'What Endures' - Inaugural Exhibition at Boleskine House, Inverness-shire

At The Roots of Silence

I'm delighted that this painting has been selected for the inaugural exhibition at Boleskine House, overlooking Loch Ness in Scotland.

What Endures

5th April - 21st June 2026

The picture is available, but this is not a 'selling' exhibition. Please contact me with enquiries.

Boleskine is a place steeped in local history, as well as more widely known and mysterious associations with the rich tapestry of occultism in Britain during the late 19th and 20th century. The building itself was devastated by fire in recent years, and has undergone a complete rebuild/renovation. From what I have seen it looks like there has been tremendous attention to quality and detail in all aspects, creating a characterful environment for the charitable foundation to go about its mission.

With an emphasis on heritage, arts, and culture, the organisation is developing a library dedicated to the scholarly study of esotericism, and looks set to become a deeply important center for spiritual nourishment in the UK.

I recommend visiting the excellent Boleskine House website for further information.

From the Boleskine website:

Boleskine House stands as a beacon of local heritage. The estate’s story weaves together echoes of early modern Highland history, including tales surrounding the Jacobite rebellion and its legends of Highland resistance and resilience. The house and grounds hold a tangible connection to the region’s rich past and offer a space to delve into the area’s historic and cultural significance.

It also shares a unique place within Western mystery traditions, most famously through its association with former estate owner Aleister Crowley (1875—1947), the famed mountaineer, author, and occultist.

About my Art: Landscape and The Numinous

Situated between the contemporary and the devotional, my paintings and mixed-media drawings explore landscape and the Numinous. The work describes an immediacy of personal experience, and reverence for Earth's varied forms and places as living presences. In the vastness of their physicality, mountains move us into a sense of deep time far beyond the span of our own human bodies. For me, this points toward the magical origin of our true essence in silence, and that within us we contain eternity.

Such places have been a source of lifelong fascination to me, both in terms of encounters with awe and wonder, as well as the cultural and spiritual significance that they embody. Featuring in wisdom traditions, myth, and folklore around the world, these most striking of earthly expressions are often considered to be transformative and liminal places, where the natural and ‘supernatural’ meet. Existing at the threshold of the unknown, they are the abode of divine beings, entrances into the otherworld, or intimately connected with the ancestral history of a community. They are often considered to be not only the dwelling places of the sacred, but revered as entities in themselves. 

My art explores that liminality by using forms that may feel familiar and relatable as a ‘place’, whilst simultaneously suggesting something more enigmatic at the edge of our senses.

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Andrew Phillips is a Visual Artist, Psychotherapist, and Creative Mentor.

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