Timothy Langton

The Mystery Fens | 2025

The Mystery Fens | 2025 collection is a series of evocative digital watercolour artworks exploring the eerie beauty and quiet unease of the East Anglian Fenlands. These hauntingly atmospheric paintings capture the vast, flat landscapes and shifting skies of the Fens—often bathed in moonlight or shrouded in fog—evoking a place suspended between land and water, reality and legend.

Drawing inspiration from centuries of local folklore, the collection centres on the mysteries said to haunt these wetlands. Chief among them is the Lantern Man, a spectral light that drifts across the marshes, luring the unwary with its ghostly glow. Said to be drawn to the sound of whistling, this figure has been sighted near Wicken Fen and beyond, part of a wider tradition of will-o'-the-wisps—flickering flames that dance above bogs and mires, leading travellers astray.

Each piece in the collection plays with light and shadow, using delicate washes of colour to suggest the intangible: whispers on the wind, the glint of something just out of reach, the hush of reeds in the dark. These are not just landscapes—they are windows into the unseen, places where the natural and the supernatural meet. The Mystery Fens | 2025 is both a tribute to a unique English landscape and an invitation to lose yourself in its timeless, otherworldly depths.

6 artworks

Folklore and supernatural tales

The Fens in East Anglia—those vast, flat, mist-shrouded marshlands stretching across parts of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk—are steeped in centuries of eerie folklore and supernatural tales. Isolated, mysterious, and once considered uninhabitable swamp, the region has inspired an abundance of legends and ghost stories.

These stories speak to the liminal nature of the Fens—a place neither fully land nor water, teetering between civilisation and the wild, between life and death. The heavy mists, endless skies, and ancient trackways only add to the eerie atmosphere.

Timothy Langton

Hailing from the rugged Pennine region of West Yorkshire, and now settled in the south of England, Langton specialises in creating surreal, atmospheric digital artworks with a narrative.

His most recent collections include Arcana | 2025 and The Mystery Fens | 2025. Driven by a fascination with the fortean, the uncanny, and the beautifully bizarre, his work delves into the mysterious and otherworldly.