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RSS- About my studio
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/about-my-studio
I’ve rented a couple of actual artist’s studios in my time. The first was when I was living in the Earlsdon area of Coventry around 1992–1994 - it was a spare room above a gallery in a converted…
- Artwork for all
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/artwork-for-all
I’ve decided to make three of my recent life-drawings, including the one illustrating this blog post, available to buy - you can find them on the new “Original Drawings” section of my online shop. This…
- Drawing as a principle medium, or, “why I love drawing” (Part One)
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/why-i-love-drawing-part-one
As an artist I’ve always been drawing, even when my professed medium has been painting, collage & assemblage, photography, or printmaking. “I still come closest to success with drawing.” Paul…
- New Essay: “Sexy Lucy” – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/new-essay-sexy-lucy
- Tales from A Brightonian Death
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/tales-from-a-brightonian-death
A very short blog post today just to share a couple of pics from A Brightonian Death, the Brighton Fringe event where one of my Death Mask photographs was used: projected on the screen behind the stage,…
- The Bark Mask Revisited
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-bark-mask-revisited
I started making the Bark Mask back in 2012, and used the early version in a series of photographs (Bark Mask 01, Bark Mask 02, Bark Mask 03). It started from a shop-bought papier-mâché mask blank…
- On Promoting Interstitial Art
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/on-promoting-interstitial-art
As I’ve been working on The Book of the Erinyes I’ve been trying to work out who it’s likely to appeal to. The problem is that it doesn’t fit comfortably in any one area. It sits between art and…
- Free Workshops Next Week! Creative Motivation and Kick-Ass Kickstarters – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/free-workshops-next-week-creative-motivation-and-kick-ass-kickstarters
- Blindfolded Seeress - first prints printed
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/blindfolded-seeress-first-prints
Well, it’s come a long way from the first scribbled sketches I posted on this blog in January – the first 13ʺ × 10ʺ fine art giclée print is now up for sale in the online shop. I’ve never…
- Exhibition: Hastings Arts Forum spring show
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/exhibition-hastings-arts-forum-spring-2025
I’m happy to say that a piece of mine—Ritual, Part I, from my England’s Dark Dreaming series—is being exhibited in the Hastings Arts Forum Spring Show from now until May 25th (11am – 5pm from…
- Part of this Delicious Breakfast! – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/part-of-this-delicious-breakfast
- Planning for 2025
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/planning-for-2025
We’re two weeks into the new year, but I feel like I’m still in first gear: there has been no “hitting the ground running” — or any other similar corporate-speak — here. In addition to the…
- On the Images used in the OP Elevator Pitch -
https://ideastore.dev/blog/Pitch-photo-sources
I built the elevator pitch for the release of OP 0.5 in a semi-fugue, and once I settled on only using Wikimedia, things moved pretty fast. Each image I used struck me as something remarkable at the time. It wasn’t until going back through to do proper attributions that I realized how interesting each one of them is.
- Sketches, Masks, and Trinkets
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/sketches-masks-and-trinkets
I wrote about my ideas for the next series of photographs/prints in a post in February and since then I’ve been working on the mask and other props, and drawing out some very quick (5 minute) sketches…
- Life Model Rates 2018
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-model-rates-2018
As the new year approaches I decided it was time to review the rates I pay life models again. I try to review these rates on a regular basis because It’s the right thing to do, Life models are hard-working…
- September life-drawing: not safe for whose work?
