#nature

• Post-apocalyptic pastoral and post-industrial

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/post-apocalyptic-pastoral-and-post-industrial

  I’ve lifted the term “post-apocalyptic pastoral” from a book review by Goodreads user Terry from Toronto who effectively seeded my reading list by citing Richard Jefferies’ After London: or, Wild…

• Encounter – Lucy Bellwood

  https://lucybellwood.com/encounter

• Clayton Windmills

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/clayton-windmills

  I’m going to be returning to talking about art and all the related stuff I usually talk about in the next few weeks, but until then I wanted to post a few pictures from another walk. In some ways these…

• An unexpected fox cub

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/an-unexpected-fox-cub

  At ten o’clock this morning my front door bell rang. Outside was a woman with a dog on a lead—probably heading down to the nearby park to walk the dog—and a small bundle of fur in her hands: I found…

• 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…

• Plants that look like aliens

  https://wwo24.caitlin.cloud/nature

  An assortment of plants that look like they're from an alien world. Created for Weird Web October 2024.

• Women’s voices in Folk Horror and Landscape (Part 1)

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/womens-voices-in-folk-horror-and-landscape-part-1

  I’ve been going through a number of my blog posts on the subject of the Folk-Horror/Landscape thing that often gets shortened to the “English Eerie” and I noticed a distinct lack of women’s voices…

• The Desert Links Compendium

  https://osteophage.neocities.org/projects/desert-links

  The Desert Links Compendium is a collection of links assembled to encourage learning about and appreciation for the ecology, history, and cultural heritage of deserts and drylands, with a focus on the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Mojave Deserts.

• Devil’s Dyke and Poynings

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/devils-dyke-and-poynings

  Yesterday Kate and I took the 77 bus from Brighton Station up to Devil’s Dyke. This bus only runs on weekends and public holidays and takes about 20 minutes to get out to Devil’s Dyke, stopping right…

• The present is haunted by the mythic ghost of the paleolithic wilderness

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-present-is-haunted-by-the-mythic-ghost-of-the-paleolithic-wilderness

  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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Ramble #29 – Lucy Bellwood

  https://lucybellwood.com/ramble-29

• Notes on re-enchantment as resistance in Deep England

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/re-enchantment-in-deep-england

  Yesterday I posed a question on Twitter as a short thread that I’ll reformat here for easy reading: I’m trying to put together a vague explanation for the increased use—by artists (such as myself),…

• Acid Renaissance, Act II

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/acid-renaissance-act-ii

  I’ve been thinking lately about woods and meadows and the edges of lakes, places of importance in my own personal mythology that feed into my artwork. So far in my Acid Renaissance series these places…

• Photographs from Stanmer Great Wood

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/photographs-from-stanmer-great-wood

  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…

• Slowly, Slowly – Lucy Bellwood

  https://lucybellwood.com/slowly-slowly

• https://robida.net/entries/2026/03/06/ive-seen-many-coconut-palms-in-my-life-but-this-is

  I've seen many coconut palms in my life, but this is the first time I've seen a sprouting coconut up close!

• England’s eerie dreaming

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/englands-eerie-dreaming

  Sometimes you read an article or blog post that sums up much of what you’ve been thinking around, and that’s good. When the article not only does this, but is also written incredibly well and goes…

• The Infinite Carrier Bag – Lucy Bellwood

  https://lucybellwood.com/the-infinite-carrier-bag

• 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 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.

• Unselfing, Grief, Birds – Lucy Bellwood

  https://lucybellwood.com/unselfing-grief-birds

• See You Later Alligator! – Billy Glenn Hoya

  https://billyhoya.com/see-you-later-alligator

• More about Nature and Myth

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/more-about-nature-and-myth

  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…

• A 'smooth snake' in their default self defense mech... | Photo | gerben.dev

  https://gerben.dev/photos/8e7cd95ccdbc29659667a1ac0e5675f8

  A 'smooth snake' in their default self defense mechanism; blending in and staying still.

• Floodland

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/floodland

• 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…

• Deep England

  https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/deep-england

  On some days, when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest, it is said that you can glimpse the mythical land of Deep England, particularly if you read the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, or the Daily…