The Black Sun has belonged to a deeper current in my life and artwork for many years. Taking Stanton Marlan’s The Black Sun as a point of departure, this essay explores alchemy, lumen naturae, darkness, imagination and the changing presence of these ideas within my landscape paintings.

I am not an astrologer, but astrology has become part of the wider spiritual, magical and psychological landscape through which I think about psyche and meaning.

Patrick Harpur's The Philosopher's Secret Fire explores a forgotten understanding of imagination. Not fantasy or invention, but a living realm where myth, psyche, and world meet. This article reflects on imagination in psychotherapy, creative practice, and the imaginal dimension of reality.

There are certain ideas that seem to sit just beneath the surface of modern life, recognised in fragments, but rarely given their full significance. Imagination is one of them. In Lost Knowledge of the Imagination, Gary Lachman explores how imagination has been misunderstood, marginalised, and often reduced to something trivial or unreal within Western culture. What emerges instead is a very different picture. One in which imagination is not a secondary function of the mind,

A personal reflection on Alchemy & Mysticism, alchemical imagery, Dürer, Blake, the Splendor Solis, and the connections between art, transformation, and depth psychology.

An exploration of material becoming living presence in the art object. Jungian analyst Warren Colman explores the formation of archetypes as derived from human engagement with their social and material environment. This is a phenomenological approach which sees psychic life as emergent from embodied action in the world, in contrast to a classical Jungian perspective which would view archetypes as pre-existent, either “inborn” biologically, or metaphysically a priori. As I und