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Stewart Orr: The Art of Travel Free

11 Sep – 19 Oct 2010

Exhibition

Quay Arts

Sea Street
Newport Harbour
Isle of Wight
PO30 5BD

01983 822490

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Stewart Orr: The Art of Travel Free

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Stewart orr

Sat 11 Sep – Sat 16 Oct | Preview: Sat 11 Sep 6 – 8pm All Welcome

The Art of Travel is an exhibition of contemporary art inspired by travel. For Stewart Orr travel is a passion, a way of life – and work too, part of his profession as an artist.

Stewart’s travelling serves a single purpose: he is always seeking ideas and images for his paintings. It is never an easy task. He does not sit before a landscape with a sketch pad. For Stewart art is not about a single captured image.

It is practical experience distilled into images. For a single painting one must see many cities, people, landscapes, objects. One must be able to think back to journeys in exotic lands, to sleeping in unfamiliar places, to lying at anchor on foreign shores.

Stewart studied Graphic Design at Hull College of Art in the late sixties. He worked in London as an Art Director for International Publishing Corporation for a decade before switching from publishing into advertising.

He became Creative Director for a series of advertising agencies and finally ran his own agency in Soho Square. He has been a full-time artist since he moved to the Island in 1994.

Stewart’s home and studio are on the Isle of Wight. In the summer he lives on a sailing boat in Greece.

Stewart has travelled extensively within Europe, Africa, Asia, the Far East and the Americas. He has explored most of the coastline of Turkey from Antalya to Istanbul and virtually all of Greece and its islands under sail.

His paintings are about all of these places. He does not paint or sketch while he is away. He collects visual and colour reference instead – mainly in the form of thousands of photographs, but sometimes in the form of postcards, books, and interesting ephemera: badges, toys, political propaganda - and of course, countless memories - all of which he distils into his work when he returns home.



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