The Art of A Traveler

As summer is coming to an end, the fall is creeping in which means winter is around the corner. Already thinking about jumping on a plane to a new place to escape to, I thought today I would address our natural inquisitiveness to travel, to visit places, people and cultures other than our own.

Away from home we see ordinary things differently – a local hardware store, side street, service station, avenue of trees. There is no doubt that our outlook is broadened by the experience and our un-jaded eye finds art that reflects this. One of the attractions of traveling is the moment of coming home. With these keener eyes our home becomes somewhere to re-create those places and cultures we visited, so that the experience is ongoing and the influences persist.

Actual traveler or not, creating your chosen world in a room broadens horizons and interest. If you were to make a point always of bringing home a piece of original art – a canvas, a print a small piece of sculpture – you would soon accumulate a rich art collection to enjoy, each pieces with a story to tell.

Don’t forget, when looking at a work on canvas far from home, that it is relatively simple to have the canvas removed from the wooden frame. Roll it up for the journey and have it re-stretched once on home ground. Bigger or heavier pieces can be shipped; prints can be easily carried in a hard tube.