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/sep-2023-life-drawing
I managed to fit in a life-drawing session this past weekend, three drawings from it are displayed above. As you can probably tell, I was unsure of the best medium or style to work in that day, but…
- The Moss Figure
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/moss-figure
The “Moss Figure” is an image that’s been haunting my mind since I was a child. The original inspiration was a reproduction of a Cibachrome print by Veruschka Forest-piece at Schnaitsee, Performance…
- NSFW on the IndieWeb
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/nsfw-on-the-indieweb
This post is a follow-up to my post from last year September life-drawing: not safe for whose work? and I draw upon a lot of the concepts I laid out there. It’s a little longer and rantier than I planned,…
- Peep – Post by @bgreenlol
https://peep.zone/post/094cjFa6
- Planning for Saints & Martyrs
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/planning-for-saints-and-martyrs
I’m currently planning an Acid Renaissance photographic piece — working title: Saints & Martyrs — which is heavily inspired by the “catacomb saints” so wonderfully recorded by Paul Koudounaris…
- I have plans to do some planning
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/plans-to-do-some-planning
I’ve got three weeks booked off as holiday from my day job over Christmas/New Year. There are two reasons for this: firstly because I haven’t taken any holiday since May and I need to use it up before…
- The Dream Eaters dance beneath the Crescent Moon
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-update-8
Being the latest of a (now traditionally unpunctual) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. The Dream Eaters I mentioned the Dream Eaters in my last update, but I’m mentioning…
- A Brightonian Death, and other things
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/a-brightonian-death-and-other-things
One of my Death Mask photographs is going to be used in the programme for A Brightonian Death on the evening May 28, part of the Brighton Fringe Festival. From the coffin of Lux Interior (the theatrical,…
- Panels, Podcasts, and Posts! – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/panels-podcasts-and-posts
- Collaborative Goodies – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/collaborative-goodies
- Folk Horror: it’s all an allusion
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/folk-horror-its-all-an-allusion
Prompted by some several discussions on Twitter (particularly one thread from author Adrian Bott) prompted by yet another article about Folk Horror films I wanted to set out some thoughts about Folk Horror. From…
- England’s Dark Dreaming (Part III)
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/englands-dark-dreaming-part-three
I’ve now finished the first 5 of my England’s Dark Dreaming series of drawings. I wish I could show you them at their full size—one metre high—rather than the relatively small digital photographs…
- Dancing with light — L. Pereira's blog
https://tia.mat.br/posts/2024/09/27/dancing-with-light.html
- On the reading necessary to make art
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/on-the-reading-necessary-to-make-art
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…
- Art Postcards
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/art-postcards-2014
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…
- Life Model Rates 2025
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-model-rates-2025
I haven’t re-evaluated the rates I pay to the life models I work with since 2018, so I decided that it’s about time I did! At the time of writing this the current recommended rate from the Register…
- Art Junky 15
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/art-junky-15-announcement
I’m having a stall at Art Junky 15 on Saturday March 28th 2015, 11am-5pm, with friend and fellow artist Margaret Kemp: Art Junky is back! It’s the indoor market that combines our love for quirky…
- Open Meadow – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/open-meadow
- Myth and constant liminality
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/myth-and-constant-liminality
I’m typing this in a hotel lobby at the corner of Lexington and East 37th in Manhattan, and I can’t think of anywhere further removed from the subjects on my mind: wilderness, mythic archetypes, emerging…
- Lamia: my first new artwork made in Hastings
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/lamia
Two weekends ago my studio in my flat here in Hastings got its first proper use: a session of life-drawing (drawings below) followed by the Lamia photoshoot (prints of which are available here). Although…
- Famous painting attacked by protestors
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/famous-painting-attacked-by-protestors
A world-famous painting, worth millions of pounds, has been savagely attacked by activists earlier today. The activists have been arrested by police, who arrived swiftly on the scene to assess the damage…
- Projecting Narratives in the Spaces Between
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/projecting-narratives-in-the-spaces-between
Prompted by some idle musing on Twitter the other day: The photographic elements of my Acid Renaissance series could be seen as frozen moments from a strange spot-lit performance - part play, part dance,…
- Art Ideas - September 2013
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/art-ideas-september-2013
Planning one of these for mid-October. Not sure which one. Will need model and/or props. Series of photographs: A person completely painted white against a white or yellow/brown or black background.…
- Give me your Christmas money!
