CAMELOT CASTLE SPECIAL Westminster Issue 10,178 1.10p 36 INDEPENDENTLondon’s International Newspaper www.londonlocals.co.uk WHY WE HELP ARTISTS AT CAMELOT CASTLE by David Edwards Fine Arts Editor Irina Kudrenok-Ablakova-Mappin WHO REALLY IS IRINA So what is an artist? some would say, to excess, by “An artist is that mankind. We now have access to KUDRENOK-ABLAKOVA-MAPPIN? The best definition that we are aware of all the volume of communication is “An artist is that person who delivers or cre- person that that we could possibly need. ... AND WHAT IS THE GREATER ates a higher quality of communication.” delivers or Fortunes have been CANVASS OF CAMELOT CASTLE? There has been, for many centuries, an made and speed records broken ongoing race across civilizations that has now creates a higher in that game but the game of Indeed, what is an artist really? This is a question that has been won. This was the race of “Quantity of communication quantity has been asked down through the centuries. Students have Communication”. And, as the digital age has flow- quality of observably peaked. asked this of their teachers. Teachers have asked it of their ered, many among us who are part of that digital students. Audiences have asked it of each other, and per- age can acknowledge that the race for quantity of communication.” haps most importantly artists have asked it of themselves. communication is now well and truly played out, Cont... P.02 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR POSITIVE NEWS UPDATE WWW.CAMELOTCASTLE.COM 2 INDEPENDENT LOCALS WWW.LONDONLOCALS.CO.UK 020 8961 3345 INDEPENDENT LOCALS 3 Irina Kudrenok-Ablakova- Mappin in Couture by Royal Designer Elizabeth Emanuel The Kazan Tsarina Sujumbike 1516-1564 was personally schooled and educated in Art, Beauty and the higher Sciences of Aesthetics by His Noble Excellency Ablak Your canvas is your future... The next needed race or game or evolutionary step upwards for of the beauty of Moscow and Russia is today a testimony to mankind that has presented itself is the game of “Quality of that work and the powerful philosophy that we as a family Communication”. have maintained and continue to forward.” What is the price or value of a kind communica- “Our forefathers upheld the importance of beauty, aesthet- tion with a friend? Or the value of a unique encounter with ics and its relationship to life, and our family have fostered one that one loves? And how can we actively increase these into being a higher quality of communication for centuries. qualities in Life? My grandfather, Commissar Ablakov, who was one of the few members of the Russian intelligentsia to speak and write These questions are indeed, the new frontier for an fluent Arabic, helped the governing bodies of his area shape adventurer or for the true explorer of Life. the country now known as Kazakhstan and other parts of the broader Soviet Union. (In his time part of the area now But this is not a new game, it is a game that has known as Kazakhstan was known as the “Virgin Lands” been maintained and catalyzed by a few iconic beings over and was part of the Soviet Union). Even at the height of many thousands of years. communist rule and while my grandfather was a Senior Soviet Official he maintained his international connections At Camelot Castle and across its and contacts all over the world associated group of companies one sees and right across Soviet Russia. today dedication to activities that rapidly He was known and loved for enhance the quality of communication and “Ted Stourton the quality of his letters and Irina Kudrenok-Ablakova-Mappin is today overall quality of his commu- at the forefront of this new surge towards brings light nication. ” Quality of Communication. Her insights into art and the importance of artists follow “Camelot Castle is in that tradition. and truth unique for several reasons but in my opinion one of its most In a rare interview granted to this valuable qualities is the magi- newspaper Irina Kudrenok-Ablakova- through his cal and priceless effect that it Mappin gives us insight into her expansive has on the creative mind and strategy for Camelot. on the creative minds of the Art” people who come here and “Our early family ancestors were experience it.” among the educators that imparted and endued the spirit of creativity into the Ruling Houses of Russia. My ancestor His Irina first discovered Ted Stourton as an Artist at the Noble Excellency Ablak was educated in Cairo in the wis- beginning of this millennium in the spring of the year 2001. doms of Eastern aesthetic science and brought that wisdom “From the moment I saw Ted Stourton’s paintings I recog- back to Russia. He was the teacher and venerated wise advi- nized his raw talent. I noticed Ted’s staggering potential in sor to the Tsarina Sujumbike (1516-1564) and the Court of his first exhibition.” Ivan IV Vasilyevich, the first Ruler to be crowned as “Tsar of all Russia” and better known in history as Ivan the Terrible. “In fact, we acquired, for our family collection, the Into that court His Noble Excellency Ablak endued the piv- first ever painting of Ted’s that sold at exhibition.” otal ideas of beauty that would come to shape the style of a nation. The construction of the city St Petersburg and much “We now manage the Ted Stourton creative portfolio.” 