Underground culture site DangerousMinds.net recently posted an article on Ithell Colquhoun, an artist well known in occult circles who’s gaining more mainstream recognition these days. The jumping off point for this piece is Fulgur Publishing’s release of Colquhoun’s Decad of Intelligence a collection of esotheric paintings and related poetic writings. An excerpt of the article says:
Not only was that at work in ensuring that painter/poet Ithell Colquhoun remained an obscure figure, but there’s her strong supernatural bent. Surrealism’s interest in automatism in writing and drawing was held in service of suppressing the discipline of the conscious mind in order to develop the unconscious, triggering creativity-enhancing states. But Colquhoun used surrealism’s methods in the service of Hermeticism. She sought not merely the unconscious, but the mystical and transcendent. This pursuit led to her ouster from the official English surrealist group in 1940. She continued to paint, eschewing her early representational style in favour of increasing automatism, and she increased her involvement in the occult, participating in the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Golden Dawn splinter group Stella Matutina.
read the entire article: https://dangerousminds.net/art/ithell-colquhoun-occult-surrealist-painter/
