Ithell Colquhoun’s work stands at the crossroads of art, magic, and social reform. Rooted in landscape, myth, and the living intelligence of matter, her paintings and writings speak powerfully to contemporary longings for depth, enchantment, and ecological relationship.

A personal reflection on how astrology and depth psychology meet within the shared language of symbolism, offering new ways to understand psyche, relationship, and meaning.

Different landscapes in our sense of the world also speak to us differently, and here it serves us to consider the aspect of ‘North’ in Phillips’s work. Made on and of the chalklands of England’s South Downs, then nurtured and moulded in art school in South Wales (where his dissertation for his degree in Fine Art provides us with another clue -  ‘Remedy in the Affliction: Beginning with the Wound’) the intervening years have slowly led the artist Northwards.

What if the ecological crisis is not only environmental, but spiritual? A therapist and artist reflects on Spiritual Ecology and the sacred call of the Earth.

Last week I visited the west country, during a spell of unusually prolonged warm and sunny weather for the British Isles during spring. Here are some of the places that drew my attention. The Power Of Dartmoor The granite Tors of Dartmoor. I found these places profoundly strange and powerful, with the unusual forms of rock that occupy the peaks and have prominence over the land for many surrounding miles. Shaped by millenia of glacial activity and weathering, some of them app

"If there is ever to be any real peace on earth, all people need to relearn and reestablish the now diminished and hidden arts of Grief...

I love this Taschen volume. I see in these pages evidence that even when partly instructional or diagrammatic, to approach the opus...

"Traveller there is no path. The path is made by walking." We might hear this excerpt from a poem by Antonio Machado in relation to feeling stuck, alone, or lost. These lines suggest that if there is a path ahead which seems clear and well-trodden (i.e. ‘easy’) then perhaps it is not your own path that you are walking. Even if we experience a deep certainty about the way, we might recognise challenging terrain ahead and fear to tread it. Alluding to the necessity for active p

"Images arise from the fountainhead of human life--the heart, the solar centre from ancient memories in the blood, and from the polarity and fire of the spirit." Cecil Collins is an artist I have a great appreciation for. This book documents the thoughts and reflections of many of those who knew him, whether as a collector, curator, student of his unique teaching methods, or through other connections. "The purpose of Art is to worship and praise life through wonder and magic.

In the current newsletter I explore strands of my life and art that seem subtly interwoven with Arthur Machen, a writer of mysterious and...