From the colours of nature to the skies above us and beyond - here's what's on offer at the latest exhibition opening at Turner Contemporary in Margate this weekend.

The sky's not the limit for astronomical artist Katie Paterson.

She's worked with NASA to recreate the smell of Saturn’s moon and the European Space Agency to send a meteorite back into space.

The Scottish artist's works, which go on show with some carefully selected works by JMW Turner this weekend, explore our relationship with the vastness and wonder of the universe.

The exhibition will also include several new commissions and 30 of Paterson’s Ideas – artworks designed to live in the imagination –interspersed with works by Turner.

Like Katie, Turner was fascinated by the wonder of nature, capturing the changing and atmospheric qualities of light, air and weather in his paintings, but he was also curious about science and the physical world.

She has selected some 20 watercolours from Tate’s collection, making connections with her own works and ideas.

She said: "It has been a great privilege to explore the preoccupation with colour, light, space and time that Turner and I share.

"In this exhibition, mountains of disappearing sand, exploding stars and constellations will connect with Turner’s renderings of moonlit rivers, erupting volcanoes and other worldly sunsets."

The exhibition will feature a special commission which aims to encompass the colour of the universe from its very beginning to its eventual end.

Working with scientists, gallery managers commissioned her to create a spinning wheel which charts the colour of the universe through each era.

It also features three new works from her series Ideas, which are designed to live in the imagination.

A new book by her will also be published to coincide with the exhibition, including more than 100 of her Ideas.

DETAILS

A place that exists only in moonlight: Katie Paterson & JMW Turner is at Turner Contemporary from Saturday, January 26 to Bank Holiday Monday, May 6. Turner Contemporary is open Tuesdays to Sundays and on bank holidays from 10am to 5pm.

Admission is free. Details at turnercontemporary.org

MARGATE'S PLUS ONE

Turner Contemporary also has a visitor who is staying through to next year.

Antony Gormley’s sculpture Another Time, was in Margate and Folkestone to mark the Folkestone Triennial last year, but Margate's - which is on the seafront on Fulsam Rock, overlooked by the gallery, will stay put until November 2020.

COMING THIS YEAR

The gallery has one of the biggest and best known art exhibitions coming later this year.

The Turner Prize 2019 exhibition will run from Saturday, September 28 to Sunday, January 12, 2020.

Every other year, the prize leaves Tate Britain and is presented at a venue outside London and the Margate gallery has been chosen this year.

Four artists will be shortlisted to win the prize based on an outstanding exhibition that has taken place in the previous year. Their names will be announced in the spring.