Texts

 

This section of the website contains short texts on various aspects of Colquhoun’s work. 

 

Where individual works of art are named and highlighted, the link will take you to the relevant entry in the catalogue section.  Use the back button on your brower to return to the text.

 

If you make use of what I have written, please remember that an acknowledgement and a reference are always required.

 

All text © Richard Shillitoe, 2006-11

 

Visual art: career overview

      early work

      travels

      flower paintings

      surrealism

      Mayor Gallery, 1939

      automatism

      the 1950s

      constructions and collages

      enamel paint

      late nature paintings

      commercial work

 

Writings

    introduction

    The Crying of the Wind: Ireland

    The Living Stones: Cornwall

    Goose of Hermogenes

    I Saw Water

    The Sword of Wisdom

    poetry

    automatic writing

    short prose texts

 

Automatism

    introduction

    automatism and surrealism

    automatism and psychopathology

    automatism and the occult

    automatic techniques

 

Transitions and Transformations

    introduction

    alchemy

    the water-stone of the wise

    transformations

    transitional places

    transforming the world

 

Esoterica

    introduction

    magical societies

    magic and colour

    force fields and life forces

    sacred geometry

    taro

    goddess spirituality

    mother goddess

    nurturing mother

 

Sex and Gender

      introduction

      early work: sex before surrealism

      sex, surrealism and alchemy

      double standards, double images

      emasculating the gods

      the occult gendering of divinity and humankind     

      the myth of the androgyne

      in search of the androgyne

      Christian marriage

      blood imagery

      Toni del Renzio and 'the monogamic tendency'

        gendered landscapes

     

Miscellanea

    the Golden Section

    Santa Warna

    signatures and sigils

    dreams and the occult

 

 

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