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/give-me-your-christmas-money
Give me your Christmas money! Er… that is to say: As promised some time ago, I’ve reduced all the prices of the limited edition hand-made lino prints available at my online shop for quick sale to…
- Some notes on recent (in)activity
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/some-notes-on-recent-in-activity
I’m starting to feel that — finally! — some thoughts are starting to come together for some new artwork. It’s been a particularly uncreative past few months for me, so this comes as a very welcome…
- Amanda Palmer on a Patronage-based model for music
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/amanda-palmer-on-a-patronage-based-model-for-music
…which I think can work equally well for the visual arts.…
- Exhibition: Acid Renaissance: Arcana
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-arcana
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…
- Diggers, Moss, and Bacon: a round-up for February
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/diggers-moss-and-bacon
My creativity and inspiration have been very limited of late. Sometimes this just happens, and at other times there’s a definite correlation with what’s going on in the world. In this particular case…
- Shadows of the Hinterlandscape
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/shadows-of-the-hinterlandscape
Selling artwork is always difficult, especially in the UK for some reason. People are reluctant to buy artwork - maybe they think it’s expensive or that you need to be an expert in the “art world”…
- On selling my art and seeing it sold
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/on-selling-my-art-and-seeing-it-sold
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,…
- Software for Artists for Free
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/software-for-artists-for-free
Software costs money. Actually that’s not true – there’s plenty of free software out there for artists, and the ones detailed below are just as good as the expensive versions. Browsers Web browsers…
- Acid Renaissance - June 2025 update
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-june-2025-update
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…
- Artwork from the previous month
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/artwork-from-july-2023
July was starting to look very sparse of any artwork until, I’m happy to report, the final weekend. On the final Friday of the month I took some test photos for a half-formed idea for a future photographic…
- Artists are controlled by words
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/artists-are-controlled-by-words
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…
- Planning artwork for 2013
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/planning-artwork-for-2013
I’ve written myself a list of art-related tasks to do before January 2nd - some involve creating artwork, but most involve planning artwork to be made in January, February, & March. I need 2-3 more…
- The drawing is not the model: gender identity in life-drawing
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-drawing-is-not-the-model
I’ve been talking to my regular life-models about gender, particularly with the models who use they/them pronouns (who may be non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, or something else) and whether the…
- Acid Renaissance: Arcana - coda
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-arcana-coda
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…
- Emerald City Comicon Pre-Show Commissions – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/emerald-city-comicon-pre-show-commissions
- Better Late – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/better-late
- Re-enchantment, Metaphoric Density, and Deep Myth
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/re-enchantment-metaphoric-density-and-deep-myth
Shortly before Christmas David Southwell (he of Hookland Guide fame) and I met up for a few festive beers in London. We spoke about many things, but one topic that has been buzzing around my head since…
- Seemingly obligatory post on the Turner Prize 2015
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/Turner-Prize-2015
I didn’t watch the Turner Prize announcement last night, but I’m glad that Assemble won - looking at the nominees they seemed by far the best choice. My main reason for preferring Assemble is that…
- Acid Renaissance update: The Oracle and the Sexton
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-oracle-and-the-sexton
Following on from April’s blog post, lockdown continues to force my Acid Renaissance series of artwork into different directions. Photography has been temporarily abandoned, as has in-person life-drawing. Instead…
- May 2023 life-drawing
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/may-2023-life-drawing
Following on from April’s blog post on my life-drawing practice, I wanted to give a quick overview on what’s been happening in May (even though it’s not over yet, and I hope to get even more drawing…
- Some thoughts on the Brighton Bazaar
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/brighton-bazaar-thoughts
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…
- The Snake Mask
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-snake-mask
I started working on the Snake Mask in January 2022, and it has sat partially made for a full year now. I think it’s time to finish it. I don’t know why it’s been such a blind spot for me over the…
- Nautical Postcards Round 1: Swallows! – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/nautical-postcards-round-1-swallows
- On being a Serious Artist
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/on-being-a-serious-artist
