Paul Watson’s notes on ongoing artwork, giving an insight into the creative process.
Back on 19th November 2021 I was interviewed over Zoom by Dr Callum Sutherland (pictured above, on the left) as part of his research. Callum is a Research Associate at Glasgow University’s School of Geographical & Earth Sciences where is research, supported by the Urban Studies Foundation…
For a couple of years I’ve had an idea at the back of my mind to do a drawing based on Christina Rossetti’s 1859 poem Goblin Market as part of my Acid Renaissance series. It’s a poem that has been interpreted in multiple different ways over the years. The British Library’s introduction…
This isn’t a review, but rather an opportunity for me to expound about some of my personal interests — in my case utopias, acid communism, and the post-apocalyptic pastoral — using Stargazy on Zummerdown as a jumping-off point. That said, I will be talking about the plot, characters,…
Yesterday was St Swithin’s Day and it hasn’t rained for days. The Met Office has issued its first ever Red Warning for extreme heat, predicting that “exceptional, perhaps record-breaking, temperatures are likely on Monday, then again on Tuesday.” with temperatures potentially hitting…
As you may have heard if you follow my Twitter or Instagram accounts, I will be showing some of my artwork at Children of Mab, an exhibition in the basement room at Treadwell’s bookshop in London from mid-August. I’ll be showing drawings, prints, and photographs from Myth & Masks,…
I’ve written about imagining progressive alternative futures here before, mainly as ways of breaking out of the chains of capitalist realism (most are tagged as Mark Fisher and/or Acid Communism if you want to read them). I’d like to pick up that thread of thinking again, especially since…
Since 2019 I’ve been reading various books which all seem to circle around the themes and ideas that make up my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. This will be the thirtieth blog post I’ve written that is tagged as Acid Renaissance, and in many of the previous ones I’ve mentioned books…
I’ve run a mailing list/newsletter for this website since … possibly as far back as the late 1990s. Sometimes I’ve been good at sending out stuff, but more recently I’ve been very bad. I sent one out in February 2019 then nothing. Well, nothing until now. I’ve decided to revamp…
Although I only posted this photograph on my site and social media yesterday, it was actually taken at a photoshoot back in the autumn of 2020, in the window between the first and second Covid lockdowns in the UK. The original idea for Our Lady of the Orchard dates back further - the earliest…
I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who…
Read the rest of “Is it easier to end capitalism than to imagine the end of capitalism?”…