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.
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...
Cormac Pentecost’s latest issue of the Temporal Boundary Newsletter chimed with me in many ways.
For those who haven’t come across this newsletter before, Co...
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’m happy to say that a piece of mine—Ritual, Part I, from my England’s Dark Dreaming series—is being exhibited in the Hastings Arts Forum Spring Show from now until May 25th (11am – 5pm from Wednesday to Sunday).
Entrance is free and the gallery can be found at 20 Marine Court, St Leonards on Sea TN38 0DX.
You can email me at lazarus@lazaruscorporation.co.uk with a comment or response.
Scene from season two of Andor. Source: Disney+ For obvious reasons this post contains spoilers for all the episodes in Andor season 2.
I wrote about season o...
My copy of the festival brochure, the bark mask I wore, and the lucky leaf I managed to get after the Jack had been slain This May Day bank holiday was my firs...
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...
At ten o’clock this morning my front door bell rang. Outside was a woman with a dog on a lead—probably heading down to the nearby park to walk the dog—and a s...
The monks’ common room beneath the dormitory of Battle Abbey turned into the chapel of the Green Knight, and the nearby Battle Great Wood. Photographs by the a...
Sunset at Hastings beach. Photograph by the author. Now that I’m settled in I wanted to try to start exploring personal (IndieWeb) websites from people here i...