A lot of online advice for artists is framed around the trappings of corporate capitalism: building your brand, hitting self-imposed targets, maximising sales through targeted marketing, and so on. If…
- Bootstrapping a Forth for Art — L. Pereira's blog
https://tia.mat.br/posts/2025/08/30/forth-haiku.html
- A Study for The Goblin Market
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/a-study-for-the-goblin-market
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…
- More on The Weird
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/more-on-the-weird
I have mentioned “The Weird” as a concept before, and I wanted to expand on the idea, particularly after reading We Demand An End to Capitalist Realism (which you really should read right now, it’s…
- The Blindfolded Seeress
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-blindfolded-seeress
I'm currently working through some ideas for a new series of artwork based around the mythic figure of the Blindfolded Seeress. The starting point was Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi, but I've also been…
- Life-drawings and Myth and Masks
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-drawings-myth-and-masks
eBay Experiment The drawers in my plan chest are full, I’ve run out of space to store artwork and a plan chest drawer filled to the top with stacked paper is surprisingly heavy - just opening and…
- The Reading Pile
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-reading-pile
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…
- The English Eerie (slight return)
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/english-eerie-slight-return
The discussion of the Eerie continues to grow, mainly on Twitter and blogs, but also in the real world. In Oxford next month there’s Spectral Landscapes: Explorations of the English Eerie which is an…
- If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans having to face watching reboots – for ever
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/if-you-want-a-picture-of-the-future
This blog post is mainly concerned with the overlapping and/or adjacent spheres of hauntology, folk horror, the weird/wyrd, and other related subject areas, but the conclusions can probably be expanded…
- Strange fascinations
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/strange-fascinations
I have a confession to make: I don’t particularly like some of the new nature writing. Some of the old stuff bores me too. I should probably clarify that a bit: I don’t want to read piles of books…
- Link Dump: May 2015
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/link-dump-may-2015
A collection of interesting links that I saved for later consumption on Feedly whilst on my travels over the past couple of weeks: Guillermo Del Toro on myth & monsters BBC Radio 4: Matthew Sweet explores…
- Acid Renaissance: Arcana open
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-arcana-open
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 Green Man in every shadow
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/green-man-in-every-shadow
The Green Man was a term invented by Julia Somerset (Lady Raglan) in 1939 for the various foliate head designs found in European churches between the 11th and the…
- Masks and Photography, Ritual and Film
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/masks-photography-ritual-film
Over on Twitter yesterday I posted a series of tweets that, merged together, went something like this: What I need is Brighton people who will dress up in masks like those in the photo [above] and…
- Some updates: refuturing, life-drawing, etc
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-update-4
This post is a series of minor updates as I’m trying to make best use of my new work-life regime (3-days a week doing my day-job, 2 days dedicated to artwork, and a 2 day weekend of relaxing, contemplating,…
- Acid Renaissance: October 2020 update
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-october-2020-update
I suddenly realised I haven’t updated this for a few months, and while I haven’t been especially prolific I have actually completed some more Acid Renaissance artwork, so… Sketch for “The Lotus…
- Vancouver Maritime Museum Installation – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/vancouver-maritime-museum-installation
- Ranking Every Jason Momoa Movie – Billy Glenn Hoya
https://billyhoya.com/ranking-every-jason-momoa-movie
- Acid Renaissance: approaching a conclusion
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-Renaissance-approaching-a-conclusion
I’ve recently started to feel like my Acid Renaissance series is finally coming to a conclusion. There are perhaps three or four more pieces left to do, after which it will be finished. This series…
- July 2013 Progress Report
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/july-2013-progress-report
1. Series of photographs and/or lino prints: A woman stands clothes in ivy, twining round her arms, hanging in drapes from her arms. Dark leafy woodland in the background. Pale flesh visible between…
- The Duellist
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-duellist
The Duellist — of which I’ve published two versions: The Duellist (1) and The Duellist (2) — has been hanging around the inside of my head for a few months now, maybe longer. As I was planning…
- The 100 Day Project – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/the-100-day-project
- Crowd-Sourced Artistic Patronage
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/crowd-sourced-artistic-patronage
There’s an interesting discussion going on at TechDirt about the evolving business model being used by musician Amanda Palmer. One commenter, Kevin Stapp, sums it up perfectly: The more I hear about…
- The Children of Winter
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-children-of-winter
