Click to see these pages What is McLean working on at present Adam's Art Weblog Tour of McLean's workshop. View some of McLean's oil paintings   Works from 2000   Works from 2001   Works from 2002   Works from 2004   Works from 2005   Works from 2006   Works from 2007   Bonacina series McLean's Exhibition in Aug 2007 Exhibition catalogue How does McLean create his paintings? Commissioning a painting Paintings for sale Coloured emblems Facsimile of the Ripley scroll Adam's Alchemy Weblog

Adam McLean Some recent paintings. All of McLean's 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. He prefers to think of himself as a "painter" rather than an "artist". This makes his paintings 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. Please click on the small images below. Some are linked to enlarged versions. Back to index page. Work in progress on the easel - The fountain in the garden of Venus The Paracelsus portrait Click to see work in progress Paintings finished in 2005. Van der Goes - The Temptation Paintings finished in 2004. In December 2004 McLean completed facsimile paintings of some 15th and 16th century Flemish paintings. Flemish - image of Pan with his pipes Flemish - image of the soul Bosch - the lovers in the flower sphere click to see larger versions. Paintings still in preparation. Flemish The Three Graces Flemish Alchemy of Love Flemish St Michael and the Dragon The garden of Venus Paintings projects for later in 2005. Portrait of Paracelsus These should become ready to sell later in 2005. These are all oil on board. Paintings finished in 2002. Paintings finished in 2001. Click on image to see an enlarged version Paintings in preparation for 2002. Paintings completed in 2000. Click on image to see an enlarged version 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.