A Gallery of EsotErotic Artwork by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule in the diverse media of pen and pencil, oil paints, egg tempera, gouache, clay, bronze, semi-digital and photography. Detail of 'Dance of the New Flesh' -inks, watercolour pencils, silver gold and copper leaf One of the original paintings which will appear in Orryelle's new book 'Esezezus', coming late 2022 from Grayle Press. Bronze Sculpture: Hermes Edition of Six only. One remains available (Sept.2022). Approx. 30 cm tall (hand in photo at right for scale), 5kg (solid bronze). Detachable Caduceus staff (locks into two alternate hand positions). Garnet in third eye. $880 US or equivalent -payment plans available with deposit. Please contact [email protected] regarding availability. Thrice Greatest Hermes! Thrice Greatest Hermes! Thrice Greatest Hermes! Amorous erogenous One Androgynous Two Ambitious Ambiguous Three? Arbitrary One of AmorouseeAndrogynous Ambiguity Immoral immortal antiquity Ever-young Fertile Virility Swift-changing One Fleet-footed One Silver-tongued One Twain-tongued One Feather-fledged One Swift-pinioned Three Ways of the inbe tween Seer of celestial choir Ear of the Vision Lord of the Crossroads Arbiter of Division Architect of Angles Messenger of Angels Swift Leaper Emissary of the Mysteries Herald of Deities -Verses from Orryelle's new book 'Esezezus' -coming soon... Above Right: The first Hermes bronze installed within the Herm (rock-piles placed at Crossroads as homage to the God of Travellers) at Le Chalet Crepuscule, Orryelle's sculpture park in progress in the Ardennes Forest, Belgium Above: The wings on Hermes' feet, ears and Caducues staff were originally cast from actual wren wings (roadkill) so have all the fine details of the feathers Right: Each Hermes bronze has affixed to/as its Third Eye/Ajna Chakra a small garnet sifted by the artist from a special river in the rainforests of Washington state, USA 'Hermes: The God of Travel & Communications in the Mess-Age' Navigating the Wheels of Fate and Chaos in the Age of mis/information, the Messenger God Hermes traverses wyrd realms. His footprints (and their reverse imprints betwixt, for timemit flows back as well as forth) in the ethers, merge and mesh with hands of action, whose fingers weave with feathers. From these flights of fancy, his Caduceus staff is fledged, one wing's plumes rise and fall to meet -in a great lemniscate twist- (upon the road before Him) his winged feet... (detail at left) Limited signed print available. Edition of 23 only, on a beautiful textured Epson watercolour paper, approx. 29cm x 44cm/ 12" x 16" (A3 oversize), for $23: Giant 'Escherotic wallpaper' prints of Orryelle's new work (above) now available: This large no-negative-space drawing inter-connects on each side with copies of itself. Originally created as interactive Samhain veils for 'Skin Surface Substance', now released as a kind of psychedelic escherotic 'wallpaper'. The combination of repeated imagery and lack of negative 'empty' space at this large size creates a pattern-induced hypnagogic effect in the space where it is hung or pasted. The image above is reduced down from three joined panels Right: Orryelle interacting with the multiple panels as carne-veils in 'Skin Surface Substance'. NEW PRINT: 'Panorama' (above) Inks & watercolour pencils, May 2021 (detail at left) Large archival-quality signed giclee print available on a beautiful textured Epson Watercolour paper at the size of the original: 78cm x 53cm (30.7" x 20.9"). Edition of 11 copies only (9 remaining mid-June 2021), $80 each: BAPHOMET RING: Orryelle's first foray into jewellery. Sterling silver (912ct). Sized to order Edition of 33 only (Only 3 remaining early Oct 2021), comes with signed & numbered C.O.A. $69US (57eu/49gbp/$88AU) If interested please email Orryelle: [email protected] 3D-scanned, resized and lost-wax cast from the head of Orryelle's original Baphomet bronze sculpture. HEKATE Oils, Egg tempera, copper gold & silver leaf on canvas. Original sold (commission) NEW PRINT Large (approx.40cm x 60cm/23.6" x 15.7") high-quality giclee print on thick semi-gloss paper of this new painting Signed and hand-numbered in gold ink. Edition of 100 only. (38 remaining Sept 2021) $33 (plus postage) : Orryelle has taken hir EsotErotic explorations into film: 'In all my years I cannot recall witnessing video as palpably erotic as the long montage of bodies coalescing into one giant body for Orpheus; and the editing for the closing dance is the best job I've seen