It seems appropriate, announcing that The Children of Winter is the first piece of artwork in my new Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced series, that I am coming down with a bad cold. In…
- The Marsh Spirit
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-marsh-spirit
Most of the time I have at least some idea who the characters that I photograph are. Not so in this case - I came up with the title of The Marsh Spirit after the event. There are early sketches of this…
- Me, elsewhere
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/me-elsewhere
It’s been a busy few months, and I realise I haven’t been blogging as frequently as last year. The main reasons for this is that I’ve been doing a lot more artwork (such as the drawing above - the…
- https://lucybellwood.com/sketchdump-8-23-14
- Masks, Deception, and Truth
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/masks-deception-and-truth
I was asked recently why I used masks that are obviously masks in my photographs, rather than using some digital manipulation to produce monstrous photo-realistic visages like those produced by special…
- My artwork in 2024
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/my-artwork-in-2024
All-in-all 2024 has not been a very productive year in terms of artwork - mainly because of too much time and headspace spent in moving to a new home in Hastings, on top of my day job. I completed four…
- Resources: selling art online
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/resources-selling-art-online
I wanted to take a short break from writing long articles to provide a quick list of links to various sites and online tools which can help artists with selling art online. So, in no particular order,…
- Acid Renaissance: update 3
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-update-3
Back in the 1970s there seemed to be such a myriad of ideas about potential shared futures, exploring all aspects of the political, social, and cultural. The aim of neoliberal capitalism of the 1980s onwards…
- Acid Renaissance lockdown
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-lockdown
My plan for December 2019 and the first three months of 2020 was to take Acid Renaissance into new territory. It would be brighter and more hopeful, and start to signal some potential radical futures.…
- Some thoughts on AI art tools
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/some-thoughts-on-ai-art-tools
Publicly-accessible AI art tools — Craiyon (formerly DALL-E mini), Midjourney, and the growing number of others — allow non-skilled users to produce an image that otherwise they would not have been…
- A Haunting of Roses
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/a-haunting-of-roses
A Haunting of Roses first appeared as a scribbled note in my notebooks sometime in early 2018. So the idea of a pale figure covered with dying roses and cobwebs has been a phantasmagorical apparition…
- April 2023 life-drawing
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/april-2023-life-drawing
I did two sessions of life-drawing this month, trying to find the media and style that I want to employ, and I think I’m nearly there. In this post I want to try to show how I assess the life-drawings…
- Photographs taken from the edge of the wood at midnight
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-edge-of-the-wood-at-midnight
Photographs taken from the edge of the wood at midnight is the title I finally decided on for my set of 4 photographs (taken at various shoots between 2013 and 2015). Like many things, it came to me as…
- The Psychedelic Gothic in Acid Renaissance
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/psychedelic-gothic-in-acid-renaissance
In a recent blogpost Ellen Rogers wrote of her current Gnosis project: It’s taken me 4 years to try and articulate what this project is about, but I felt like I was repeatedly going back to square…
- Making my artwork even more affordable
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/making-my-artwork-even-more-affordable
Last week I put up a Twitter poll to gauge the reaction to an idea I had. The question was “Would being able to pay for a piece of my artwork in smaller monthly instalments make you more likely to buy…
- Life-drawing, January 2024
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-drawing-january-2024
On Friday and Saturday I finally restarted the life-drawing thread of my artistic practice after a break since November. Rather than doing several drawings in each session as I have done before, I decided…
- ArtJunky March 2015 and various related thoughts
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/art-junky-2015-and-various-related-thoughts
So, I did another stall at a local art fair (Art Junky at the Brighton Phoenix, as mentioned in this post earlier this month) displaying and selling my prints. I have mixed feelings about spending a day…
- A 3D Printer
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/a-3d-printer
A few weeks ago I bought myself a 3D printer kit. The idea behind this purchase is: I should learn about this cool new technology, It’ll be useful as a tool for my artwork, It’ll be a fun toy. I’ve…
- Brighton Bazaar - 20th December 2014
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/brighton-bazaar-20-december-2014
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…
- Acid Communism; Acid Renaissance
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-communism-acid-renaissance
I’m a visual artist, so this brief piece about Mark Fisher’s draft introduction to his planned book Acid Communism (sadly never to be realised due to his premature death) examines the concept from…
- Close encounters, Keiji Ito
https://christopherhimes.com/blog/2025/10/13/close-enccounters
Went on a family trip where we visited Devils Tower and this painting made me laugh.
