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	Brian and Nell Panter came to Loosley Row in 1962, having purchased '[[Woodway Cottage]]', -the house on the bank facing down [[Woodway]].		Brian and Nell Panter came to Loosley Row in 1962, having purchased '[[Woodway Cottage]]', -the house on the bank facing down [[Woodway]].

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	'''Hallmark Advertisement.''' Brian Panter advertised lessons in Voice Promotion in October 1983		'''Hallmark Advertisement.''' Brian Panter advertised lessons in Voice Promotion in October 1983
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		+	'''Brian Panter''' was the representative for [[Lacey Green Productions]] on the [[Village Hall Committee]] in 1995.

	'''Hallmark October 1986.''' '''Brian Panter – Painter and Sculptor''' by [[Miles Marshall]]		'''Hallmark October 1986.''' '''Brian Panter – Painter and Sculptor''' by [[Miles Marshall]]

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	'''Hallmark June 1983'''. [[Parish Council]] Election. Brian Panter was returned unopposed. Also returned 1991.		'''Hallmark June 1983'''. [[Parish Council]] Election. Brian Panter was returned unopposed. Also returned 1991.
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		+	'''Hallmark Advertisement.''' Brian Panter advertised lessons in Voice Promotion in October 1983

	'''Hallmark October 1986.''' '''Brian Panter – Painter and Sculptor''' by [[Miles Marshall]]		'''Hallmark October 1986.''' '''Brian Panter – Painter and Sculptor''' by [[Miles Marshall]]

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 [[File:Brian Panter.jpg|thumb]]
-Brian and Nell Panter came to Loosley Row in 1962, having purchased The house on the bank facing down Woodway.
+Brian and Nell Panter came to Loosley Row in 1962, having purchased '[[Woodway Cottage]]', -the house on the bank facing down [[Woodway]].
 They were probably best known for their involvement with Lacey Green Productions, an amateur theatrical group which gave their profits to charity.
-'''Hallmark June 1983'''.   [[Parish Council]] Election.   Brian Panter was returned unopposed.
+'''Hallmark June 1983'''.   [[Parish Council]] Election.   Brian Panter was returned unopposed.  Also returned 1991.
 '''Hallmark October 1986.'''    '''Brian Panter – Painter and Sculptor'''   by [[Miles Marshall]]

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	They were probably best known for their involvement with Lacey Green Productions, an amateur theatrical group which gave their profits to charity.		They were probably best known for their involvement with Lacey Green Productions, an amateur theatrical group which gave their profits to charity.
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		+	'''Hallmark June 1983'''. [[Parish Council]] Election. Brian Panter was returned unopposed.

	'''Hallmark October 1986.''' '''Brian Panter – Painter and Sculptor''' by [[Miles Marshall]]		'''Hallmark October 1986.''' '''Brian Panter – Painter and Sculptor''' by [[Miles Marshall]]

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 In this issue, Brian Panter joins my 'Gallery of Local Craftsmen and Craftswomen' although he is probably better known in the village for his contributions to village drama in one form or another.   Particularly perhaps through the work he has done for ‘[[Lacey Green Productions]]’, that splendid, independent, village organisation, founded and led by Julia Beaumont, which whilst working to raise money for very worthy causes, also provides our village with such excellent entertainment.
-Many readers will remember with great pleasure, 'Joseph and his Technicolour Dream Coat' and 'The Wizard of Oz' both performed by Lacey Green Productions, whilst the vociferous boastings of the famous ‘Toad of Toad Hall' are still ringing in our ears! A great bonus of these large cast musical performances is the discovery of latent and often unsuspected talents for singing and acting amongst members of the community of all ages. Anything which is performed with such obvious enjoyment must be a treat for the audience.
+Many readers will remember with great pleasure, 'Joseph and his Technicolour Dream Coat' and 'The Wizard of Oz' both performed by [[Lacey Green Productions]], whilst the vociferous boastings of the famous ‘Toad of Toad Hall' are still ringing in our ears! A great bonus of these large cast musical performances is the discovery of latent and often unsuspected talents for singing and acting amongst members of the community of all ages. Anything which is performed with such obvious enjoyment must be a treat for the audience.
 Brian's wife Nell is a Stage director of the group so it is natural that Brian, himself a one-time actor, should also become involved in various aspects of production. As another engagement on the latter occasion prevented her from directing, Brian co-directed with Valerie Brookhouse and also under the traditional stage name 'Walter Plinge' played the Usher in the court scene besides designing the scenery. With able and willing assistants he actually painted most of it too.

