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?

Ted Stourton

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.

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. 

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.

Visit the Ted Stourton Fan Site here

Ted Stourton's Masterpiece has Pride of Place in Cardone Mansion

If you had the foresight to buy or stock and hold one or more of the artist Ted Stourton's wonderful paintings as part of your fine art portfolio, you are in good company.


This is a picture of US TV Matriarch Joan Rivers with Grant Cardone in the main Living Room of Grant's Palatial mansion in the Hollywood Hills.


In pride of place is Ted Stourton's masterpiece "Friendship Into Eternity," which is one of the "Friendship" series he created in his studios at Camelot Castle.


Joan River's assistant called Camelot Castle, which is in "King Arthur Country" in Tintagel on the Cornish coast, to ask to use the image as part of a new show in which Grant Cardone and his mansion were featured.

Grant is a one of the alumni of the Camelot Castle Icons of the Future Programme. Famous now in the US as the "Turnaround King," he clearly has a keen eye for art as well as one of the brightest business minds of the age.


Rumour has it that Grant is about to upgrade his house in LA to an even bigger one and so this house in LA that was once owned by Lionel Ritchie and was considered by the Beckhams as their possible residence is now on the market at $18million.


Grant Cardone is a firm friend of the founders and illuminating minds of the Camelot Castle project, John Mappin, Irina Mappin and Ted Stourton. In  LA recently seeing some of Stourton's other collectors, the Mappins had the great pleasure of dining with Grant and his beautiful wife Elena at the Cardones' palatial home. It has one of the best views of any house in the Hollywood Hills and the Mappins came away with the firm opinion that it is cheap at $18 million.

Of course the house sale is unlikely to include Ted Stourton's masterpiece. I doubt that Grant Cardone will be in any hurry to sell that painting any time soon, considering how value of the artist's stock is rising ... but you can try an offer for it if you have a few million to invest wisely.

You can watch the aforementioned Joan Rivers interview here and notice as you view the clip how Stourton's painting has pride of place, favoured with the the best position in the best room of the main house.


And Grant Cardone is quite a phenomenon in his own right too. You can find out about him at www.grantcardone.com.


Friendship is a very powerful thing, the glue that holds our society together and when you make a friend of Camelot you have a stalwart ally from there on out.

And vice versa, I think.........