The Artist’s Notebook is Paul Watson’s studio journal containing notes on his ongoing artwork and related research, giving an insight into his creative process and artistic practice.
I finished off the last day of January with a second session of life-drawing, following on from the session earlier this month.
The first drawing (detail at ...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...
Earlier today I heard that there was yet another attempt being made to reboot the late 70s TV show Blake’s 7. I have a particular fondness for Blake’s 7 and b...
A fragment of the first drawing from the session I managed to get my first 2026 session of life-drawing done this past weekend. I was trying to find a particul...
This is my first post of 2026, the 300th post since I added this blog to my website back in August 2008, and we have just entered the 30th year of existence f...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...
This is my contribution to December’s IndieWeb Carnival hosted by V.H. Belvadi on the subject where do you see the IndieWeb in 2030, just five short years fro...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...
The fabric of reality is fraying in England: the old queen is dead, a disgraced prince has been ousted by the new king, his older brother: Gormenghast is chan...
Opinion polling graph for the next United Kingdom general election (post-2024) from Wikipedia licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 I...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...
The Hastings Borough Bonfire Society’s Torchlit Procession, October 2025. Photograph by the author. This weekend just past was the Hastings Borough Bonfire Soc...
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how I can make it easier for people to follow this blog.
I usually post a link to any new blog post on my social medi...
Now that the evenings are getting dark earlier I feel more inclined to put some of my time aside to make a few changes to this website.
I’m thinking of adding...
Back in 2020 I was discussing the out-of-print novel Albion by Brenda Vale and musing on what I’d taken from it, and I wrote:
The problem with modern democr...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...
View out from Agios Georgios Beach on Naxos. Photograph by the author. I’ve just returned from a fortnight-long holiday in Greece—a long weekend in Athens, fol...
Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines, by the author Back in July I wrote a post here called The futility of constructing a better past & the necessity of ...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...
Artists often take photos of their exhibitions being put up, but never after they’ve been taken down: nothing to see here, please move along.
Overall the Acid...
Detail of one of the drawings from the recent life-drawing session Yesterday I did my first life-drawing session since March this year.
After a six-month brea...
Today this blog turns seventeen years old, the first post being Welcome to the Journal posted at 12:23pm on Saturday 9th August 2008 (I never did finish that art project I wrote about in that first post).
And while I don’t particularly...
My Acid Renaissance: Arcana exhibition opened on Friday evening, and it seems to be going well so far.
I don’t want to speak too soon, but sales are looking ...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...
I moved to Hastings a year ago today, so it seems like a good time to look back on how it's gone so far.
I haven’t made as much artwork in this first year in...
I’m really happy to let you all know that I’m having a new exhibition here in Hastings in August this year, my first solo exhibition since Children of Mab in ...
A detail of The Bride of the Sun (3), from my Acid Renaissance series I haven’t seen 28 Years Later yet, but it’s already on my list of things to watch ASAP, a...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...
More strangeness from Hastings’ antique shops. Out of shot are a small coffin and a stuffed badger. Photograph by the author. Here in Hastings the summer is st...
A previously unpublished photograph from The Bride of the Sun As I try to pull myself out of my current bout of artistic block and resume work on my Acid Renai...
