Vladislav and me All my life I had wanted to go to Prague but it was only after coming across Peter Marshall’s book The Philosopher’s Stone, tracing the history of alchemy, that I realised why. For, according to his research, all the writings paintings and sculptures I had created during my extensive inner journey to try […]
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Moonstruck
A huge shift of consciousness produced this painting. My outer sun life of success as an international fashion designer was suddenly over and I needed an inner reflective re-balance to make myself well again. It conveys not only how ‘moonstruck’ I was, but also how drawn I was to the ocean and all the secrets […]
My grotto laboratory.
The is the sacred space I created for healing and meditation in a vault of my apartment in the centre of Bath, and where many of my magical talismans, both found and… created were housed. It was also where much of my inner transformation work took place. It became very well known and was featured […]
An adept seeks to square the circle
This etching is said to possess all that is neeeded to transfrom base metal into gold. The accompanying emblem says: Make of man and woman a circle, from… that a square, then a triangle then another circle, and you will have the philosopher’s stone. The circle represents the feminine principle, the square stands for the masculine, […]
The curse of alchemy
The biggest curse of alchemy is that it has always been shrouded in mystery, with enough secret symbols, glyphs, and strange rituals and practices, to scare away all but the bravest or the certifiable. Often necessarily so, if you valued your life or your career prospects, (as in the case of Isaac Newton, who had […]
The beginning and end of creation..
This painting followed a dream I had, in which I was standing on the edge of the universe watching its creation and destruction simultaneoulsy.It was.. Vladislav who pointed out the telling peacock’s feathers just immerging; apparently these herald the start of integration and re-birth, (albedo) in an initiate who has gone through the necessary baptism […]
A poem I engraved on a sheet of steel pinned to stone, that describes my own experience of the nature of alchemy.
It was many years after creating this work, that I read about the ‘The Emerald Tablet’. This is a collection of philosophical treatise known as’The Corpus Hermeticum,’ that was said to have been written by the illusive Hermes Tremegistus, possibly as early as 300 AD. Apparently copies of it were often engraved on metal, a […]
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus.
The Emerald Tablet, also known as the Smaragdine Table, or Tabula Smaragdina, is a compact and cryptic piece of Hermetica reputed to contain the secret of attaining the prima materia through transmutation. It was highly regarded by European alchemists as the foundation of their art and its Hermetic tradition. Although Hermes Trismegistus is the author […]
Sir Isaac Newton’s translation of the Emerald Tablet.
It is true without lying, certain and most true. That which is Below is like that which is Above and that which is Above is like that which is Below to do the miracles of the Only Thing. And as all things have been and arose from One by the mediation of One, so all […]
Lightning strikes, a painting that reveals my first major shift of consciousness.
In symbolic terms, a bolt of lightning represents a sudden and unexpected descent of Divine power and light that can activate a major spiritual re-birth. This is certainly what happeded to me, it even inspired my last collection of clothes, ‘Space gypsies from the lightning realms.’ It is also said to be a jolt from […]