John Balance (Coil) ... Drawings from Bright Lights and Cats With No Mouths ~ The Art of John Balance Collected

The first ever extensive overview of art (drawings, paintings and sketches) created by John Balance.

The artworks featured in the book are both finished elaborate hallucinatory pieces as well as quick sketches with a good sprinkling of Balance’s often underestimated humour. 

Homages to idols and inspirations next to idiosyncratic magical dreamscapes

executed in a wide variety of styles and mediums

Compiled by Liam Thomas and Thighpaulsandra - with text by

Val Denham and Jeremy Reed.

The Art of John Balance Collected 

Rufino Tamayo... Venus Noire, Colour Lithograph 1969

Margaret Burroughs (1917-2010) ~ Black Venus ~ 1957

Bernd Streiter ... for Georg Trakl, with Black Angel drypoint 1989

Bernd Streiter

Cecil Collins (1908-1989)... Angels Dancing around the Sun and Moon 1950

Angels Dancing around the Sun and Moon

Hilma AF Klint ~ Mother and Child, watercolour 1931

Dolorosa De La Cruz... new drawings in upcoming issue of Anathema Pillars Journal: PILLARS .III. “The Ebon Kteis”

Three art works of mine are featured in the upcoming Anathema Pillars Journal: PILLARS .III. “The Ebon Kteis”

PRE-ORDERS for PILLARS .III. “The Ebon Kteis” are now opened!

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'The Ebon Kteis' delves into the subtle beauty that lies at the threshold of Eros & Thanatos, and what has oft' been referred to as “la petite mort”: the strange connection that exists between orgasm, the loss of the senses and the ultimate release of Death; both Symbolic having a real strong bond to one another.

The subject is exploited from various angles; within witchcraft, tantrism, the necromantic arts, romanticism, et cetera (of course always leaving much interpretative power to the contributors). - Also pertaining to this Issue will be a huge emphasis on the many ways to go about the Sabbatical Rites of Soul-Flight and Congress, whether with fellow brethren or by means of Self-Initiation.

Detail of La Del SoL ~ Dolorosa , pastel on paper 2014

George Russell AE (1867-1935) ~ Aeons as yet Unrolled

Born Today ... Rosaleen Miriam "Roie" Norton, October 2, 1917, Dunedin, New Zealand

image: The Hag , watercolour

...My home is the house of winds,

With great songs of Space ringing wild in my ears

Whose shouting heart leaps to their tune.

I mock at the shapes, plodding thickly, through lamplight:

stupid and cruel - or kind -

They are alien, Other, I'm touched with uneasiness...

Fear of these human.... and glide away sidelong:

Yet joying in fear, in my stealthy aloofness,

To know they are They and I'm I.

Towers of old cities are spiralling over me, Night-conjured,

rising from Time

And I hear, through the seething of luminous silence -

Secretive, vibrant, the sound of the Solitude -

Calling of others like me

Quietly they come, flitting softly as secrets; light-footed,

velvety, swift...

With eyes gleaming green, lambent flame of the Opal.

Kindred... we signal our quick recognition.

I am I ... but I know we are we

Panther of silence; god of Night; Lord of the wild inhuman

stars:

You are my own; teeming soul of solitude.

Here is no loneliness, secret Master -

You, Dark Spirit are with me. RN

Alice Rahon (1904-1987) - drawings for costumes 1946

    

Costumes for her production of Orion~ el gran hombre del cielo, it was never produced in her lifetime.

It was later revived in 2009 for a retrospective of Rahon's work at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico.

Dolorosa de la Cruz ~ Portrait of Unica Zürn ~ Pencil on Paper 2014

Dolorosa de la Cruz ~ Portrait of Unica Zürn ~ Pencil on Paper 2014

Leonor Fini ... lithograph ... illustration for The Roman de la Rose... 1976ed

The Roman de la Rose ~ One of the most influential poems of the Middle Ages

Guillaume de Lorris began writing it around 1237 but never finished it. Forty years later, around 1277, Jean de Meun completed the tale.