Paul Watson’s notes on ongoing artwork, giving an insight into the creative process.
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…
On Monday I took the day off from my day job to get some artwork done. The first half of the session was spent doing three 40-minute life drawings, working in compressed charcoal on large (565mm × 760mm) sheets of paper. Charcoal is less forgiving of mistakes than pencil—you can’t erase…
Do you ever have one of those moments where you realise that a number of seemingly disparate things you are reading, watching, or pondering are actually all connected and swirling around a central core concept? It’s disconcerting but intensely interesting. So this blog post isn’t directly…
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Like most artists I create artwork because I feel that I need to - for me it’s a necessary process to manifest the non-verbal web of thoughts in my head, which when completed leaves me feeling exorcised, sated, and satisfied. Well, until the next piece, of course. This blog post isn’t…
A couple of weeks ago I decided to get a set of postcards made of four of my drawings, and they’re now available to order on the shop section of this website (£3.50 for the set of 4 postcards, which is about $5.68 USD or €4.48 EUR at time of writing). I decided to get the postcards printed…
1. One of my Blindfolded Seeress drawings in its early stages “I still come closest to success with drawing.” Paul Klee, 1903. As an artist I’ve always been drawing, even when my professed medium has been painting, collage & assemblage, photography, or printmaking. It’s…
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I recently bought this rather creepy “blank” bird mask by Seattle-based artist Cassandra Mélena. My plan is to paint and decorate the mask to use in another series of mythologically-inspired photographs in the same style as my Blindfolded Seeress, Death Mask, Badb Catha/Crow Mask, and Bark…
I wrote about the more philosophical side of masks in a previous blogpost Masks, Deception, and Truth. This post is more about the history of masks. Get yourself comfortable - this one could go on for a bit: An introduction and some politics When using masks in artwork, the obvious initial…
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