Paul Watson’s notes on ongoing artwork, giving an insight into the creative process.
Politicians try to control debate with phrases and concepts - you know they’re at it when you suddenly start hearing all the members of one party laboriously forcing a particular set phrase into their press interviews. They are trying to permanently change the perception of the electorate by…
I took this crappy photo on my phone on Wednesday, watching the landscape between Brighton and London blur past through the train window. It’s too close to the main line to be “true countryside”, and too deep in the countryside to be urban. There’s an increasing body of work that’s…
When I was an art student, and in the years shortly after finishing art school, I was lucky enough to have a number of friends who were happy to life model for me for free, just as well as I was living hand-to-mouth anyway. I remain incredibly grateful to these people who enabled me to continue…
I seem to have got into the habit of only posting long-form posts here - reasonably long blog posts of 1200+ words. This is not a bad thing, but it has had the effect of making me shy away from posting here if I don’t have something of a similar size. The result is long periods of radio silence…
Building on what I learnt about running an art stand at the December 2014 “Brighton Bazaar”, Margaret Kemp and I will be doing the same again this coming weekend at the February Brighton Bazaar. Brighton Bazaar is a one-day arts & crafts fair to be held at Brighton Unitarian Church, New Road,…
I’ve recently started reading Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner - something which coincided with a visit to the Witches & Wicked Bodies exhibition at the British Museum, so following on from my previous posts about #mythology in connection with my artwork (such…
So we decided to go for a walk on Christmas Eve in Stanmer Great Wood, on the outskirts of Brighton, partly for exercise and some fresh air, and partly so that I could take some photographs of the woodland to feed back into my artistic practice. I’ve been posting about nature and wilderness…
This past weekend I ran a stall at the Brighton Bazaar with my friend & fellow artist Margaret Kemp selling our artwork. It's the first time I’ve done something like this—previously I've only sold my artwork on the online shop on this website—so it was a bit of a learning experience. The…
Apologies for the lapse in blog posts over the past few weeks. It’s been a busy time. However on Saturday 20th December I will be selling my limited edition linoprints at a stall at Brighton Bazaar which I’m sharing with my friend & fellow artist Margaret Kemp. Brighton Bazaar is a one-day…
In my somewhat pretentiously-titled post The present is haunted by the mythic ghost of the paleolithic wilderness a couple of weeks ago I wrote: What is clear to me is that there is a wider paradigm that is emerging in certain quarters of the collective cultural consciousness that incorporates…