Salford, 14th August 2019
Someone at the depot, didn’t really
Enjoy the manual extraction of
Paper , Metal , Plastics and Glass
As they passed him by on the conveyor belt
Reaction ? swift as bright coloured cousins joined the usual receptacle
And Markets created to conjure household rubbish by the
Tonne, into something much more pleasing to the
Eye, as yesterdays news transformed into blank new canvas
Wednesday 13th February
They put the bins out last night
The value of last weeks news dropped dramatically
As it waits for the refuse van
To take it to the paper mill
While bottles of plastic and glass
And tins and cans
Await their next transformation
Into the latest big thing
proud little toddler, parades his masterpiece
as mum and dad peruse the aftermath
in consideration, there really is more colour on the paper and
not the wall, now scattered in the maestros colours
together they smile…as the soapy water will be out after bedtime
Salford , 30th August 2017
Sat by the great stretch of Ontario,
Aware of the place i was in
Lowry’s backyard, I
Found myself a bench facing
Out onto this great stretch of
Royal waterway, in sight of Rileys Flat and began to
Draw a scene in simple pencil – one the great man would appreciate
Quite the thing, the noble feather known as a quill
under the hand of the wordsmith
it paints pictures in type without a machine
letters form on paper through ink
lovingly transcribed by the writer with the sharpened nib
#coloryourworld #cyw #white
I
writer
stares into
white fluffy clouds
ideas form
paper awaits
II
blank canvas
sits idle
blue skies await
application of
cerulean on white
III
Work complete
ten thousand notes
await transfer of
ink to paper
creating a tune
Salford , 18th July 2016
“Just a humble little scribble from my notebooks”
I like writing and drawing, and though i’ll never be the next big thing when it comes to these artforms – I still find them helpful in my never ending mission to concentrate the mind.
Pen Drawing, Roman Ruins, Oledeniz, Turkey
Whenever i’m off somewhere nowadays – I take my kit of supplies with me – notebook (A5) , pencils and paper, Bridge Camera, SD Cards, travel card , cash and not forgetting – supplies for lunch.
I get to my intended destination – I’ll have my lunch, find a suitable vantage point and begin recording what I see. Sometimes – it’ll be a poem or verse, and others – it’ll be a photo or a drawing. The inspiration comes from what I see. The process, concentrates the mind. As the basic forms take shape on the page – either in word, or in drawing – ideas come alive on the page
Impressionist painting of the Roman Wall, Castlefield, Manchester (c) Brian F Kirkham 2015
When I get home – I’ll play around with the scribbles and drawings. Thanks to my laptop I now have two marvellous sets of tools to turn my images into artworks – I principally use Adobe photoshop elements, but also use Corel’s Painter Essentials suite for its wide range of brushes.
Of course, if I want to use the time to concentrate – the computer gets switched off – the box of paints comes out and i’ll put something together from my notebook drawings onto my painting pad in Coloured pencil, pastels, watercolours or even oils
Painting of IWM North, Brian F Kirkham, Salford 2015
The scroll of paper
was pinned to the wall
ready for action
It remained as it was
for a number of minutes
as little thinkers – Thought
Blank white paper
with nothing to say
but – “FILL ME IN”
Suddenly a word, two or three
accompanied by colours diagrams and pictures
explode from the white – Reds Greens and Blues
Ideas, Opinions, Conceptions
filling up the space
forming a finished picture
And with Masterpiece complete
the story presented
The picture is stored away for safe keeping
Revealing – Another Blank Space