capturing what must have been a truly visceral experience for those filmed' -Giles Edwards, 366weirdmovies.com Three years in the making, SOLVE et COAGULA is a feature-length EsotErotic and Surreal journey of re-enchantment. With a weird mix of contemporary subculture and ancient archetypes, its central message of the reintegration of spirit and matter, mind and body is pertinent in our disconnected times... A hypnotic blend of live action and wax stop-animation, sometimes layered with the director's oil paintings. Online streaming ($3.33 rental, $9 purchase -or equivalent in your currency of choice) now available from the link at the end of the new trailer below. Solve et Coagula trailer (uncensored version) from Orryelle on Vimeo. Above: Sample pages from the 'SOLVE et COAGULA' limited edition book For ordering of the SOLVE et COAGULA Book (270 copies only) and DVD (includes streaming code), more sample pages and stills from the film, please go HERE. 'Babalon on the Beast' -Oils, Egg tempera, copper and gold leaf on canvas. 2018 (touched up 2020) NEW Limited High-Quality Giclee PRINT of this Painting now available: 49 COPIES ONLY (24 remaining May 23 2021), Signed and Numbered by the Artist, on a large semi-gloss coated thick paper 50cm x 35.6cm /approx. 20" x 14". Details from 'Babalon on the Beast' attempting to show the vibrancy of the original canvas and how the metallics (gold and copper leaf) glimmer in different light. $33 (+postage) : Original Painting on mounted canvas also available. (Oils, egg tempera, gold and copper leaf) 69cm x 48.5cm / 27" x19". $3600. Enquiries to [email protected] Orryelle has begun work on a sculpture park at his new base Le Chalet Crepuscule in the Ardennes forest, Belgium: Above you can see the first statue -Hekate Trimorphe Rexchthon (triple-form of the Ancient Greek/Thracian Goddess of Witchcraft, Erupting from the Underworld)- which was unveiled at the Lughnasad/Lammas Silver Dusk Gathering there in August 2018, and the second statue Cernunnos (Celtic Horned God) unveiled at the Beltaine full moon Gathering 2019. Bronze edition: Cernunnos. Edition of 7 only, 3 remain available Feb 2020: 33cm high, solid bronze 4kg. $850 each. Enquiries please email [email protected] This bronze was also the maquette on which the large statue was based. The original wax sculpture which this bronze was cast from was crafted on Beltaine (May 1st) 2018 at Le Chalet Crepuscule, so it seemed an apt cycle to unveil the large statue there at the Beltaine full moon Gathering 2019 New drawings 2018: 'Lilith & the Wind' and 'Maldon Moose' (above) and Habitat (below) -Approx. A3 size signed prints available upon request for $23US each (email [email protected]) Above: 'Sylvantica' - oils, copper & silver leaf, moss, on mounted canvas, 73cm x 59cm/ 28.7" x 23"; May 2017. Original available $4180; Approx. A3-sized signed giclee prints on German Etching Paper available upon request $28 - email [email protected] Below:Cernunnos & Dryad Porcelain clay, approx.70cm/28" tall Sculpture commission in Belgium, inspired by oil painting 'Elemental Symbiosis I' (image further below). Working photos, pre-installation. (Commission cost 350eu) Bronze Sculpture: DIONYSOS Edition of 7 only. $840 US each. Now SOLD OUT (March 2019) Thyrsus staff tip cast from a real miniature pinecone, wreath of hemp-stems and ivy, 'fur' garment from paperbark. The artist stretched and twisted the wax for each one of the edition so they are all different. The first one (above) is fairly minimal -just a little on the leg He's standing on- but this warping increased with each new one (made as ordered) as you can see in the last one (below) which is poised eternally on the precarious point twixt dynamic ecstasy and intoxicated collapse... Above: 'Elemental Symbiosis I (Air & Earth)' and 'Elemental Symbiosis II (Fire & Water)' Signed giclee prints of these two works available for $33 each or $60 for the pair (email [email protected]).Original canvases sold. 