- Artwork plans for 2023
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/artwork-plans-for-2023
It’s been a difficult year and I didn’t get much artwork done in 2022. I managed only 3 finished photographic pieces - two Untitled “Moss” pieces (here and here) and Spirit of the Orchard in…
- Sketchbook Update – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/sketchbook-update
- Notes on a Genre
https://nikolas.ws/notes-on-a-genre
- Children of Mab: an Exhibition
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/children-of-mab-an-exhibition
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…
- Acid Renaissance and surrealism
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-and-surrealism
As I continue with the final preparation for my Saints & Martyrs artwork (which I wrote about back in August), most of my thoughts have been about surrealism. Lee Miller: Dressed is an exhibition of…
- Looking for a new way
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/looking-for-a-new-way
I've been thinking recently about how artists (and musicians and writers) use social media, about how nearly every “how to use social media as an artist/writer/etc” article talks about your “brand”…
- The Blindfolded Seeress - First Images
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/blindfolded-seeress-first-images
About 3 weeks ago I posted some rough sketches and notes on this blog for a new project called “The Blindfolded Seeress”. I’m happy to say that the first stage of the project is complete, and you…
- Acid Renaissance updates and work-in-progress
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-update-5
As per last week’s post, this post is a series of minor updates - a format I’m experimenting with, more like a newsletter with various bits and pieces. This week’s artwork I spent yesterday on…
- My artwork in 2015
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/my-artwork-in-2015
I wanted to do a quick review of the artwork I’ve produced this year, not just to show it all to you, but also for my own benefit: as an artist sometimes you forget how much work you’ve actually done…
- Various early-October musings
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/various-early-october-musings
Now that the evenings are getting dark earlier I feel more inclined to put some of my time aside to make a few changes to this website. I’m thinking of adding search functionality for this blog, as…
- England’s Dark Dreaming book
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/englands-dark-dreaming-book
As those of you who follow me on Twitter will know, the book of my England’s Dark Dreaming series of drawings is now available to pre-order. It’s due to be published in early/mid August priced £14.99,…
- Artwork RSS feeds, & more life-drawing
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/artwork-rss-feeds-and-life-drawing
I’ve taken this week off as annual leave from my day-job, to both get some artwork done and to make sure I use up my annual leave before I lose it. I’ve also set up RSS and Atom feeds for my artwork…
- Ritual
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/ritual
As I’ve been developing a body of artwork about myth and masked mythic characters over the past few years my thought process has frequently been drawn to the concept of ritual. Not everyday rituals like…
- Life-drawing August 2025
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-drawing-august-2025
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…
- Spirit of the Orchard
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/our-lady-of-the-orchard
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…
- “I draw the path to walk” – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/i-draw-the-path-to-walk
- Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood, and Water
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/sussex-landscape-chalk-wood-and-water
My parents moved to Chichester after they’d both retired a couple of decades ago. It’s never struck me as a particularly exciting town. My father died in 2015 and my mother died two years…
- Departure lounge
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/departure-lounge
When you’re planning to move home there’s suddenly a day when the place that you’ve called home stops being home in some intangible way, and it instead becomes a departure lounge, and then you feel…
- Ideas for a New Piece
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/ideas-for-a-new-piece
I’ve started putting my ideas together for the next series of artwork, which will probably consist of a lino print as well as a series of photographs. It’s all based around another imagined mythological…
- Berlin: Degenerate Art and Käthe Kollwitz
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/berlin-degenerate-art-kathe-kollwitz
I’m just back from a 2-day holiday in Berlin, a city where the ghosts lie close to the surface, cross-hatching the modern city. On Friday I walked for hours following the ghostline of the Berlin Wall,…
- Operating Instructions – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/operating-instructions
- Life-Drawing, February 2024
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-drawing-february-2024
In my post last month about life-drawing I mentioned that the amount of oil used in the Faber-Castell Pitt sanguine pencil meant that I couldn’t get the tonal variation from it that I could from graphite…
- Live Q&A Hangout at Sea this Friday – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/live-qa-hangout-at-sea-this-friday
- Masks made 2012-2013
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/masks-made-2012-2013
