MCPA bids farewell to "founding member emeritus" Roger Williamson, whom we wish to thank for all that he has contributed to the launching and promotion of the MCPA's first exhibition and to its website and Facebook page.
Roger's experience and charisma were great assets to our promotional activities. He may be present again as a featured guest artist in future MCPA shows.
Below is Roger's artistic statement:
Nobody deserves the ‘outsider’ tag more than Roger Williamson. Completely self-taught, mysteriously moved in his 40′s to take up the brush, gloriously isolated from mainstream curatorial prerogatives–the founder of Magus Books and Herbs paints for no one but himself.
Even if every other mammal stepped off the planet, he’d almost surely go on doing his Muses’ dirty work. Yet the artist hasn’t a single naive bone in his body. And while (the odd portrait excepted) he strictly depicts images from his own rich inner life, Williamson, like the universe itself, loathes stasis.
Wanderlust and constant self-transformation figure in every aspect of the UK transplant’s life, from his ongoing exploration of ceremonial magic, shamanism, and a few dozen related disciplines to his nine published books–but they’re the driving forces behind the oils and pastels.
Equally adept at tweaking received themes and representing newly broached regions of his deepest psyche, Williamson defies cookie-cutter assumptions about visionary artists simply by following his heart. Neither prophet nor poet the painter most often finds (and/or loses) himself playing journalist/spy in some of quantum reality’s diciest opportunity zones, intent on bringing us everything Prometheus didn’t.
He is the author of The Sun at Night, Labyrinth: Tales of a Rite of Passage, Lucifer’s: A Basic Handbook of Luciferian Sorcery, The Black Book of the Jackal, On The Arrival of the Machine, Calling up the Spirits, Howling at the Sky, Lucifer Diaries and The Tarot of the Morning Star 22 card deck and book – Rod Smith
Rogerwilliamsonart.com
Sun at Night
The ancient Egyptian God Kephera who is symbolic of “coming into being”.
Oil on canvas, 36 inches by 50 inches, 2007
Featured on the Comets Ov Cupid Album Western Lands
He Called on His Idylle and then She Took Him
Oil on canvas, 24 x 48 x 1 inches, 2009.
Glain Nadredd
Glain Nadredd, Les nadredds serpents. Serpent Stone of Celtic mythology, oil on canvas, 36 inches by 48 inches, Les nadredds serpents
This picture is dedicated to Arthur Machen and his novel The White People.
Erato and Medea
Argonautica Three: Erato and Medea
Oil on wood, 48 inches by 48 inches, 2014
Book Four of the Argonautic begins with an evocation to Erato
Come now, Erato, stand by my side, and say next how Jason brought back the fleece to Iolcus aided by the love of Medea. For thou sharest the power of Cypris, and by thy lovecares dost charm unwedded maidens; wherefore to thee too is attached a name that tells of love
Dance For Kali
Dance for Kali, oil on canvas fine art painting 48 inches by 48 inches, 2012.
A woman assumes the god form of Kali. She does this to manifest the Goddesses’ personality within herself so that she may be empowered by her.
To channel and amplify this she dances before the yantra of Kali, the goddesses’ signature which is used like a talisman in the Western Magical Tradition. The skulls represent epochs of time both past and to come.