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

Why Help Artists

John Mappin and Irina Mappin have created a unique project at Camelot Castle, near Tintagel in Cornwall, England that is breathtaking in its imaginative scope.

If one considers that a civilisation is in good health to the degree that it has imaginative and capable artists, then what is happening at Camelot may well be something akin to alchemy, from which is being patiently spun the glowing fabric of a new Golden Age.

In this article, John and Irina Mappin let us in on the secret behind the magic. And the "secret" turns out to be the cement that holds together the building blocks of all civilisation:help.



Unlocking The Door to Artistic Viability


How can I survive or make it doing the thing that I love doing the most?


How could I truly survive better by being an artist?


These two questions are probably the two most often asked questions of the creatively inclined and sadly these are the two main questions that are completely ignored at Art Schools around the world or at Film Schools or generally at any other school that teaches the artistic disciplines.


The truth is most Art and Film school teachers simply don’t know the answer.


Such schools focus in on what to create as an art form and how to technically create that form which in our experience, save the basic necessity of knowing technically how to create one’s art form, is actually the furthest thing away from an artist’s mind on a daily basis.


True artists tend to know these things already or with practice and love of their art form will be able to achieve those technical abilities for themselves in time. But how to be viable is something that is very often completely unknown by an artist.


We are often asked what is it that we are doing to help artists and HOW exactly is it that we achieve this.


This short explanation is a bit like trying to sum up a lifetime of experience in a few sentences but, we hope it helps you understand how it is that very often as a result of a visit to Camelot Castle an artist’s future success can be immeasurably changed for the better.


Often by just one introduction to the right person.


In one sentence....We help artists become VIABLE.


For an artist, in living life, as well as being creative, MUST have excellent entrepreneurial and administrative skills and MUST understand the factors that make him or her viable and will result in an increasing income that is greater than their outgoings.


The founders of Camelot Castle had the good fortune to live in creative environments for many years, one of those being Hollywood, and have worked with and alongside some of the most successful artists in the Film Business and in the fine art world.


They have interacted with artists for most of their working lives. Over that time they have had the unique opportunity to isolate and observe some of the truly successful actions that result in immediate and long term viability.


We have seen what successful artists do as successful actions and we know what works.


THE SEVEN BASIC DIVISIONS
As stated, the very last thing that an artist generally needs to be told to do or advised on is how to create or what to create and it turns out that these two functions of how and what to create only represent roughly one seventh of the functions needed to make an artist viable and successful in life.


For there are SEVEN basic actions or divisions of function that need to happen in order for an artist to start to achieve growth and to be completely viable with a stable life and career.


At Camelot Castle we know what these seven divisions are. We know exactly how they work and how they link to each other and we make sure that the artists that come to us for help know exactly what these divisions are and can then take actions in all seven of those divisions. We show artists where they can get that knowledge and help them get it.


At Camelot we believe in helping get the best possible talent together


with the best possible teachers and in getting that talent the actual information that they need to become VIABLE right now or as fast as possible.....and while there are no guarantees of success... often this knowledge is deeply appreciated by an artist and very needed.


We think it is quite urgent.


For how many great masters of art and creativity have we as mankind and a culture lost down through the centuriesbecause they could simply not understand HOW to be VIABLE.


So, in simple terms, we give artists the knowledge that they need to succeed on their own and enjoy the freedoms that they deserve through their art.


And that’s just one of the ways that we help artists at Camelot Castle.


Thank you for being here and helping us with this project.


We appreciate your friendship.



Find out more about John Mappin, Irina Mappin, Ted Stourton and Camelot Castle 






email for more information:

enquiries@camelotcastle.com

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