'Menstruum' -oils, egg tempera, copper leaf, acrylic base. Created during Orryelle's Artist Residency at Star & Snake. Intent to channel the spirits of the place by 'scrying in paint' (thanks for that description K.Lenore Siner) from the abstract underlayers. The 'esoteric' is inner as opposed to 'exoteric' (outer), so the title of this Gallery may seem self-contradictory as erotica is generally associated with the physical body and its sexual expressions. However Orryelle depicts more than just the outer forms in their interactions - hir images show the inner kundalini fire which inspires such activity, and the spirits and elemental phantasms which may emanate therefrom. This esoterotic Art is about the inter-play between the flesh and the spirit. Above: 'Time and Fate' -Oils, egg tempera, copper & silver leaf, crackling agent. March 2016. SIGNED LIMITED (151 copies only) LARGE GICLEE PRINT of BAPHOMET as SABBAT EGREGORE(below) This is one of the few images in COAGULA (publ.Fulgur Limited 2011) that was unable to be reproduced in all its detailed slendour within that Golden Tome: Due to its scale and the level of detail therein, only a large quality print can really reveal its intricacies. Above: Isolated FemmeFaun figure from wing at full size (lo res version) The spectacular size of the original pen and pencil drawings from which the piece was developed (mirrored in photoshop) - 74cm x 62cm / 29" x 24" - this quality poster-size giclee print is signed by the artist and numbered out of 151 copies only (31 copies left) for $50 each. Limited Signed Giclee Print available: MELEK TAUS & The PATH of VENUS -Oils, peacock-egg-tempera, gold, silver and copper leaf, snake scales, peacock feathers. Original sold. Detail below left, print ordering below symbolism text Melek Taus is the Peacock Angel of the Yeziddi, a sect of heretical Jews. S/He is the Lord/Lady (for all angels are ultimately androgynous or gynanders) of Matter, and thus is beseeched for anything regarding the material world, Jehovah being considered too remote to be concerned with the physical plane and the affairs of mortals. His name is also Shaitan, and to the Orthodox Jews He is Satan, the Opposer. However the Yezzidi view of Him is significantly different, for they do not see the physical plane as something ugly or unimportant to be transcended, rather they celebrate the beauty of form. Melek Taus is also associated with the Serpent -here seen as both the tail-biting Oroboros of cyclicity and the procreative force- and the Goat (whose Baphometic head is implicit in the apple's pentagrammatic seed-pods), and like Lucifer with the Morning Star, the planet Venus. Here S/He is depicted with the thus-associated Goddess Venus/Aphrodite, Her form in the shape of Her planet's orbit. Over an eight -year period Venus creates the pattern of a pentagram in the sky. That this shape also exists within the core of an apple links the planet further with the Adversary to religious orthodoxy. Thus the great perversion of mainstream religion is symbolically explicit: the apple, considered by Judaism and Christianity the fruit of original sin- contains not just the man Adam as Da Vinci depicted, but the feminine form, of the Goddess of Love. For these patriarchal orthodoxies have always feared the power of female sexuality and thus denigrated it as the origin of sin and temptation. Abolishing these patriarchal deviations, Truly this is sacred geometry at its most magical: the perfect dimensions of the human form bridging the microcosm of the apple seeds on earth and the orbit of the planet Venus above. 'Every man and woman is a star' (AC) -Text from 'Distillatio', the culminating volume of the Tela Quadrivium bookweb (publ.Fulgur Limited 2015). LIMITED GICLEE PRINT Edition of 49 copies only. High-quality large (57cm x 44cm / 22.5" x 17.25") signed and numbered giclee print on thick semi-gloss Paper. Use paypal button below to purchase for $33 US (or equivalent in your currency of choice) plus postage: Other Prints (at prices ranging from $20-$66) available below available bronze sculptures and recent drawings Bronze Bast-Sphinx Multimammia 20cm tall. Edition of 3 only. $850. SOLD OUT. Originally released as a bronze-painted plaster edition of 5 (sold out), a very small number of bronzes of this sculpture were recently made. Bronze Sekhmet -Ancient Egyptian lioness-headed solar Goddess of power and healing. 56cm tall (photo with the artist above included for scale). Edition of 6. Only 1 remains Feb 2020 (comes with signed numbered Certificate of Authenticity). $2300 (or equivalent in the currency of your choice). Please email Orryelle on [email protected] if interested. Gradual payment plans possible upon reservation with deposit. Alchymic Chess set -Bronze, with clay furnaces/rooks and glass vials/pawns blown by Cas Davey. White side figures only shown at right. 