Art is a mirror. A window into the observable universe that slumbers within you and me
SURREALIST,
DRAUGHTSMAN,
SPIRITUAL ARTIST
“At first glance the people like me find the people like me a bit strange, but then we realize it is just how we are supposed to be”
My mission is to make the magick surrounding us visible once more. To show you, me, and even strangers dwelling in the forest how magick touches us. How it has always surrounded us. And how we never truly lost it. My art is a mirror. A line to the subconscious that slumbers within you. I want to give you the magick within you. To show you what you never really lost.
Life experience
2018 - present day
Making art and magick
At one momen or in all the moments below, Arjan Winkelaar found surrealism in his life. How everything he was trying to find, was an accumulation of surrealism. And most of all that surrealism was actually magick in artistic form. That everything he did was formed by magick. Not long after that he stopped mucking about and started making spiritual art. As surrealism in the purest form, like it was indented all those years ago.
2015 - 2018
Finding the artistic voice and delving in magick
Art and making art was always a part of the life of Arjan Winkelaar. Sometimes lingering on the background, other times in full view. Yet in Alkmaar his artistic voice came to a full bloom. He started selling his art, learned there were people fan of my work. And magick started to play an greater in his life then before.
2015
Moving to Alkmaar
After finding a new love in his life. A person who wanted him for the person he was and not who they thought he could be. Being in a relationship with mutual respect and the only expectation making each other happy, Arjan Winkelaar felt comfortable to leave the village were he spent most of my life. A new chapter.
2012 - 2014
Re-inventing his being
Life wasn’t what he expected. Work came to a grinding halt. Relationships fell apart and people he called friends drifted away. Something had to change and the only thing he could change was himself. Arjan Winkelaar needed to return to the person he was before all this. The child with the magickal consciousness. He needed to find who he was, before he became the one he couldn’t be.
2008 - 2012
Still trying to fit in
After an ugly divorce came the life after. Still trying to be as normal as he could be. Pursuing a career, having a relationship with lovely ladies and faling a both. Happiness lay elsewhere, but Arjan Winkelaar wasn’t sure where to find what he was looking for. Magick started to re-appear in his subconsciousness.
2003
Second child
Being a father of one child was like riding a bike with just one wheel. A second child was the cherry on top and more then welcome. Life was still very blessed and the horizon looked like sunshine.
2000
First child
During his marriage the long time wish of having children became reality. Becoming and being a father was one of the best things that happend to him in this life. It was a blessed time in it’s own way.
1999 - 2008
Married life
Being married to someone was, for him, a important aspect. Being married, having a job and a steady income. Being normal in his own way. That was how life should be. Until it all blew up and Arjan Winkelaar realized he wasn’t happy in the life he had chosen. An ugly divorce followed the seemingly happy married life.
Create alchemic symbols for your subconscious
Show you how magick touch us,
how alchemy surrounds us
and why we have never truly lost it
To make the magick surrounding us
visible once again
1995 - 2014
Losing his religion
At some moment in time Arjan Winkelaar became disappointed in everything. The music he listened, the magick said to be preached, the people he loved. Nothing was living up to expiations (or at least that was what he thought). Trying to live a normal life started.
1984 - 1995
Introduction to magick and finding moon music
Magick came to Arjan Winkelaar through music. Not the normal music from the radio and top40, which he disliked for a great deal, but from hearing experimental music. Bands and the likes of Current 93, Coil and Psychic TV. They talked about alternate realities, changing your universe and most of all about magick. Their words and interests created a universe filled wit a sea of love, manifestation and change.
1972 - 1984
Growing up
Within the universe of his early childhood there were the first friendships, losing grounds, finding his magical consciousness, attending school and being respectful to our elders. And eating greens, while wearing sensible shoes.
1971
Day of birth
It was the 9th of August. Arjan Winkelaar is born between dust and chards of glass. The universe looked upon us and saw it was good.