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 They were probably best known for their involvement with Lacey Green Productions, an amateur theatrical group which gave their profits to charity.
-Hallmark October 1986 '''Brian Panter – Painter and Sculptor'''   by [[Miles Marshall]]
+'''Hallmark October 1986.'''    '''Brian Panter – Painter and Sculptor'''   by [[Miles Marshall]]
 Many readers will remember with great pleasure, 'Joseph and his Technicolour Dream Coat' and 'The Wizard of Oz' both performed by Lacey Green Productions, whilst the vociferous boastings of the famous ‘Toad of Toad Hall' are still ringing in our ears! A great bonus of these large cast musical performances is the discovery of latent and often unsuspected talents for singing and acting amongst members of the community of all ages. Anything which is performed with such obvious enjoyment must be a treat for the audience.
 Brian's wife Nell is a Stage director of the group so it is natural that Brian, himself a one-time actor, should also become involved in various aspects of production. As another engagement on the latter occasion prevented her from directing, Brian co-directed with Valerie Brookhouse and also under the traditional stage name 'Walter Plinge' played the Usher in the court scene besides designing the scenery. With able and willing assistants he actually painted most of it too.
-The Panters are both involved in the ‘Open Book' another performing group which works both in the village and elsewhere to raise funds for a variety of charities and which arose from the ashes of the Hampden House Arts Association, founded in 1979. It was a briefly very successful Organisation which was only short lived because it was left homeless and dispirited on the unhappy demise of Hampden House School. A small group however from its Twelfth Night production company came together with a determination to prolong their enjoyable and successful association and have already made good their intentions. But I Stray from my subject which is Brian's undoubted gifts of perception, sensitivity and craftsmanship as painter and sculptor.
+He has been drawing and painting all his life and is an inveterate sketcher. He goes nowhere without his pocket sketchblock and a pencil. He will sketch anything which excites his attention and will while away a boring meeting with lightening drawings of any character in the room who makes a suitable subject. His unwitting sitters may also be fellow customers in some foreign cafe or an English pub - no-one is safe!    But often his interest will be aroused by animals; perhaps more often by horses but also by dogs and other creatures.
 Brian certainly has a deep feeling for and love of the Buckinghamshire countryside in its widely contrasting characters, from the Vale to the Chiltern Hills. His interest is caught not only by the form of the hills and valleys, the woods and trees but also by the effect of changing light and weather conditions on the landscapes, which he paints in watercolours, oils and the newish acrylic paints too. I was interested to learn that acrylic paints are also useful in painting stage scenery and that emulsion paint is also used for this purpose.
 Besides his thoughtful and expressive landscapes and seascapes too, for he has a notable understanding of Ships and the sea, Brian has done much life drawing and painting and it may have been through this particular interest that he has developed his great skill in plastic sculptures or modelling. The subjects of this sculpture/portraiture range from ships to dogs but with particular emphasis on horses. Brian keeps an old and faithful horse which he rides and with whom he enjoys a special relationship of mutual trust and regard. I am sure this old retainer deserves at least some of the credit for the deep understanding of horses which shows up clearly enough in the charming sketch we have selected for our cover drawing and which must have helped too in achieving such lively and delightful action portraits of horses both with and without riders.
 He started modelling in Plasticine some 25 years ago but of late has been using a new development of this material (not yet on sale to the public) which has the useful property of remaining malleable indefinitely until it is cured and hardened by a moderate heat treatment.
 Although the finished sculpture is quite hard and rigid, during the modelling and curing process it must have the support of an internal metal framework or ‘armature' particularly if it is of a running or jumping horse with less than four feet on the ground. The thicker parts of the body must also be stiffened by the inclusion of other material to prevent sagging during the initial stages of the heat treatment which at first has a softening effort on the plastic. Once hardened the sculpture is ready for painting or at this stage it may alternatively be moulded for casting in metal or ceramic material.
 Whilst in landscape painting, the choice of colour range or the selection of the artist's palette is usually a matter of artistic expression, the colouring of these sculptures tends to follow nature quite closely. The painting is delicately executed and the result is a gripping realism which can capture a fleeting moment of exquisite pleasure. A permanent reminder of perhaps a much-loved steed or faithful dog long after its comparatively brief life-span is ended. Such three-dimensional portraits are usually commissioned though on occasion Brian has followed some irresistible urge to record some particular horse or horse and rider for instance one elderly servant who was a living caricature, straight from Dickens or Anthony Trollope, who has been most faithfully portrayed from his pinched old face to his faded hunting pink and his seedy old mount.
-The cost of these sculptures must vary according to the work involved but a horse and rider such as I have described starts around £150. A horse without rider or a dog would obviously cost less. He showed me two lovely studies of a retriever dog and a small pony.
+But Brian is by no means obsessed with horses and I saw a major work of modelling, which has entailed some 54 years work: an action portrait of H.M.S. Bluebell some two and a half feet long (1/72 scale) a Corvette, in fact a sister ship to one in which Brian served for some time during the war as a gunner.   Rather more of his wartime service was spent in defensively armed merchant ships on convoy duty, on one occasion he was in a disguised and armed tanker, carrying both oil and ammunition when it was torpedoed but that is another story.   Suffice it to say that Brian was sufficiently intimately acquainted with the detail and routine of a Corvette to portray H.M.S. Bluebell with incredible accuracy, even to the deployment on deck of the ship's duty crew at a particular point of the watch.
-But Brian is by no means obsessed with horses and I saw a major work of modelling, which has entailed some 54 years work: an action portrait of H.M.S. Bluebell some two and a half feet long (1/72 scale) a Corvette, in fact a sister ship to one in which Brian served for some time during the war as a gunner. Rather more of his wartime service was spent in defensively armed merchant ships on convoy duty, on one occasion he was in a disguised and armed tanker, carrying both oil and ammunition when it was torpedoed but that is another story. Suffice it to say that Brian was sufficiently intimately acquainted with the detail and routine of a Corvette to portray H.M.S. Bluebell with incredible accuracy, even to the deployment on deck of the ship's duty crew at a particular point of the watch.
 '''Nell died in 1990'''.   Jane Tyrer, a member of the group, published a tribute in Hallmark.   See [[1990 Obituary Nell Panter of Lacey Green Productions]].

