Monday 29 September 2008

My diary Redgrave Church 01 - 29.09.2008

Continued from My Cornhill diary 04 15.09.2008

Monday 29 September 2008 - A first mention of the Redgrave gig was brought to my attention by Nilay from Istanbul; the power of internet! It is from the One Suffolk website...
http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/
Art Exhibition: Redgrave:
http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/Whatson/ArtExhibitionRedgrave.htm?lstStartDate=2008-10-03%2007:52:53Z

This afternoon I helped Ben move out from Blackthorpe Barn...

The notorious 'Dick-Head' piece below...

I want to display Ben's work with my paintings, perhaps on a return gig at Cornhill Walk. I'm suggesting we do not mention the title 'Dick-Head' at the shopping centre, but of course Ben is adamant if the piece is shown, so is the name. I adore 'The Dolphin Seat'. Thankfully, it didn't sell at Blackthorpe Barn for £3,480 so we can put the price up to £10,000 minimum. It's a superb piece.

I also love 'The McManus Wheel' and circle. The shoppers at Cornhill will love it too...

Advert for www.treesculpture.co.uk below...

Bigger Ben's assistant smaller Ben juggling...




On my way back from Heaven, while picking blackberries, Georgina from The Diss Express called resulting in a photo session with Mark Bullimore at St. Mary's Church, Redgrave...

Inside St. Mary's, the venue was a grand setting for the St. Edmund painting...

Here's a test shot before Mark arrived...


Tuesday 30 September 2008 - Andy Abbott, head of photography at Archant came round to photo 'St. Edmund' and 'Blooming Bury? Yeah!' This means I can varnish the paintings for Redgrave... Arsenal 4 Lisbon 0 - that's more like it!
ID card information for those who care to read it...
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=9428

Wednesday 01 October 2008 - There's a news report about alleged 'Holocaust-denier' Gerald Toben has been arrested at Heathrow. I find this bizarre. Why is some one arrested for an idea? We don't arrest members of the BNP for their ideas. This just doesn't seem right, even if Mr. Toben is a misguided misinformed nutter, why is he being arrested? What happened to freedom of speech? The charge is apparently based on 'denying, approving or playing down' the Holocaust...
'Holocaust denier' Gerald Toben arrested at Heathrow
Something about this isn't correct and it is the latest step that makes me question the 'official story' of the Holocaust. Does that implicate me for arrest? I'm questioning the official story of everything now-a-days. I'm not suggesting people were not killed. They quite obviously were. My friend Witold, a Polish survivor of 5 WWII concentration camps is a primary witness to murderous atrocities. I know I could, and indeed have, discussed the matter over coffee and chocolate biscuits with Witold, without being arrested...
What about the concentration camps the British ran? Africa? What about the 'genocide' of the North American Indians? What about the British conquering a 1/3 of the world? Did we simply knock on doors and say 'Excuse me old chap, would you mind awfully if we take over your territory?'

A visitor to our back garden...



Friday 03 October 2008 - Lyndon arrived 7am to load truck with paintings and exhibition materials and drive to Redgrave. Little did I know this image had been sent to press in the Diss Express for the week's issue...

Diss Express 03.10.2008, NPP at Redgrave Church...
http://www.dissexpress.co.uk/expressions/Church-hosts-art-exhibitions.4552172.jp

Go to My diary Redgrave Church 02 - 04.10.2008

Sunday 28 September 2008

PRESS RELEASE

St. Mary’s Church
present
Ned at Redgrave: St. Edmund Returns to St. Mary's

One Day – One Chance!

St. Mary’s Church, Redgrave invite you to an exhibition of artworks by Ned Pamphilon for one day only on Saturday 4th October 2008 10.00am – 5.00pm.

Ned has just completed a show at the Cornhill Walk Shopping Centre in Bury St. Edmunds where he put his first paint to canvas since being back in the UK after returning from 10 years in Turkey. He has produced a version of St. Edmund imbued with his unique sense of the unfathomed and brings the new portrait to Redgrave Church. As Ned says,
“Research about St. Mary’s Church at Redgrave informs me that ‘we know from surviving wills of parishioners that there was a chapel dedicated to St Edmund in the north aisle in 1471.’ It will be appropriate to take my portrayal of St. Edmund to Redgrave church.”

Ned’s colourful paintings inspire vibrancy and optimism; they are paintings that can make a difference to your day; come experience the painting Albert Monroe-Marilynstein changes before your eyes!

