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Nearly 200 pages, a hybrid of sorts, combining my artwork over the last 2 decades with chronicles of adventures along the path as well.
It has been a long time coming. I started discussing this book with Dale & Laura Pendell around 2010-2011 and started assembly 7 years ago. I gave up on it a few times, changed direction and when I finished up on the design… I revised, again and again.
Illustrations done for the Invisible College (a review I have been publishing for 15 years or more. It was started on the recommendation of the late great artist Robert Venosa & his wonderful partner Martina Hoffmann). There are sections as well for my visionary work, and for Radio EarthRites, another project spanning 19 years.
The writing covers various adventures from the mid 60’s to the present. Some of the entries are entheogenically fueled, others not so much.
This book is the first in a series of three that I have been contemplating producing. The second one is now in the works.
I will let everyone know when this edition is finally published, and available!
Thanks for the kind support!
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Gwyllm
Reviews:
It has always been my contention that there are two things that define the human: art and magic. In Gwyllm Llwydd’s retrospective publication of works, Alcove of Dreams, we are deeply immersed in both. Andalusian-Art Nouveau-Symbolist dreamscapes combine classical and unconventional elements to capture introspective visions. My advice to the reader? Savor each vision slowly and at length. Pay attention to the details and let yourself drift into the dream. Alcove of Dreams, Llwydd’s fascinating memoir of art and psychedelics, deserves a favored place on your bookshelf.

 

                               —M. Isidora Forrest
    Author of Isis Magic and Offering to Isis

 

Gwyllm Llwyd’s ‘Alcove of Dream’s is a stunning display of the artist’s, stunning digital collage, peppered with esoteric symbolism, that have served as covers for editions of ‘The Invisible College Review’ and other psychedelic related publications. Llwyd’s work brings new vision to the poster and record album art of the 60s-70s, with its surreal blend of antiquated steel engravings, psychedelic colours against a background of titillating tessellation. Llwyd’s work is graphic proof that Art is a Drug.

—Chris Bennett
co-author of Green Gold the Tree of Life: Marijuana in Magic and Religion (1995); Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible (2001); and author of Cannabis and the Soma Solution (2010); Liber 420: Cannabis, Magickal herbs and the Occult (2018); and Cannabis: Lost Sacrament of the Ancient World (2023)

 

“Reading Gwyllm’s Alcove of Dreams, I’m naturally struck by the parallels between my personal journey and the familiar influences present in the book. I’m certain that many inner explorers will find a sincere connection reflected in these pages. His life journey, both grounded and fantastic, is revealed as a tale of poetic discoveries, entheogenic adventures in the far reaches of the psyche and inspirational encounters both real and beyond.
I’m a fan of Gwyllm’s collage work, so it’s a pleasure to discover images I haven’t seen before. I love his love of the ornate, psychedelic beauty and surreal juxtapositions. His creations speak the dream language saturated with the sense of nostalgia for the great Mystery. At last, Alcove of Dreams attests to a life of love, profound curiosity and creative inspiration.”
A. Andrew Gonzalez Artist

 

Gwyllm does not withhold his cornucopia of visual delights. His collages are an abundant offering of intricacy, movement, and mystique. Sometimes, it is mysterious and thought provoking; at other times, it is accessible and fun. Either way, it is always delicious.

Liba Waring Stambollion,
Painter, author, queen bee of the artist-writer association “Dreams & Divinities”.

Gwyllm’s latest production under the Invisible College imprint bears the title The Alcove of Dreams and it is appropriate that the term ‘alcove’ derives from the Arabical-qubba meaning a vaulted chamber and such spaces in Moorish architecture feature frequently in artworks in this collection of Gwyllm’s work. In English an alcove suggests a cosy space for a meditation, perhaps with a collection of books or artefacts with a special meaning or a small meeting of friends. Such a meeting might be composed of a group of likeminded companions of the way, to exchange thoughts or just to sit in contemplative silence. Although there are some essays included the volume is largely a retrospective of Gwyllm’s art and it is that on which I will focus. Gwyllm’s work emerges from and bears the imprint of the psychedelic sixties and
seventies, an influence on his life which he covers in a biographical sketch that is included in this collection. The posters and underground magazines of that era borrowed from the styles of Art Nouveau, a style that was ‘new’ in the Edwardian era but has since garnered a nostalgic appeal related to the aestheticism, decadence and fascination with the orient of that era. Gwyllm also owes an unmistakable debt to the collages of Max Ernst, which combined elements from nineteenth engravings of natural history, romances and gothic thrillers to create collages of weird human-animal hybrids in gothic settings.

Gwyllm combines similar elements with a modern twist in a style that like that of Max Ernst is instantly recognisable. We are invited into a realm where mantis gods preside over maze-like temples, or UFOs hover over deserts or pyramids suggesting ancient contact with alien intelligences. There is a geometry of meaning to be found in a miscellanea of mandalas, esoteric references, exotic architecture, and alchemical imagery that explodes in colour, where octopoid tentacles suggest that the ancient ones may be waiting in the wings. Christian iconography mingles with Mayan pyramids but there is a curious familiarity in these fantastic images that invoke the acid realisation of ‘I’ve been here before’, combined with a nostalgia for an ancient wisdom perhaps only half glimpsed. Edwardian gaiety girls in a swirl of purple ipomeas are transformed into psychedelicised muses of a brotherhood, such whose ciphered signature PRB once concealed their identity. Gwyllm’s digital collages with their frequent images of winged flight form a visual langue des oiseaux,a symbolic green language understood by the companions of the way. These images bear repeated viewings, revealing further subtleties and nuances.

Alan Piper
Author of: Strange Drugs make for Strange Bedfellows: Ernst Jünger, Albert Hofmann and the Politics of Psychedelics (2015) & Bicycle Day and other Psychedelic Essays (2023)

 

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