Ithell Colquhoun

Ithell Colquhoun ( born October 9, 1906 in Shillong, † 11 April 1988 in Lamorna ) was a British artist, poet, writer and practicing alchemist. Colquhoun is considered significant representative of surrealism.

Life

Ithell Colquhoun was born in Shillong, British India, visited the Cheltenham Ladies College and studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

She has toured France to study Salvador Dali's work, participated in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in part and has had numerous exhibitions in England and Germany. In 1940, she was excluded because of their occult studies of ELT Mesens from the Surrealist association.

Since the forties Colquhoun spent a lot of time in Cornwall, where in 1959 finally settling. She felt the Cornish countryside closely linked, what they in many paintings, poems, and her book The Living Stones: brought Cornwall (1957 ) for expression.

Ithell Colquon became involved in various mystical Rosicrucian communities and joined the techniques learned there with her ​​artistic work. Many of her paintings created with Décalcomanie, the technique of " automatic painting " as Äquivaltent to automatic writing, as for example by W. B. Yeats was used. Like Yeats Colquhoun wanted to achieve the connection between their mystical and create their work in this way. She has published numerous articles on alchemical and occult themes and wrote a book about SL MacGregor Mathers, the founder of the Order of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Your images later they signed with the monogram of her religious Names Soror Splendidior vitro.

When her last major work in 1977, she designed a set of 78 images, each showing a kind of abstract surrealist translation of the Rider -Waite Tarot.

On April 11, 1988 Ithell Colquhoun died in Menwinnion Country House Hotel in Marazion (Cornwall) of heart failure.

Work

Colquhoun works can be found among others in London at the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery (London) and at the Tate Gallery, and the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Initially Colquhoun worked with what became known by Dali double vision technique, an example linked below today located in the Tate Gallery Picture " Scylla ", from 1939, they experimented with Décalcomanie and other techniques " automatic " painting would be. With this technique, created her as the series of the 78 Tarot card images.

Bibliography

  • The Prose of Alchemy. The Quest. Vol 21 ( 3) April 1930 pp. 294-303.
  • Salvo for Russia, 1942 ( Article)
  • The Fortune Anthology, 1942 ( Article)
  • The Living Stones Cornwall, 1957
  • The Two Silurists. Prediction, Vol 37, No 7 July 1971. Pp. 22-24. Thomas Vaughan, the alchemist, and his brother.
  • Notes on the Colouring of the Homer's Golden Chain Diagram. Hermetic Journal, 1979. no 6 pp 15-17.
  • The Rosie Crucian Secrets: Their Excellent Method of Making Medicines of Metals So Their Lawes and Mysteries, 1985 ( Introduction)
  • Ithell Colquhoun: Sword of Wisdom, MacGregor Mathers and the " Golden Dawn". Kersken - Canbaz, Bergen 1996, ISBN 3-89423-030-4.
  • Goose of Hermogenes, 2003, ISBN 978-0720611779
  • The Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun, 2007 (edited by Steve Nichols ), ISBN 978-1847531629
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