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 & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...

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 Renaissance: Arcana exhibition was a success. I sold five unframed giclée prints and four framed giclée prints, which more than paid for the posters, flyers,...

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 break I felt I was a bit rusty at first, but it started to come back to me, and with regular life-drawing sessions planned then I should be more confident again...

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 like posting ‘meta’ posts—posts about my blog or about blogging in general—I’m...

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 good already - certainly enough to cover the costs of the exhibition already, so if nothing else I’ve already broken even. There’s a piece in Sussex World with...

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 & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...

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 Hastings compared to previous years. Some of that is due to the process of moving and settling in during the first few months, and some is due to not having...

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 Treadwell’s bookshop in London back in 2022. Acid Renaissance: Arcana An exhibition of artwork by Paul Watson. The new exhibition is entitled Acid Renaissance:...

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, and Rowan Lee’s (relatively spoiler-free) analysis of it in 28 Years Later: Where Folk Horror Meets the Apocalypse has only increased my desire to see it....

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 & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...

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 starting to manifest itself in the form of warmer and sunnier days and, consequently, the number of tourists is starting to rise. That’s good for all the local...

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 Renaissance series, I think it’s worthwhile—if only for myself!—trying to put together a new explanation of what I’m trying to do with this series of artwork. This...