From local schools Barningham, Ixworth and Thurston to London’s Soho, he then moved abroad. Entirely English artist Ned Pamphilon has returned from years based in Istanbul where he began his public art life presenting the first ever contemporary art exhibition within the famous 500 year old shopping centre known as the Grand Bazaar. Indeed, he is more familiar with showing his work in shopping centres, hotels and public venues than conventional art galleries, bringing diverse subject matter directly to the public encapsulating themes from Churchill to SpongeBob SquarePants, Santa to saucers; real to surreal.

Ned departed Turkey leaving behind the biggest public portrait of the nation’s founder, “Ataturk Smiling” installed at Istanbul’s Lutfi Kirdar Conference & Exhibition Centre, plus numerous artworks in the public and private domain around the world. His most ambitious aim to date was the Istanbul Bosphorus Rainbow Bridge project. Cited in the Turkish media as an unofficial cultural ambassador, Ned frequently exhibited and painted with children and adults in schools, universities, hotels and shopping centres.

“The most obstinately provocative painter I know.”
Brian Sewell, art critic The London Evening Standard

“He’s the painting wizard.”
Eloise Willcox, Barningham Primary School, aged 4

With my great life experience from happiness through misery and ultimate incarceration in Concentration Camps to the very happy present....... I have the right to judge Ned's credibility, being still very young yet cultivating his talent as a very original painter. It took him 10 years of hard work in Turkey.
Now he will build his future very quickly and even the keepers of the Bosphorus Bridge might come back to him crying: "Ned please come back and paint the Rainbow on its underside."
I urge people to come to this unique one-man show. I have seen it three times in Coney Weston - it opened my eyes. WHAT A TALENT!!
Witold Kasicki, aged 88, Veteran of 2nd World War

Saturday 27 September 2008

Artist's Statement

NPP : NED PAMPHILON PRODUCTIONS : ARTIST'S STATEMENT

St. Mary’s Church, Redgrave Saturday 04 October 2008

I've returned home after more than a decade abroad. In the short term I intend to paint themes inspired by Suffolk, Norfolk, East Anglia and eventually Great Britain. I am open to new sponsors, collaborators and content to avoid the conventional gallery circuit unless a gallery proposes serious intent, desire and financial imagination. St. Mary's Church, Redgrave provides a perfect venue for NPP: a community venue managed by the community for the community; plus it's just so wonderfully, glamourous, beautiful, spiritual, spacious...

I'm selling cards and posters produced in Istanbul at a £1 each and today donating 50% of these to St. Mary's funds. I have a limited selection of photo-block reproductions from Istanbul at £25+ and also donating 50% of these. My original paintings artworks are my proverbial 'babies' and the prices is in the £thousands. You may find them unaffordably expensive. You may consider them assured investments at very reasonable prices. The moment you turn an ignition key in a new car, which probably cost more money than the price of one of my paintings, the value of the car may well instantly lose at least £1,000. Anything purchased signed 'Ned' will be an ever increasing valuable asset. At the time of typing, my paintings may be a more secure investment than the cash in your bank account. 10% of an agreed sale of an original painting made today will be donated to St. Mary's.

“The most obstinately provocative painter I know.”
Brian Sewell, art critic The London Evening Standard

Though few people in the UK today will realise it, I suppose an Englishman installing a 3.5m high Smiling Ataturk into Istanbul’s Lutfi Kirdar Conference & Exhibition Centre is potentially more controversial than a dead shark in tank of formaldehyde or an unmade soiled bed. Just proposing the painting of 7 colours of the rainbow underneath the Bosphorus Bridge has apparently been too controversial for the current Turkish government. The relevance of some work only becomes realised with time, not that I crave to be relevant or controversial. I desire to sell artwork to generate income to enable the creation of further artwork. I've have employed many people to reach this point; to display these paintings here today. Be in no doubt, mine is a business and the aim is to employ more people and attain higher prices for my artwork.

To those who might ask what does any painting 'mean'? Take a look! It means whatever it tells you.

I live, therefore I am, therefore I am aware of our political world. I am powerful and so are you. The alternative is not to be powerful, so I must believe that together we can make a difference and change the system where required. Yes, I'm fed up with the political direction of the world. Yes, I would withdraw British troops from all war zones. Yes, I suspect 'free energy' exists and some one somewhere is not telling the rest of us. Yes, I support Ben Platts-Mills STARCH campaign: Start Taxing All Refined Carbo-Hydrates. Yes, it is fun promoting St. Edmund and the place named after him where the Charter of Liberties was allegedly signed which allegedly pathed the way for the Magna Carta. Yes, I'd reform income tax as recommended by US Republican Ron Paul. Yes, I suspect the Bank of England is a private company, not a 'public bank of the English people'.

