Los’s Light and the Swedenborg Window

Los’s Light and the Swedenborg Window

Los’s Light and the Swedenborg Window A Creative Connections post by artist Andrea McLean. The Frontispiece of William Blake’s illuminated book Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion shows a luminous symbol. The concentric disk of light can be seen simply as a...
William Blake’s Phantom Face

William Blake’s Phantom Face

William Blake’s Phantom Face To accompany her talk at the Wellcome Collection, Chair of the Blake Society, Sibylle Erle, dims the lights and examines Blake’s macabre and mysterious Ghost of a Flea. William Blake was never the eccentric loner that his early biographers...
Blake’s Nativity

Blake’s Nativity

Blake’s Nativity Stephen Pritchard reflects on Blake’s treatment of the Christmas story and offers a poetic response of his own. The deep of winter came; What time the secret child, Descended thro’ the orient gates of the eternal day: War ceas’d,...
Blake’s font

Blake’s font

Blake’s font William Blake was baptised on Sunday 11 December 1757, 265 years ago. John Riordan wrote the following poem and read it at the online launch of VALA issue 3.   The Grinling Gibbons font you were Baptised in is formed into a marble tree. I like...
Happy Birthday William Blake! and VALA 3

Happy Birthday William Blake! and VALA 3

Happy Birthday William Blake! and VALA 3 Today we launch the third issue of our journal, VALA. You can download it as a free pdf here. We, Sibylle Erle, John Riordan and Jason Whittaker, started on our journey about a year ago. Last November we decided to tackle yet...