František Drtikol (1883–196) ... Third Eye, pastel 1930-1940

Jeanne Mammen... Pencil drawing 1930

Grace W, Pailthorpe (1883-1971)... Untitled watercolour c1940

Rudolf Schlichter ~ Drei Frauen. Lithograph Ca. 1913.

Rudolf Schlichter signed his erotic and pornographic works with the pseudonym "Udor Retyl".

Grace W. Pailthorpe (1883-1971) Sea creatures, watercolour 1967

Grace W. Pailthorpe (1883-1971) ~ Sea creatures, watercolour 1967

Alex Székely(1901-1968)... Charles Baudelaire, Hősszerelmesek 1943

Ex Libris... Alex Székely(1901-1968)

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis... Finale, from cycle SONATA I (Sonata of the Sun) 1907

Bona Tibertelli de Pisis (1926-200) ... Lubricità, 1970

J.B. de Lapin... Les Erreurs de l'amour 1925

Valentine Hugo (1887-1968)... Spirit of the Sunflower, 1934

Josette Exandier (1944-2008) ... La fée Morgasme, assemblage of mixed media, 2007

André Lambert (1884-1929)... Dix sujets aimables dans le goût antique 1916

Etruscan art, III-II BC. AD perivisceral anatomical votive, terracotta, Italy, Lazio

Pierre Louys (1870-1925)...Trois filles de leur mère 1926

Thomas Theodor Heine (1867-1948)... Sea Creatures date unknown

Jean-Michel Moreau (1741-1814)... Garçon Hermaphrodite 1773

Feofilaktov, Nikolai Petrovich (1878-1941)...drawing, untitled 1906

Gerardo Chávez...Le magicien sans age ,1978.

Born today... Elisabeth Frink,November 14, 1930, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Spinning Man IV 1965

The Merchant's Tale 1972

The Summoner's Tale 1972

Salisbury Madonna c.1981

John Balance...16 February 1962 – 13 November 2004 coloured pencil and crayon drawing, title and date unknown

Cecil Collins (1908-1989) ...The Fall of Lucifer 1933

Paul Lormier... Infernal Apparition 1848

Stefano della Bella...Study of a Satyr,1647

John B. Trinick and Wilfrid Pippet ...Album of the Great Symbols of the Paths, 1917-1923

designs for a set of tarot images commissioned by A.E. Waite 1917-1923 Album of the Great Symbols of the Paths

Unica Zürn (1916-1970) .. drawing, Das ist der Honig-General

Leonora Carrington... Bat-men (How true my love) 1950

Raúl Anguiano ... La Llorona (The Weeping Woman), 1942.

Odilon Redon... The Green Death, oil on canvas 1905

Adrien Barrere...Le Sorcier (Grand Guignol) c.1900, Paris

Hans Baldung Grien...woodcut initial 1513

Brascassat Jacques Raymond...La Sorcière oil on canvas 1835

Pierre Molinier 1900-1976) ... Le Baphomet 1968-1971

Born today...Francis Bacon, October 28, 1909, Dublin, Ireland

Head I oil on board 1948

photo @Alastair Thain 1987

''human life is concentrated bestially in the mouth’' ,

Georges Bataille, ‘La Bouche’, Documents, Paris 1930

Damp, jaggèd, like an old man’s mouth drivelling, beyond repair,

Or the toothed gullet of an agèd shark

T. S. Eliot Ash Wednesday (1930)

‘'the forces of the cosmos confronting an intergalactic traveller immobile in his capsule’' 

Deleuze on Bacons Heads series

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery” - Francis Bacon

Dolorosa de la Cruz @ Stephen Romano Gallery ... Magica Sexualis Exhibition October 29 - December 15 2015

am delighted to have been invited to be part of this show, Magica Sexualis co-curated by 

 Barry William Hale and Stephen Romano

Invocation of la Reina Roja 2 2014 gouache pencil and gold ink

Vowed series no 5 2010 gouache pencil and gold ink

"MAGICA SEXUALIS"