Miles From Here

Travel broadens the mind and never more so than when you combine it with an artist’s imagination and sensibility. When you buy art that has been inspired by travel and far off locations, you become an arm chair traveller in your own home, voyaging into the imaginary and real places of the world.

In the 18th and 19th century Brit artists packed up their watercolours and straw hats and hurried off on a grand tour of Europe, furiously sketching and recording the landscape and cities as they went. These days artists are more likely to find inspiration back-packing round Thailand or heading off into the Australian outback.

For some it is the journey itself that weaves a spell, for others it’s the destination; the dream beach, the ultimate sunset, the alien city, the view from the highest peak. Images miles from here brought to a wall near you.