Last 4th May, Peter Allen, presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live’s 4pm Drive programme, asked of the where abouts of Diss. A few minutes later a listener sent in an answer:
This local adage with its visual connotations is being adopted for September’s Art Trail 2010 by The Waveney Springs Art Collective: artists living within 10 miles of Diss along the Waveney Valley betwixt the Norfolk-Suffolk border. It will feature collaboration between local artists and business by placing artworks within at least 30 shop windows to highlight the art trail magic of getting closer as Diss appears:
ART IN THE OLD STABLES GALLERY – All September (reception Sat. 04 Sept)
ART IN DISS SHOP WINDOWS – All September
ART IN ARTIST’S STUDIOS – Weekends 11/12 & 18/19 Sept.
When asked about the importance of art in the community, renowned art critic Brian Sewell associates the importance of local artists with the protection of national artworks within Welsh mines during World War II:
“Tell those who doubt the value of the Waveney Springs Art Collective, that 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.” – Brian Sewell Art Critic, Sunday 04 April 2010.
Local MP Richard Bacon has agreed to walk part of the trail in September, to help highlight the local town and surrounding countryside. View the artists at www.waveneysprings.co.uk, visit their studios, the Old Stables Gallery and walk the art trail around shops in Diss. Waveney Springs particularly seek younger generations to join and energise the collective since today’s youth are tomorrows future.
Waveney Springs invite you to invite BBC Radio 5 Live’s Peter Allen on 0500 909 693, SMS 85058 or e-mail [email protected] to get closer to see Diss appearing. The concept conjures up the visual arts, science, space and time dimensions; theories of Hawking, Einstein and Nikola Tesla. If you doubt it, find WS member Ben Platts-Mills at Heaven and ask about conceptual time, the holographic universe and art awakening sleeping sections of the brain. Another WS member, Peter Knights, puts it this way:
“I am enormously proud of ‘my’ Diss and have no desire to live anywhere else. So I say, let them talk about it, let them talk about us, let them argue for and against. While they’re talking about Waveney Springs, that’s good for us all and I will tell them with pride: when you leave Redgrave and Lopham Fen and travel eastwards along the route of the River Waveney, THE CLOSER YOU GET, DISS APPEARS!” – Ned Pamphilon, Waveney Springs Art Collective PR representative Tel: 07522 032 765.