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	They were probably best known for their involvement with Lacey Green Productions, an amateur theatrical group which gave their profits to charity.		They were probably best known for their involvement with Lacey Green Productions, an amateur theatrical group which gave their profits to charity.
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		+	Hallmark October 1986 '''Brian Panter – Painter and Sculptor''' by [[Miles Marshall]]
		+
		+	In this issue, Brian Panter joins my 'Gallery of Local Craftsmen and Craftswomen' although he is probably better known in the village for his contributions to village drama in one form or another. Particularly perhaps through the work he has done for ‘Lacey Green Productions’, that splendid, independent, village organisation, founded and led by Julia Beaumonts, which whilst working to raise money for a very worthy cause, The Helen “House Hospice in Oxford, which cares for terminally ill children, also provides our village with such excellent entertainment.
		+
		+
		+	Many readers will remember with great pleasure, 'Joseph and his Technicolour Dream Coat' and 'The Wizard of Oz' both performed by Lacey Green Productions, whilst the vociferous boastings of the famous ‘Toad of Toad Hall' are still ringing in our ears! A great bonus of these large cast musical performances is the discovery of latent and often unsuspected talents for singing and acting amongst members of the community of all ages. Anything which is performed with such obvious enjoyment must be a treat for the audience.
		+
		+
		+	Brian's wife Nell is a Stage director of the group so it is natural that Brian, himself a one-time actor, should also become involved in various aspects of production. As another engagement on the latter occasion prevented her from directing, Brian co-directed with Valerie Brookhouse and also under the traditional stage name 'Walter Plinge' played the Usher in the court scene besides designing the scenery. With able and willing assistants he actually painted most of it too.
		+
		+
		+	The Panters are both involved in the ‘Open Book' another performing group which works both in the village and elsewhere to raise funds for a variety of charities and which arose from the ashes of the Hampden House Arts Association, founded in 1979. It was a briefly very successful Organisation which was only short lived because it was left homeless and dispirited on the unhappy demise of Hampden House School. A small group however from its Twelfth Night production company came together with a determination to prolong their enjoyable and successful association and have already made good their intentions. But I Stray from my subject which is Brian's undoubted gifts of perception, sensitivity and craftsmanship as painter and sculptor.
		+
		+
		+	He has been drawing and painting all his life and is an inveterate sketcher. He goes nowhere without his pocket sketchblock and a pencil. He will sketch anything which excites his attention and will while away a boring meeting with lightening drawings of any character in the room who makes a suitable subject. His unwitting sitters may also be fellow customers in some foreign cafe or an English pub - no-one is safe! But often his interest will be aroused by animals; perhaps more often by horses but also by dogs and other creatures.
		+
		+
		+	Brian certainly has a deep feeling for and love of the Buckinghamshire countryside in its widely contrasting characters, from the Vale to the Chiltern Hills. His interest is caught not only by the form of the hills and valleys, the woods and trees but also by the effect of changing light and weather conditions on the landscapes, which he paints in watercolours, oils and the newish acrylic paints too. I was interested to learn that acrylic paints are also useful in painting stage scenery and that emulsion paint is also used for this purpose.
		+
		+
		+	Besides his thoughtful and expressive landscapes and seascapes too, for he has a notable understanding of Ships and the sea, Brian has done much life drawing and painting and it may have been through this particular interest that he has developed his great skill in plastic sculptures or modelling. The subjects of this sculpture/portraiture range from ships to dogs but with particular emphasis on horses. Brian keeps an old and faithful horse which he rides and with whom he enjoys a special relationship of mutual trust and regard. I am sure this old retainer deserves at least some of the credit for the deep understanding of horses which shows up clearly enough in the charming sketch we have selected for our cover drawing and which must have helped too in achieving such lively and delightful action portraits of horses both with and without riders.
		+
		+
		+	He started modelling in Plasticine some 25 years ago but of late has been using a new development of this material (not yet on sale to the public) which has the useful property of remaining malleable indefinitely until it is cured and hardened by a moderate heat treatment.
		+
		+
		+	Although the finished sculpture is quite hard and rigid, during the modelling and curing process it must have the support of an internal metal framework or ‘armature' particularly if it is of a running or jumping horse with less than four feet on the ground. The thicker parts of the body must also be stiffened by the inclusion of other material to prevent sagging during the initial stages of the heat treatment which at first has a softening effort on the plastic. Once hardened the sculpture is ready for painting or at this stage it may alternatively be moulded for casting in metal or ceramic material.
		+
		+
		+	Whilst in landscape painting, the choice of colour range or the selection of the artist's palette is usually a matter of artistic expression, the colouring of these sculptures tends to follow nature quite closely. The painting is delicately executed and the result is a gripping realism which can capture a fleeting moment of exquisite pleasure. A permanent reminder of perhaps a much-loved steed or faithful dog long after its comparatively brief life-span is ended. Such three-dimensional portraits are usually commissioned though on occasion Brian has followed some irresistible urge to record some particular horse or horse and rider for instance one elderly servant who was a living caricature, straight from Dickens or Anthony Trollope, who has been most faithfully portrayed from his pinched old face to his faded hunting pink and his seedy old mount.
		+
		+
		+	The cost of these sculptures must vary according to the work involved but a horse and rider such as I have described starts around £150. A horse without rider or a dog would obviously cost less. He showed me two lovely studies of a retriever dog and a small pony.
		+
		+
		+	But Brian is by no means obsessed with horses and I saw a major work of modelling, which has entailed some 54 years work: an action portrait of H.M.S. Bluebell some two and a half feet long (1/72 scale) a Corvette, in fact a sister ship to one in which Brian served for some time during the war as a gunner. Rather more of his wartime service was spent in defensively armed merchant ships on convoy duty, on one occasion he was in a disguised and armed tanker, carrying both oil and ammunition when it was torpedoed but that is another story. Suffice it to say that Brian was sufficiently intimately acquainted with the detail and routine of a Corvette to portray H.M.S. Bluebell with incredible accuracy, even to the deployment on deck of the ship's duty crew at a particular point of the watch.
		+
		+
		+	Bluebell is there before you, riding the ocean swell with a realism to make land-lubbers feel quite queasy. The painting is superb, both of the beautifully modelled sea and the ship which bears all the Signs of action and salt water on its battle-scarred war paint. Small wonder that since I saw the model it has been enthusiastically purchased, together with one of Brian's paintings, by the Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth Dockyard.