If I were Prime Minister I'd implement a policy for well designed public toilets on every street corner; reform our ridiculous coloured bin system and sanction dustbin men and women, the rag and bone industry and scrap yard merchants to manage and the work in a professional manner. In Turkey you can leave anything in the street and it soon disappears. They were recycling well before (David) Blood and (Al) Gore came along with their 'carbon tax' business. If I were in charge I'd introduce Nikola Tesla to all school science lessons; teach awareness that Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas; liberate the awareness and teaching of our sexual energy; legalise and exploit the the energy and health giving properties of the hemp plant; create awareness whereby the electorate wake up and realise there is no discernible difference between McCain, Obama, Clinton, Bush nor Blair. They apparently all lie. Outside my own local village hall there stands a memorial. The names from Bloomfield to Brothers to Hogg represent young people who died believing they were putting their lives on the line for their families, friends and future generations. I understand that when Winston Churchill warned Parliament from the back benches of the impending danger of Hitler, many of his fellow MP’s derided him; suggesting the silly old fool shut up and retire. In previous years I vocally supported Blair and Bush’s invasion of Iraq, believing, according to the information laid before me, there was justification. I now feel ashamed and rather stupid for voicing such opinion as I did, for example, at Turkish dinner tables. I now support the call for an instant withdrawal from Afghanistan, Iraq and that ‘we’ stop being the policemen of the world.

I demand at least a new enquiry into the events of 9/11. I ask that suspicions be addressed regarding those THREE steel structured buildings being blown-up by controlled explosions. I question whether the destruction of those 3 buildings was caused solely by aeroplane collision; it seems unlikely that fire could have pulverised such steel structured buildings. I call upon editors of all media outlets; including local Bury, Diss and Thetford newspapers, to stand up and be counted; to do their duty and as Churchill voiced his concerns over the Third Reich, for us to voice our concerns over a similar movement active today, but wearing a different face.

I do not know the whole truth. How could I? But, I do know our politicians and media are presenting daily tosh and nonsense; I demand a re-evaluation of the path our society is taking today. Our children are tomorrow’s future and we must ensure they realise a peaceful and healthy future.

Yes, I am so happy Arsene Wenger is the manager of Arsenal; mum is Norfolk-Suffolk gal, but dad is from London and I am inherently an Arsenal fan like my dad and his dad before him.

As for UFO's – I love them! There was a significant UFO case at nearby Rendlesham Forest about which Georgina Bruni (1947 – 19 January 2008) had a book You Can't Tell The People published in hardback by Sidgwick & Jackson in November 2000 and paperback by Pan Macmillan in November 2001. The title comes from a quotation by Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister at the time of the events, who told the author in 1997 at a cocktail party: "UFOs! You must get your facts right and you can't tell the people". Just ask Paul Hellyer, the ex Defence Minister of Canada; while he's still alive. Surely, as any sensible military Chief of Staff would do, we should have a peaceful and rational policy for ET contact – just in case. Indeed, the answer for all of us can only be love, peace and to understand the concept of living at a higher vibration... Everything that exists is an energy field, a unique vibrational pattern of energy created by thought and emotion. All that exists is the same energy, but these infinite patterns create infinite forms, just as water can manifest as liquid, clouds, steam and ice. They look and feel very different, but they are still water in different forms. Some energy patterns manifest as the human body, others the human mind, still others the birds, trees, insects, water, sky and air. At the level of pure energy everything is connected to everything else. There is no us and them, only we and ultimately "I".

Turkey has been a big influence for me. Their national slogan is, as bequeathed by the man who founded the Turkish Republic in 1923:
Yurtta Barış, Dunyada Barış - Peace at Home, Peace in the World.

In 1930 Ataturk wrote:
"Freedom consists of man's ability to do what he thinks and desires without any influence or intervention by others. This is the broadest definition of the concept. Mankind has never attained liberty to this extent and never will because as is known, men are creations of nature and nature itself is not absolutely free either; it is subject to universal laws."

I trust you enjoy this exhibition. Thank you to the community of Redgrave for allowing me this opportunity in this wonderful venue; an example for us all. Congratulations Redgrave.

Best wishes,
Ned Pamphilon
(girl's name PAM, boy's name PHIL, they bang a gong, get it ON, as in T Rex)