This painting reveals how deeply entrenched in the process I was: I had unconsciously become the architypal ouroborus of ancient hermetic writings. It also shows how my head has mataphorically taken on the form of a pearl in a shell through the continual aggravation of the grit of my life. All our destructive emotions have […]
Words of alchemist and Taoism, Chang Po-tuan 893-1082
When the sweet dew descends, heaven and earth join, where the yellow sprouts, water and fire mix. When the elixir is fully developed, naturally gold fills the room, what is the need to look for herbs and practice burning reeds.
A treasure from the deep.
This goblet or grail that I created at the start of my journey represented my longing for the kind of erotic passionate love of soul mates more akin to a sacred heavenly union, rather than anything of this earth, though I did not realise it at the time. Indeed the divine breath it held suspended […]
An illustration by Auther Rackham of the Holy Grail.
This image portrays better than any words could, just how inspired with love and devotion I felt to something so much greater than myself, something so divine that I was willing to go into the flaming cauldron of fire to seek the truth, or to ‘put myself into the test tube,’ not just for myself, […]
The reluctant alchemist.
First of all I want to be clear, I am not an academic and neither did I set out in life to become anything as odd as an alchemist, even if I had known what it was. In fact coming from a severely impoverished background, my main aim in life was to become a famous […]
The sea of unconsciousness gives up its treasures.
During the early dramatic shifts of consciousness I felt compelled to create strange sculptures that looked as though they had been dragged up from the ocean bed. They reveal just how much power Neptune had over me at that time.
Loves divine illusion.
Now still, now calm oh weary pain, enshrined, entwined, embraced,This my life’s illusion, this precious romance, caressed by tides of time eternal,Dead and buried now, in distant grave my ocean’s love remains, unreachable by man.
My obsessive love affair with Neptune and the role his myth played in my transformation
As I recall I was so infatuated I no choice, I fell ‘hook line and sinker’, for he immerged out of the ocean waves of those vast inner seas, like the god of all gods, his trident gleaming, his body glistening in the sunlight, his hair and beard rippling like the very foam itself, to claim […]
The mermaid’s grotto on the ocean bed.
This picture is taken from a story I wrote about a young girl who fell madly and erotically in love with the ocean, with the mystical Sea King, Neptune, that visionary dreamer, that god of dissolution and immateriality, with his elevated principals of truth and beauty and perfection… In fact everything that I craved for […]
The ancient alchemists and their beliefs.
Having not read any hermetic texts before I began my journey, I was delighted to read much later that the ancient alchemists of China, India and Egypt, all held the same belief as myself. Namely that behind the reality of our world lay an overall unity where ultimate truth could be unveiled using ones intuition […]