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Ted Stourton – Artist of the New Renaissance

by Kevin Hurst

If the pen is mightier than the sword and a picture paints a thousand words, what would happen if a painter used his brush to communicate images of hope and inspiration?

That was the question that one rising British artist asked himself while taking in the extraordinary beauty of a seascape one afternoon a few years ago.

Fast forward a few years of intense, purposeful artistic production: the Ted Stourton collection at Camelot Castle Hotel in Tintagel, Cornwall is one of the largest collections of an artist’s work anywhere in the world.

In the last fourteen months alone, over nineteen hundred and fifty original works and paintings by Stourton have found their way into collectors’ hands across the world as demand for his work grows apace.

Currently, a permanent exhibition of nearly 1000 original paintings by Stourton can be seen at Camelot Castle Hotel where the artist currently has his studios.

A small sample of his work can be seen online here.

Many visitors to Camelot have remarked on the extraordinary effects that Ted Stourton’s work has had on them.

Artists from around the world have made their way to Camelot to meet Stourton, share their ideas, and to tap into the extraordinary creative inspiration that is being generated there. 

Visit the Ted Stourton Fan Site here
"I never really knew what beauty was. After I have seen the Light Box, I understand beauty." Visitor to Ted Stourton's Light Box


Ted Stourton's Light Box

Ted Stourton is a highly acclaimed artist who produces stunningly beautiful and evocative paintings that have been likened to the works of Matisse or Picasso in their prime.
But as well as a superb painter, he works in muli-media as well and over the past six years or so has produced many art works in various media, a steady flow of creation that emanates from his workshops in  Camelot Castle in Cornwall, England.

Many of these works now deck the homes of the rich and famous as he has become increasingly sought after by those with money to lavish on the very best that contemporary art can provide.
One such multi-media creation is Stourton's legendary and highly original "Light Box" at Camelot Castle. Experience of the Light Box by those who have savored it has been variously reported as stunning, remarkable, astounding and spiritually uplifting. It is all in all a new and invigorating aesthetic experience awaiting those adventurous souls seeking something new and original in terms of an artistic creation.
As one visitor to Ted Stourton's Light Box said,
"What an extraordinary gift of beauty and friendship Ted Stourton has bestowed on our world! He is unique, do experience this yourself."
I couldn't have put it better myself.
What is the Light Box? I doubt that even Shakespeare could do it justice and as I'm no Shakespeare I'm not even going to try.
So to find out I suggest you saddle up, ride on down to Camelot and see for yourself.
Then you'll know


About Camelot Castle
In case you were wondering, Camelot Castle Hotel is on the Atlantic coast at Tintagel in Cornwall England, the area famed for the "King Arthur" legend. It is owned by the newspaper publisher John Mappin and his wife Irina Mappin and Ted Stourton is its artist in residence, with many of his works fedecking the halls and rooms of this beautiful and impressive building.
Stourton and the Mappins have labored for several years to establish Camelot as a center and crucible for an artistic renaissance, offering free accommodation for artists and seeking to help aspiring artists of all kinds to "make it" in their chosen fields.
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