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Artist | Hastings, UK | He/him | Grand Council of #Hookland | www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk

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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Autumn seems to be here in earnest
A figure covered in a dark green robe holding a small branch like a staff. They have moss growing on their torsoA grey-haired male-presenting figure is seated sideways on to us, reading an old book. They are draped in bright red fabric, reminiscent of renaissance paintings of St Jerome. Behind them are a pile of books, on top of which is a sheep skull.A female-presenting figure stands in darkness, holding a branch in their left hand as a staff. What can be seen of their face and body is daubed in painted lines and symbols, in a deep indigo colour.A female-presenting figure, their body daubed with white paint, with green paint over the top half of their face. Their left arm is raised horizontal, and their right hand holds a knife.
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Thank you so much!
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Prints of all of these photographs of mine available to order via the link to my online shop below shop.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/category/gic...
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Autumn seems to be here in earnest
A figure covered in a dark green robe holding a small branch like a staff. They have moss growing on their torsoA grey-haired male-presenting figure is seated sideways on to us, reading an old book. They are draped in bright red fabric, reminiscent of renaissance paintings of St Jerome. Behind them are a pile of books, on top of which is a sheep skull.A female-presenting figure stands in darkness, holding a branch in their left hand as a staff. What can be seen of their face and body is daubed in painted lines and symbols, in a deep indigo colour.A female-presenting figure, their body daubed with white paint, with green paint over the top half of their face. Their left arm is raised horizontal, and their right hand holds a knife.
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Yes, it needs to be published somewhere where everyone can read it. Hope you enjoy the two novels
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Sometimes a short essay - especially by the likes of Alan Moore - inspires a blog post www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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If we are to reinvest the world with meaning
I recently read, and greatly enjoyed, Alan Moore’s latest novel I Hear a New World, the second instalment in Moore’s Long London series, following on from The Great When. I’m not here to review it,…
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Posted here also as a note-to-self, as it partially describes my Acid Renaissance series of artwork www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/artists/paul...
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 29/09/2026
"If we are to reinvest the world with meaning, I suggest we use the fragments of our old shattered mythologies to build ourselves a new one." -- Alan Moore in 'And What Are We Supposed To Do With All These Busted Myths' (additional short essay in the special edition of 'I Hear a New World').
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 29/09/2026
no problem, it was a well-deserved mention!
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Fantastic - thank you!
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 29/09/2026
I don't suppose there'll be a recording of it made available afterwards?
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 29/09/2026
As another month draws to an end it's time for my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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Monthly Link Dump: September 2026
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, haunto...
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 28/09/2026
A very occasional reminder that I have some giclée prints of my Acid Renaissance photographs available in my online shop: shop.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/category/gic...
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Giclée Prints
Browse all products in the Giclée Prints category from The Lazarus Corporation.
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 28/09/2026
...and books of my artwork as well: shop.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/category/books
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Books
Browse all products in the Books category from The Lazarus Corporation.
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 28/09/2026
A very occasional reminder that I have some giclée prints of my Acid Renaissance photographs available in my online shop: shop.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/category/gic...
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Giclée Prints
Browse all products in the Giclée Prints category from The Lazarus Corporation.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Still a bit blown away to see copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ in the wild. Here is a signed copy available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From tonight's Hookland talk on Re-enchantment as Resistance at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. 'Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom.' #FolkloreThursday
Folklore can ignite enchantment within us. Enchantment that fuels our imaginations. Enchantment that shifts our consciousness, allows us to envisage new and better worlds. It begins the process of manifesting the changes we desire. Re-enchanted, the world is full of new, feral possibilities. Re-enchanted our imagination is an accessible superpower. 

The stories we intentionally absorb, the stories we select to tell ourselves, they allow us to live in the world differently. They allow us to make and remake the world differently.

Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom. We need this space. We ache for the sublime. For re-enchantment is an assertion of wonder and the numinosity of our relationships with landscape. Re-enchantment is an assertion of our collective ability to both imagine and experience better worlds. As a refusal of despair, as a lensing of hope. In re-enchantment we stop dreaming of inevitable apocalypse and find the permissive space to tell stories of hope.

Re-enchantment is personal metamorphosis. The space in which we grow glowing red eyes to patrol our communities against this long night of authoritarian pisspuffinry. The space in which we develop iron-hard fur, immune to the curses reductionist racists, misogynists, homophobes and AI cultists throw at us. Re-enchantment as the permissive circle where we can voyage into ourselves and find the marvels and bravery we need to deal with this age of violent bruising. This is why I walk the territory of folklore. Wear my witch-cloak of swan feathers, hold hag stone to my eye. This is why I created Hookland as a home for stories, a community for Fully-grown Changelings.
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 22/09/2026
New blog post: Waiting for the bubble to burst www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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Waiting for the bubble to burst
Over on my ‘about me’ page, many years ago, back in the teenage years of this millennium, I wrote: My artwork has sold to collectors across the world, mainly facilitated directly through online…
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 19/09/2026
From yesterday's visit to the Richard Dadd exhibition at the Royal Academy
Crazy Jane - painting of a woman holding stems of plantsColumbine - painting of a woman with flowersin her hair
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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wyrd Daze is back with a bumper issue 1 – 119 pages of extraordinary music, art & writing! There's a link to the free PDF on my blog: wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/w...
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 12/09/2026
New blog post about a book I highly recommend: When there are wolves again, by E. J. Swift www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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When there are wolves again, by E. J. Swift
Over the course of the umpteenth heatwave last month, and in the wake of over 2700 excess deaths estimated in England and Wales during the May and June heatwaves, I read When there are wolves again by...
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 10/09/2026
Snap, from Hastings last week
An anthropomorphic hot dog apathetic itself in ketchup, with mustard ready to go
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 10/09/2026
Fame (hopefully to be very swiftly followed by fortune) in the Hastings, St Leonards, & Rye Observer www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/...
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Hastings bar showcases the work of artist
Hastings artist Paul Watson has an exhibition currently running at The Twelve Hundred Postcards in Queens Road.
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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Maybe we can speculate which part of alchemy will be showcased in season 2 - The "true mandrake" hatched from an egg as described by Agrippa von Nettesheim, for example?
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Some good news (and note to self): www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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Mackenzie Crook’s acclaimed comedy Small Prophets returns to BBC for series two
The show has received widespread critical acclaim
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 07/09/2026
Has Eldritch made an appearance yet?
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 06/09/2026
A quick reminder to any of you in striking distance of #Hastings that I currently have an exhibition of my life-drawings at 1200 Postcards (Queens Rd, Hastings - opposite Morrisons) until September 26. Opening times in poster below.
An exhibition of life-drawings by Paul Watson.

