Adam McLean
Some recent paintings.
McLean's recent works are all in the standard size of 16 x 12 inches (40 x 30 cms). All are in oils on canvas. Most of his paintings involve detailed work, especially with 00 brushes, and take weeks of full time work to finish. McLean is not an artist in the modern sense, entirely given up to self expression, but rather someone endeavouring to create facsimilies of key alchemical and hermetic works in the medium of oil painting. This makes his paintings quite unique - old fashioned exact copies of traditional hermetic images rather than wild expressions of personal insights. As he is primarily involved in publishing books, running the alchemy web site and study courses in alchemical symbolism, he does not have much time to devote to painting, so he can only produce a few completed works each year. This makes these paintings quite collectable. All the works he produced in 2000 were quickly sold. Unfortunately the photographs shown here do not reveal the detail in the paintings. He usually employs a heavy classical style of frame, as this, he feels, suits these works.
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Paintings from May 2001.
Paintings in preparation June/July 2001.
Paintings from May/June 2000.
Paintings from June/July 2000.
All the paintings from 2000 have now been sold. Adam McLean is currently working on some new paintings and images of these should be made available on the site late from June 2001. If you wish to purchase or have further information on his paintings please email alchemy@dial.pipex.com.