Ithell Colquhoun ... A Visitation... 1944

Diego Rivera ... La noche de los rábanos... 1946

Born today... René Magritte, November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium

Studies for the beyond, ca 1938 Pencil on Paper

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré ... from the series Mythological Beast... 1948

In the 1970s, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré started to transfer his thoughts to hundreds of small drawings in postcard format, using a ballpoint pen and colour crayons. These drawings, gathered under the title of Connaissance du Monde (Knowledge of the World), form an encyclopedia of universal knowledge and experience. Other projects, such as Readings from Signs Observed in Oranges (1988), serve as visionary records of divination. For Bouabré, his drawings are representation of everything that is revealed or concealed—signs, divine thoughts, dreams, myths, the sciences, traditions—and he views his role as an artist as a redemptive calling. He has stated: “Now that we are recognized as artists, our duty is to organize into a society, and in such a way to create a framework for discussion and exchange among those who acquire and those who create. From that could arise a felicitous world civilisation.”

“the heavens opened up before my eyes and seven colorful suns described a circle of beauty around their Mother-Sun, I became Cheik Nadro: ‘He who does not forget.’”

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Venus of Syria ... Hellenistic Period... ca. 2nd/1st century BC.

Val Denham ...Venus finds her arms... pencil and watercolour 1997

The Goddess Chinnamasta... Pahari, Mankot c 1750

Alastair (Hans Henning Voight)...watercolour drawing 1929

an illustration for the Black Sun Press edition of Les Liasons Dangereuses c.1929

Yayoi Kusama... Face no 5... 1953

gouache, Chinese ink and pastel on paper

Victor Brauner...Anthropomorphic Mimicry of the collective consciousness 1961

oil, wax, wood and bark on panel

Toyen (MARIE ČERMÍNOVÁ) 1902-1980.... Portrait of Andre Breton ... 1950

signed and dedicated à andré Breton / Toyen / 18 II 1950 

crayon, charcoal, oil and glitter on linen, held by two wood batons as a scroll

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