4 INDEPENDENT LOCALS WWW.LONDONLOCALS.CO.UK 020 8961 3345 INDEPENDENT LOCALS 5 WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.... John and Irina Kudrenok-Ablacova-Mappin on filming "The Secret of Camelot" during the Celebration of President Nazarbayev's Birthday at Camelot Castle. The Tsarina Sujumbike “As standalone pieces they are enough to warrant effect is strengthening each and every day.” admiration in any home or museum but as a collec- tion and as a body of work they are absolutely unri- “So why do we help artists at Camelot Castle?” valed.” “In my opinion, this is the most important collec- “We have seen for ourselves what the work of just tion and portfolio of Art today either in the West or one artist can do. We understand the power of a person who in the East.” has a Sphere of Influence working in the field of Aesthetics. As a result of our Artists in Residence Program and our Icons “Ted’s message and the simple power of what he of the Future Program which help the finest talent connect has done and will continue to do are unique and can with the finest teachers we have seen new artists get up and be summed up in four words....” running with viable long term careers. And we have ana- “There is light, there is truth and then there are bringers of lyzed in detail the effect of the creation of aesthetics on the light and truth through Art” “The Value of Friendship” entire culture and civilization.” “It simply works to help and encourage beauty to “Ted Stourton brings light and truth through his Art” “It has been my personal privilege to oversee and wit- come into being.” ness the years of production from Ted’s studios at Camelot Irina Kudrenok-Ablakova-Mappin has indeed been Castle and I know what his work as an artist has achieved.” “This is a factor that is worth understanding and it the mind behind much of Ted Stourton’s success in the is worth understanding it well.” International art world. She is a creative muse for Ted and “I have seen original paintings by Ted Stouton sell to for several other powerful collectors from all over the world.” Irina Kudrenok-Ablakova-Mappin concluded her international artists and private interview with this observation: while she remains almost “Additionally I have seen many collectors of his completely in the background “We support work have both a creative experience and a person- “We help artists at Camelot Castle because artists and has little interest in per- al and deeply spiritual connection, directly as a have, as their canvass, all of the future of creation and sonal publicity, her formida- the creation result of collecting his work.” future history and often have a will with which to change ble mind is primary in the the destiny of our culture for the better. We support the cre- exceptional expansion that is of true beauty “I know that when someone connects with Ted as ation of true beauty in all its forms.” occurring from Camelot an artist, sometimes at the deepest possible level Castle. in all its they have experienced this lifetime, something “By visiting us at Camelot Castle, you, by simply “It simply works to extremely magical and quite priceless can occur that being here, are helping artists, and so it gives us our great- Her view of how she often changes their life for the better and helps them est pleasure to welcome you here. By being here you are help and encourage sees Ted Stourton’s ascen- forms” and others tremendously.” effectively being an artist too and helping with that great dancy in the art world is both canvass of the future....the divine creation itself.” beautifully dynamic and “We have received thousands of letters from his beauty to come into powerful. friends all over the world that document this.” Take some time to nurture your creativity and that of others while you are at Camelot Castle.... you may be being” “Ted Stourton’s work represents the pinnacle of intel- “What particularly excites me personally is how quite glad that you did.