1 only remaining (Feb 2020) of an edition of 8. $1600 -if interested please email Orryelle on [email protected] There are also a limited number (4 of each) of the bronze pieces in the set available individually (prices range from $66-$140). Only a few of these are left. For images of individual pieces, symbolism, ordering, and a surreal stop-animated film of the set in action, please see the Alchemical Chess web-page Other Limited Prints which are still available: 'Brigid-Sarasvati' LIMITED GICLEE PRINT Edition of 49 copies only. High-quality large (57cm x 44cm / 22.5" x 17.25") signed and numbered giclee print on a thick semi-gloss paper which brings out the glimmer of the metallics. Use paypal button below to purchase for $33 US (or equivalent in your currency of choice) plus postage MahaKala - Maha Kali Yantra. Left and Right: The three layers of upwards-facing masculine and downward-facing feminine red triangles over MahaKala (the ultimate form of Shiva as Time and Eternity) and MahaKali-Kurukulle on the facing pages of 'Conjunctio' (the Red Book of the Tela Quadrivium, publ.Fulgur 2008) were united by the readers' turning of the pages... Thus the conjoined Hexagrams (in 3 layers) of the Two are below United to form a multi-layered Yantra of Tantric Union, in COAGULA, (the Gold Book of the Tela Quadrivium, publ.Fulgur 2011) Yin within the yang and the yang within the yin fractalise in the yab-yum (asana/kamakali) Hexagram. The 12-petalled Anahata chakra unfolds around them: Large signed giclee print of above image, the dimensions of the original pencil drawing: 38.7cm x 60.2cm $25 (plus postage) or equivalent in your currency of choice. Limited to 56 signed and numbered copies only (20 copies remaining Jan 2018): Hekate Trimorphe -The 3-faced form of the ancient Thracian Goddess of Witchcraft and the Cross-roads, Keeper of the Keys and bearer of the Twin Torches: Signed and numbered quality print of image above on thick white paper. 56 copies only SOLD OUT (Jan 2018) Above: Hekate as She appears as a double-page Opening in SOLVE, The Black Book (Fulgur 2012, Sold Out) in the Tela Quadrivium Bookweb. Above: Small detail from large oil painting 'The Wild Hunt' 2013 (sold to Nicolas Cage) BRONZE HEKATE CHTHONIA TRIMORPHE Chthonia means not just of the Underworld, but emerging from it, between the realms, erupting to the surface... The wax heads and torsos are reconstructed for each figure from the pieces which come out of silicon molds made from the original, but the skirts of each individual wax figure (to be lost in the bronze-casting process) are being individually crafted from wax, gnarled tree-roots, lace and lichen, so that each figure calcifies something of the earth forms and nature spirits from where it was created. Right: Original carved and sculpted wax for the first Hekate, crafted in Castlemaine Australia and exhibited at the Hekate Symposium 2013 in Glastonbury UK. Thus each figure is uniquely imbued with the Genius Loci or spirit of place where they were created. Those pictured below were made in Sintra, Portugal, with the skirts incorporating roots collected on the full moon from the Mountain of the Moon... Edition of nine copies only (each unique). $1300 SOLD OUT Below: A number of images from CONJUNCTIO (the Red Book of the Tela Quadrivium, Fulgur 2008, sold out) are available as high-resolution prints in signed and numbered editions of 77 copies each, at the A3 size of the originals (twice the printed size in the book). Please click on the thumbnails below to see larger images, read further information and/or to order these prints. Nuit. The Ancient Egyptian Goddess of the night sky, as seen from below. The Book CONJUNCTIO presents mirrored pairs of Sacred Twins and Divine Lovers from various cultural pantheons coupled on facing pages. They are aligned in such a way that when the pages are turned the figures are United in holy conjunction by the alchemical reader. Therefore these prints are also available in coupled pairs for a cheaper price. Left: 'Diana MultiMammia Lilith' Right: 'Pan' Left: 'Hela-Ceriddwen' Right: 'Cernunnos-Tyr' Left: 'Mut Nekhbet Kia' Right: 'Amoun Khnum Zos' Left: 'AllOne' Right: 'Sabbat Dance' BRONZE BAPHOMET In September 2010 Orryelle created this Baphomet, hir first work in Bronze, for exhibition at the Esoteric Book Conference 2010 in Seattle, USA. There were only 15 copies made, each with a unique patina. $840 SOLD OUT For the full story of the magickal gestation and creation of this piece (including more images) please Click Here There is also an online gallery of Orryelle's alchemical artworks on Adam McLean's comprehensive Alchemy website HERE (Those wishing to link to this gallery are welcome to use the banner at the top of the page.) MUTATION PARLOUR HOMEPAGE