Preorder: The Alchymical Garden of Michael Foy

The Alchymical Garden of Michael Foy

by Sean Jefferson 

The Alchymical Garden of Michael Foy is a visionary cycle of paintings and texts by British Symbolist artist Sean Jefferson: a work of pastoral sorcery, alchemical imagination, and charged image-making in which the ancient Royal Art of Alchemy is transmuted into the language of contemporary painting.

Inspired by the twenty-two emblematic images of Splendor Solis, Jefferson’s Garden unfolds as a living theatre of fairies, poisonous plants, spirit presences, chthonic animals, Qabalistic pathways, Celtic survivals, and dream-born apparitions. At its centre stands Michael Foy: ancestral guide, contrarian familiar, and hidden intelligence of the work, whose presence is invoked as both catalyst and companion in the artist’s Great Work.

Here, painting becomes neither mere illustration nor aesthetic ornament, but an operative vessel. Pigment, symbol, automatism, folklore, and visionary perception are brought together in a process of solve et coagula, through which the invisible is given body and the body is returned to mystery.

The result is a distinctly British alchemical landscape: lush, dangerous, humorous, haunted, and spiritually alive.

Across its three cycles of imagery, The Alchymical Garden of Michael Foy draws upon over fifty years of Jefferson’s research into Symbolist art, Spiritualism, fairy faith, Golden Dawn colour symbolism, Jungian transformation, Surrealist automatism, and the occult current that has always moved beneath the surface of visionary art. It is a book for those who understand that images may be
portals, landscapes may be grimoires, and strange beauty—when properly ensouled—may become a mode of initiation.

The Alchymical Garden of Michael Foy is published in two highly limited editions – and will not be reprinted!

Forewords by David Rankine and William Rose.

Bibliographic Details  

• 160 pages, measuring 210 x 280 mm.
• Printed on premium 135 gsm wood-free silk glossy paper for excellent art reproduction.
• Features Peyer Surbalin endpapers, headbands and a ribbon marker.
• Includes 29 full-page color paintings and many more black/white and color line drawings and seals.

Fine Hardcover Edition (Pre-order) – 82,- EUR
+ shipping (incl. VAT if applicable)

• Bound in high quality, green/black Peyer Duchesse fine linen cloth, manufactured in Germany.
• Features an embossed cover, lettering on rounded spine.
• Limited to 300 copies only, never to be reprinted.
• Ships mid July, 2026.

Auric Edition (Pre-order) – 398,- EUR
+ shipping (incl. VAT if applicable)

• Fully hand-bound in pre-embossed fine yellow leather, crafted in Germany from premium bull hides.
• Presented in a custom clamshell box with dark purple leather covers and gold foil embossing.
• Each copy comes with an additional folded card featuring two motifs individually hand-drawn by the artist.
  Each is unique!
• Limited to 29 hand-numbered copies only, never to be reprinted.
• Ships a few weeks after the Fine Hardcover Edition.

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