	'''Nell died in 1990'''. Jane Tyrer, a member of the group, published a tribute in Hallmark. See [[1990 Obituary Nell Panter of Lacey Green Productions]].		'''Nell died in 1990'''. Jane Tyrer, a member of the group, published a tribute in Hallmark. See [[1990 Obituary Nell Panter of Lacey Green Productions]].

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 The family went to stay in London for a period whilst my grandfather got treatment. When he recovered enough to work, they lived in the house of a wealthy American family who employed both my father's parents, where he experienced something of the sophistication and luxury offered by middle class city life. Returning to the village, to hand-pumped water and an outside lavatory, must have highlighted at an early age, the basic nature of country life. Decades later, in a Lacey Green parish council meeting, he reportedly challenged an individual who cited the 'historical character of the village' as grounds for opposing a new housing development with: "what character would that be then? The days when you had to go to the end of the garden for a crap?"
-[[File:Brian Panter and Sculptor Illustration.jpg|thumb|drawing for 1971 Home of Rest for Horses by Brian Panter]]
+[[File:Brian Panter and Sculptor Illustration.jpg|thumb|drawing for [[2011 Home of Rest for Horses Updated]]  by Brian Panter]]
 When the family returned to Bucks, my grandfather took a job as a farm bailiff at 'the big house' at Lillingstone Darrel, and it was here that my father's love of horses and fox hunting grew. I admit - and this is a bit problematic for me these days, especially given the political company I keep - that as a child I shared his love of riding to hounds, going to a couple of meets a season which was all we could afford. My father's passion sprang from his experiences as a stable boy, riding out the master's second horse, always rooted in the countryside. At the Old Berkley Hunt down the road, he knew the terrier man, the hunt servant, the farmers, the fence menders. Indeed, Dad took the job of fence mender one season soon after we moved to Princes Risborough, and I have memories of riding with him in the ancient land-rover to help rebuild farmers' fences damaged by horses ridden to hounds.