I’ve been reviewing the masks I made over 2012-2013. The masks were primarily made as costume/props for my photographs, but in some cases they have almost become pieces of artwork in themselves. The…
- Saints & Martyrs
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/saints-and-martyrs
This image has been a long time coming. Update March 16, 2024: giclée prints of Saints & Martyrs are now available in my online shop. I wrote on here over six months ago about some of the early…
- SVG Pixel Art
https://nikolas.ws/svg-pixel-art
- England’s Dark Dreaming (Part II)
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/englands-dark-dreaming-part-two
I'm increasingly convinced that the country is temporally fractured, and we should be expecting a visit from Sapphire & Steel any time now. Everything seems to operate on skewed oneiric logic. Everyone…
- The Keeper of the Archives, Dream Eaters, and Dryads
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-update-7
Being one of a (much overdue) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. The Keeper of the Archives In late June I took the photographs for The Keeper of the Archives. I had a great…
- Week Notes: mid-June, 2025
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/week-notes-mid-june-2025
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 small traders,…
- Kid Pix – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/kid-pix
- Digital Worlds and Gardens
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/digital-worlds-and-gardens
Back in August I wrote about a lot of online advice for artists is framed around the trappings of corporate capitalism, and my deep-felt aversion to the call to adopt these trappings in the documentation…
- Rook feathers, wool, and flint
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/rook-feathers-wool-and-flint
I’ve just got back from Wiltshire where we’ve been wandering around the prehistoric ritual landscape that includes Stonehenge. While Stonehenge is by far the most famous part of this landscape, I’m…
- On fairy tales and witches
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/on-fairy-tales-and-witches
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,…
- A Post about Life Models (update)
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-models-update
As I approach my next art project I’ve just reviewed the amounts I pay people who model for my photography or drawing from the rates I discussed in this earlier post. I’ve decided to increase the…
- The Gothic Mode in England’s Dark Dreaming
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/gothic-mode-in-englands-dark-dreaming
In which I make some initial notes looking into the Gothic mode in my England’s Dark Dreaming series of drawings. About the word “Gothic” I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s clad in black (and…
- Just a card
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/just-a-card
Whilst browsing around the web over the past couple of weeks I discovered Just a Card, a campaign to encourage people to buy postcards/greetings cards from artists and independent galleries on the basis…
- My plans for 2024
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/my-plans-for-2024
I deliberately skipped the archetypal “round-up of 2023” blog post, I’m not entirely sure why. I think, for me personally, it makes more sense to talk about the year ahead. Writing about it helps…
- Artistic Practice under Lockdown
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/artistic-practice-under-lockdown
As the third national lockdown in England doesn’t look like it will be a short one, I’ve been making some plans on how to continue my artistic practice under the restrictions. The vast majority…
- V.H. Belvadi — In defence of Times New Roman • (Venkatram Harish Belvadi)
https://vhbelvadi.com/in-defence-of-times
V.H. Belvadi’s personal website and blog
- Myth and Masks offer
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/myth-and-masks-offer
As I prepare to move to a new rented property next month I keep looking at all my belongings and want to lighten the load. I’ve got a number of copies of Myth and Masks, my hardback book of artwork…
- Acid Renaissance: update 1
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-update-1
As work steps up on my new series of artwork, Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced, it’s about time I provided an update on the ideas and thinking behind it. First of all, Acid Renaissance…
- Life-Drawing March 2023
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-drawing-march-2023
I took the day off from my day job on Monday — part of my plan to make sure I use all my annual leave allowance before I lose any untaken leave at the end of April — and booked myself a three-hour…
- Acid Renaissance: Albion’s True Standard Advanced
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance
I have, of late, been wittering on about radical visions of the future. It started in November with No one dreams of England’s future any more, and then The Ghosts of Christmas Futures which was followed…
- The Collective Imagined Future England
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/collective-imagined-future-england
As an experiment I asked the following question on Twitter: Right: you are all characters/professions/creatures in my vision of a post-apocalyptic England after the Dark Dream has come, where a new…
- The Artist’s Notebook
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/tagged
The Artist’s Notebook is Paul Watson’s studio journal containing notes on his ongoing artwork and related research, giving an insight into his creative process and artistic practice.
