I’ve been fascinated with the paranormal and Fortean topics from a young age, inspired initially by ‘The Unexplained’ magazine in the early ‘80s and the ubiquitous Usborne ‘World of the Unknown’ series - a staple of many a school library in the 1980s.

Usually, when I do my Occultaria of Albion talk, the sun has set, the curtains are drawn, candles lit and a blood sacrifice performed

Time present and time past, as Eliot puts it in Four Quartets, were calling to the shadows of time future – like Baird’s first TV image, faint and blurred.

I’m really drawn to that tipping point where you go from the Age of Aquarius to Amanda Fielding performing self-trepanation

One thing I would like to let you know is that at the end of last year the first OA paperback book was released: Earth To Earth, A Beginner's Guide to Unwitching.

Let the mind wander and find ideas and inspiration in the empty lanes, fields and backroads.

It tells the story of an arcane and enigmatic group known as Unwitchers.

Folk festivals are an event many families have flocked to over the decades, and I wanted to incorporate this feeling into the drawing. I also enjoy the marriage of the innocent and the eerie, and how those two themes can play together.

It is daft in the best possible way and the perfect thing to listen to under the duvet late at night.