The new exhibition is entitled Flesh & Bone and will feature a selection of my life-drawings from the past few years.

The venue is 1200 Postcards, a bar (in the tradition of Austin Osman Spare) on Queens Road in Hastings.

The opening event for Flesh & Bone is 7pm-9pm on Friday 4th September, and all are welcome.

The exhibition runs from September 4th to 26th, and entrance is free.
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 05/09/2026
Blogging as the world burns... www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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Household food resilience (UK plant-based edition)
The UK government is finally starting to put together advice for households to stock up on food supplies, which should be announced as part of a campaign soon (I’ll add a link here when the official…
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 06/09/2026
New acquisition
The cover of the book "I hear a new world" by Alan Moore
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 06/09/2026
In a rare turn of events, here is some positive news www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Britain’s Yellowstone’: restoration project aims to take the greed out of land acquisition
Investors in Emblehope Moor will get their financial returns – and then it will be given to community or charity owners
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 05/09/2026
View from the window at the opening evening of my exhibition at 1200 Postcards in Hastings
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 05/09/2026
Cloudporn, urban edition
The evening clouds above Morrisons turned yellow and orange by the sunset,
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 05/09/2026
Blogging as the world burns... www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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Household food resilience (UK plant-based edition)
The UK government is finally starting to put together advice for households to stock up on food supplies, which should be announced as part of a campaign soon (I’ll add a link here when the official…
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 02/09/2026
Exactly that
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 01/09/2026
My current reading matter, and excellent it is too - highly recommended
The cover of the book "when there are wolves again" by E J Swift
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 29/08/2026
Monthly Link Dump: August 2026 www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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Monthly Link Dump: August 2026
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, haunto...
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My last talk of the year. It will focus on re-enchantment as resistance and include tales of Woodwosing, being re-enchanted during the Yugoslav Wars of Dissolution and waiting on the fetches of the future dead. www.tickettailor.com/events/tread...
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Buy tickets – Hookland with David Southwell – In-Person Lecture – Treadwells Books
Hookland with David Southwell – In-Person Lecture – Treadwells Books, Thu 24 Sep 2026 - The creator of England's imagined lost county on re-enchantment as resistance. Through near-daily postings in th...
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 24/08/2026
New blog post: “Hands are difficult to draw” www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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“Hands are difficult to draw”
Since I’ve got an exhibition of my life-drawings coming up in September I’ve been thinking about the importance of observational drawing, and life-drawing in particular, within my artistic practice. T...
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 17/08/2026
A new exhibition of my life-drawings September 4th-26th in 1200 Postcards on Queens Road in Hastings: www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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Exhibition: Flesh & Bone
I’m having a new exhibition here in September this year, once again returning to 1200 Postcards on Queens Road in Hastings: Flesh & Bone An exhibition of life-drawings by Paul Watson.…
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 13/08/2026
Honestly one of the best books in this line I've read
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 13/08/2026
This is sublime
A fragment from page 245 of the book
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 13/08/2026
Excellent!
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 13/08/2026
Just to clarify that the review was by @taskerland.bsky.social
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 13/08/2026
REVIEW: Hookland Fragments – Volume One by David Southwell tasker.land/2026/08/13/r... CC @hookland.bsky.social
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REVIEW: Hookland Fragments – Volume One by David Southwell
I must admit that I was taken aback when I learned that David Southwell had decided to produce a book relating to the Hookland project. Hookland is a project that began on Twitter at a time when pe…
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 11/08/2026
Thoroughly enjoying this - I highly recommend it
The book "Finding Albion" by Zakia Sewell
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 10/08/2026
A short blog post about Dungeness www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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Dungeness
Last Friday my friends and I drove east to Dungeness, a headland on the Kent coast. It’s most well-known for two nuclear power stations (both non-operational now), Prospect Cottage (the home of the…
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 31/07/2026
My last life-drawings from July… www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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Last life-drawings from July…
I did my last life-drawing session of July earlier today, making a total of four sessions. I’ve got another life-drawing session booked for tomorrow afternoon.…
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 27/07/2026
It's time for the monthly round-up of links again www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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Monthly Link Dump: July 2026
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, haunto...
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 25/07/2026
A quick update on life-drawing and the value of regular practice: www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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Life Drawing - July 2026
I’ve managed to fit in three sessions of life-drawing so far this month—on three sequential Fridays—with the possibility of another session next week. It’s reminded me of how valuable it is…
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