- The Ghosts of Christmas Futures
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-ghosts-of-christmas-futures
2018 has been my most financially successful year as an artist, primarily due to my England's Dark Dreaming book (fewer than 75 copies left at time of writing!). However when I say my most financially…
- Life-Drawing September 2022
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-drawing-september-2022
My plan to re-introduce regular life-drawing into my artistic practice is still going ahead, even though it’s not as frequent as I’d hoped yet. Some of that is the logistics of finding and booking…
- Life-Drawing October 2022
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-drawing-october-2022
I have been inconsistent with my choice of medium in recent life-drawing practice - alternating between pencils and pastels. I don’t see this as inherently negative, but it does suggest to me that I’m…
- Acid Renaissance Update 2
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-update-2
There is a great power in a deliberate temporal dissonance that stops you in your tracks and forces you to reassess. The TV series Britannia did it wonderfully, combining Celts and Romans with psychedelic…
- Criticismism interview
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/criticismism-interview
Three weeks ago I met up with visual arts writer Mark Sheerin to talk about my artwork. I’m delighted to say that the resulting interview has now been published on his site: I don’t believe in…
- Acid Renaissance as we approach the end of 2023
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-2023
A post by web developer Jeremy Keith (who, by coincidence, is also based in Brighton & Hove) came up in my RSS feeds today entitled After the end. I follow his blog/journal primarily for CSS and web…
- Lamia: artwork idea
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/lamia-concept
Lamia is a character from Greek mythology who — like many other deities and monsters of Greek mythology — seems to have been reimagined several times during the classical period. The earliest version…
- Month Notes, September 2025
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/month-notes-sept-2025
I’ve just returned from a fortnight-long holiday in Greece—a long weekend in Athens, followed by ten days on the island of Naxos—and I’m feeling fully relaxed for the first time in as long as I…
- Artistic block, Bacchanalia, and Jenny Greenteeth
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/artistic-block-bacchanalia-jenny-greenteeth
It’s been a month since my last update on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork, and as I mentioned in that post I wasn’t planning on doing any artwork for the project over August because I had too…
- The Delaware Road : Ritual and Resistance
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/delaware-road-ritual-and-resistance
On August 17th/18th 2019 I will be taking part in The Delaware Road: Ritual & Resistance, with a combination of an exhibition and artwork stall inside a secret military base near Stonehenge. The Delaware…
- Contemplating Acid Renaissance short video pieces
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/contemplating-acid-renaissance-short-videos
I am once again pondering if/how to make some short video pieces for my Acid Renaissance series. I did do a very short, static camera Children of Winter clip back at the start of the series in 2019,…
- Brighton Bazaar February 2015
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/brighton-bazaar-february-2015
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…
- Planning artwork in the dark months
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/planning-artwork-in-the-dark-months
February’s nearly over, and slowly we’re closing in on Spring (even if it doesn’t feel like it at the moment). These dark grey months at the beginning of the year have never been great for me…
- Children of Mab opening night
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/children-of-mab-opening-night
I’m delighted to say that the Opening Party for my Children of Mab exhibition at Treadwell’s Bookshop went very well, and seemed to be enjoyed by all - thank you to everyone who managed to get there. I’d…
- New Merch: “Fair Winds” & “Blissful Indifference” Postcards – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/new-merch-blissful-indifference-postcards
- Light in the Eyes – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/light-in-the-eyes
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- Life-drawing during Covid: some thoughts
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-drawing-during-covid
I’ve been trying to figure out the legality (and ethical conundrums) of restarting my life-drawing practice under the revised “3 Tier” system that is due to come into force in England on Wednesday…
- A Post about Life Models
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/life-models
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…
- Don Giovanni: Boners Ahoy – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/don-giovanni-boners-ahoy
- Interviewed by Callum Sutherland
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/paul-watson-interviewed-by-callum-sutherland
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…
- January 2016 art update
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/january-2016-update
January is two-thirds gone, but things are coming together. I just received an email from my printers: the books of my artwork have been printed, and I just have to wait for them to bind them and deliver…
- Standalone but interconnected, independent but not isolated
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/standalone-but-interconnected
This is a bit of a ramble, but bear with me. One of the main things I’ve tried to do with this new website — aside from making it load faster and look better — is to lay the foundations for a…
- AI Art: My Part in its Downfall
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/ai-art-my-part-in-its-downfall
[Forenote: the title of this post references a volume of Spike Milligan’s memoirs, and its claim should be taken with the same degree of seriousness] Back in September 2022 I posted some initial thoughts…
- Artists and Public Libraries
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/artists-and-public-libraries
If you’re in the UK then you’ll probably be aware of the threat to public libraries due to local government cuts imposed as part of the Conservative government’s dogma of austerity. As a child I…
- England’s Dark Dreaming
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/englands-dark-dreaming
A few days ago on Twitter I was thinking out loud about the film The Witch, which I watched on Saturday evening, specifically about its relationship to the theme of Folk Horror which is getting some interesting…
- Apologies for the absence…
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/apologies-for-the-absence
…I’ve been doing boring-yet-necessary financial stuff to set myself up as a self-employed artist - most of which entails reading a lot of boring-and-long-winded explanations of financial jargon. I…
- Stonecut – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/stonecut