THE HISTORY

      This painting was created during the final trimester I taught at The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art - The Alchemy of Paint in the winter of 2019. Together with my students, we developed the prima materia as a kind of massa confusa - a swirling alembic of paint that we could stare into to see what kind of imagery might evolve. 

     Later in the course I demonstrated how to apply gold leaf, and the circle of gold at the centre was the result - the Aurum Philosophorum as it was called. 

THE ALCHEMY OF PAINT

      During the course, I gave a series of lectures on The Alchemy of Paint which were filmed and are now available below as well as in the Lecturer section of this website.

ALCHEMY, VISIONS & ART

A series of seven lectures on ALCHEMY, VISIONS & ART were recorded

(the most popular ~ The Gnostic Worldview ~ has received over 100,000 views)

1. AN INTRODUCTION TO ALCHEMY 
2. THE SOURCES OF ALCHEMY 
3. A HISTORY OF ALCHEMY 
4. THE ALCHEMY OF COLOUR 

5. ALCHEMY AND VISIONARY ART 
6. THE ALCHEMY OF PAINTING MEDIUMS & PIGMENTS
7. THE GNOSTIC WORLDVIEW