Hi folks,
I thought I’d do a colourful, painterly, textured work of some roses.
Hope everyone is keeping happy and well,
Best wishes
Author Archives: Leigh Kemp - UK-based "Paintographer"
New blog page for “quotes from the dark”
Hi everyone,
Just to let you know that I’ve created a new blog page (link in the menu) for my collaborative work with Vyonne White of Quotes from the dark.
Kind regards
~Leigh
Quotes from the dark # 4
‘Nature’s Canvas’
Rushing blues, glimmering gold
casting a spell on me
I’m in a living dreamscape
walking the path of angels in reality
The sky, she sings
the water painting in the shades of jewels
and I am but a witness
as Nature casts her magic with these tools
And in this moment, when color collapses my fears
I can feel the air filling my chest
with the perfume of Life melted in the air
I sit before Nature’s canvas, at her best
Image/photo – ‘Riverview’ by Leigh Kemp
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“Forever immaculate”
Hi everyone,
A statue in a church garden.
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Quotes from the dark # 3
Hi everyone, my latest collaboration with Poet Yvonne White this time with my recent work titled “Out of the Blue“. My previous collaborations here and here.
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‘A Romance That Never Should Have Been’
She was built for starlight
all glitter, glow, and fire
She had the heart of a lion
and passion that would never tire
With a mind as sharp as any blade
and a tongue to match
She could tangle a man’s soul with a smile
their hearts, in her delicate hands, she’d catch
Always saying she’d never be tamed
always promising she’d go her own way
yet Life is a funny and fickle thing
because it listens to the things we say
It was a moment out of the blue
the thing that caged her heart
and like a tamed beast, she gave in
never thinking she could fall apart
But like any promise that’s ever made
all the things he said where just lies
and while her heart was caged within his gaze
her very soul started to die
The night he left was like any other
to the world around her, all was the same
but in her cage, her heart stopped it’s beat
and her soul’s raging fire became but a flame
She is built for shadows now
all ghost, shadow, and ghoul
there is nothing left of the queen she was
she’s no longer royalty, but the joker, the fool
Her heart is still encased, to this day
in the very cage he entrapped it in
but its still, its quiet, it never truly beats
her out of the blue romance was an end …
… that never should have been
– TerriLynn Le Blanc ©2017
Image/photo – ‘Out of the Blue’ by Leigh Kemp ©2017
New work: “Enchanted”
Hi everyone a path into the undergrowth.
All the best,
New work: “Out of the blue”
Hi folks,
Another of my arty flights of fancy. 🙂
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It’s a funny old game :)
Hiya,
I’ve just had my seventh work “explored” on Flickr. As many of you know I don’t very often produce absolutely “straight” photographic work which, on the whole, I think that Flickr explore seems to prefer so I’m always surprised and delighted when one of my works appear there. By way of a little celebration I thought I’d post them here in chronological order. The first work entitled “Last of the Summer Wine” is a pretty conventional work but still a surprise when it appeared in Explore.
And then came this work “Between the Ponds” which came as a real surprise as it’s an out and out, full on painterly work and generally-speaking more reflective of my style and interest.
The next two works “The colours of spring” and “Under Pressure!” again in a painterly style and, in the later case, the first of my “Klimtesque” style works to be explored.
This work, “Good Light” is a bit of both, certainly not an out and out straight work and not overtly painterly either., a sort of halfway house if you like and marks a bit of a change in my style.
My most recent explores ” Come all ye faithful” and “Dreamscape” have really pleased me as I think that they reflect the direction which my work has taken recently.
Another place that I sometimes post my work to is to the Olympus Gallery. Understandably perhaps they nearly always favour straight photography as they’re a manufacturer of photographic equipment but it would be nice if they occasionally recognised that not everyone that uses their equipment produces conventional photographic works.
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“Dreamscape”
Hi everyone, a dreamy painterly work today.
All the best
More Quotes from the Dark
Hi everyone,
The fruits of my second collaboration with poet Yvonne White , this time featuring my recent work “Paper Rose” You can see our first collaborative work here.
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‘Let the Rose speak’
There is so much I could say
things built up in my heart, trembling and afraid
I long to express
that which crushes my chest
but my words have again failed me
They say that actions speak louder
much louder than words, yet I cower
so afraid
a mistake will be made
I hide myself so you won’t see
I don’t want to lose you
it would break me in more pieces than two
And so I’ve come here
with just this rose, my dear
in hopes it will say all that I never could
I chose it carefully
because it’s just like you – see?
So pure and white
so true, so right
you are my world, be that as it should
All I ask with this single rose
is that I can be the one you chose
To love, to hold
may I be so bold?
I want all of you, have all of me
I’ll close my eyes now
and with all my hope, bow
to wait with baited breath
heart pounding in my chest
for this single rose to bloom for you, for I, for we …
– TerriLynn Le Blanc ©2017
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