Ataturk's Eyes Painting

English artist Ned was born in1963. Despite gaining a BA (Hons) Architecture going on to become a DJ at London Soho’s renowned Marquee Club. His first vist to Turkey was while singing with a band touring European countries in 1988. He had always drawn and music gradually took a back seat as painting became his primary focus. Commissions, exhibitons and projects took place from Saudi Arabia to Texas to Malaysia. Ned produced his first art exhibiton in Istanbul in 1995 and over the years became increasingly invlved with the country and the Turkish people; from producing a first contemporary art exhibiton at the Grand Bazaar in 1999, ‘Istanbul? Yeah!’, to ‘Her Yer Mustafa Her Yer Kemal’ at Palladium shopping mall in 2014 where a 24 hour time lapse painting of Atatürk was broadcast on national TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHACIjlYetg One of the 7 regions of Turkey is called Pamphylia suggesting there is a historic destiny between Turkey and Pamphilon.... “The name Pamphilon can be found as far back in time as the year BC 350 when one Pamphilus is recorded as being a great painter. Another suffered in AD 309, he being a man of profound learning with regard to the Scriptures and Christian writings. It is also possible that the name could have originated from the region of Pamphylia, located along the southern coast of modern Turkey." From Pamphilon An Essex Family by Michael Coyne Ned quotes US Italian Trends Forecaster as to why music and art are powerful: “Verdi’s main objective in composing the music he did was to raise the spirit of the Italian people... it was almost a bloodless revolution. It worked. The model exists. He did it with music... calm the savage breast.” When asking why art might be importan, Ned’s favourite art critic Brian Sewell responded 04 April 2010, “I don’t know why art is necessary, only that it is. All who in the 1940’s braved bombs to see one painting in the National Gallery knew it too.”