Drawing on prints
The many faces of Jesus
Talismans
Deities from thrifted pieces
Ars Goetia
Intuitive drawings of demons
Intuitive art on paper
The feeling of lines on paper is more magnetic then paint can be. Drawing is the best way to be guided by your intuition. Automatic drawing is the way, my way.
Deities and altar pieces
Made from materials found in thrift stores and clay from the earth. Brought to life under my hands, guided by the spirits that will inhabit them. Ritually infused with divine energy and intention.
/ All made from thrifted items
/ Process guided by the spirit/deity
/ Infused with divine energy and intention
ARJAN WINKELAAR
Intuitive draftsman – Surrealist – Chaos magick – Spiritual artist
W hy Magnetic fields?
In 1919 André Breton and Phillipe Soupalt wrote the book ‘Les Champs magnétiques’ (the Magnetic fields) which was published the year after. For many this was a pivotal moment in art history, as it is considered the actual birth of the Surrealist movement.
The Magnetic fields was written in one frenzied week in a hotel room. As an experiment in writing, without revising and agreed by the authors to just write. Through the use of automatic writing they suppressed their conscious control over the process and tap directly into their subconsciousness. The result was a dreamlike text, full of disjoined prose and poetic imagery. A real exploration of the subconscious mind.
Automatic writing is also seen as a way to tab into the spirit world. A way of communicating with spirits and deities, which was populair in the late nineteen and early twentieth century. This occult practice of automatic writing has a long history. In China there is a extensive history of ‘Spirit writing’ or Fuij. Spanish Kabbalists in Spain engaged in automatic writing, which may have been the the method that produced the ‘Zohar’. And in the sixteen century John Dee and Edward Kelly were dictated the Enochian language through automatic writing.
The practice was always present and the Surrealist movement was drenched in spiritualism, magic and the occult practices of the past. Being a surrealist was more then tapping into your dream states, it was being in touch with the spirit world and occultism. The place were our subconscious meet dreams of the Gods.
W ho is Arjan Winkelaar?
Born between shared of glass and dusty things Arjan Winkelaar encountered the world with a fresh pair of eyes. For him is was filled with magical things, monsters, ghosts and everything his mind could think off. He grew up in a suburban village, but for him it was a forest filled with adventure and things.
From the moment he could hold a pencil he started drawing. Like most children do he drew without conscious thought. Letting his hands be guided by the lines and not trying to make sense of what it became. This practice never left him and as soon as he discovered the world of the Surreal all things magical stayed. It was from that moment that he knew the world around us, is also the world within us.
Occultism and magick soon followed. First through the writings of Aleister Crowley and the drawings of Austin Osman Spare. In later life by the practice of Chaos Magick and deeper dives in the world of occult writings.
In his art magick and spiritism always was present. Sometimes as a tiny speck, a flicker, other times clear and present as daylight. These days his art is more then just ‘art’. They are portals to the spirit world. Windows to the unseen and occult. Spiritually infused representations of the universal energy. Arjan Winkelaar has gone back to the true spirit of the original Surrealists, making visions of dreams and our subconscious.
