Quality Rubbish from the Master of Overstatement

This is the website of Nicolson Brooks – Writer and Artist. It is the shop window to an outlet that has the blinds down and a closed sign hanging on the door. The proprietor has plenty of stock inside, but is focussed on the production process and not the retail. Here will be displayed whatever he feels like releasing without charge. Here you will not be seduced through window displays with gloss and fancy packaging or led through an open door into the grasping arms of a salesman. Here you are encouraged to go round the back and rummage in the bins. I draw stories and write pictures. If that’s your thing, then welcome. If not, then I hope you find what you are looking for elsewhere.

This is not the page of someone seeking fame or fortune. These come cheap, and are insubstantial rewards for the work required. This is an exercise in communication for the select few who can bear it.  It is not aimed at mass appeal. It will not go viral. It may bring you joy, it may make you squirm or cry. It may even make you think. It will not give you lifestyle advice in the form of sneaky little aphorisms, and will not show you video clips of cats pulling faces. It will not burden you with opinion or politics, or make any demands of you at all, except perhaps to read it, should you feel so inclined, and glance at the pictures now and then.

There will be no pretence of high art here. These are random jottings and scribbles as they come to me in the course of idle time while awake. If you want something more substantial, you’ll have to wait till I summon up the energy to send the real work off to a publisher. Don’t hold your breath. I’m not really interested in sales or marketing. That’s why I’m doing this.