Barry William Hale


Art is the personal grammar of the Magical.

Influences include a wide birth of various orthodox and heterodox streams of mysticism and magick, contemporary and arcane streams of gnosis; from Occident to Orient, Boreal to Austral.

This Artist-magician has a long-standing thorough working relationship with the Enochian magical system, with the Alphabet at its core: has provided not only vast and heuristic treasure-house of inspiration but a strong structural influence.

Deciphering and developing magical formulae in terms of the incarnate relationships to the genius-loci of the Southern Hemisphere in general and the antipodes in particular.

'ASH'-series

By 1995 the Artist had amassed a small collection of drawings in a particular style. A group of these were grouped together into an exhibition and booklet.

i). Harporcrates in the Dragons Den

'Iris print signed Artist proof, & signed numbered series. A particular depiction of Harporcrates on a dragon, utilizing Fr Achad's (Charles Stansfield Jones') multi-dimensional Tree of Life.

ii). Phoenix

Iris print, signed Artist proof & signed numbered series.
Inspired by:
- The 'Mass of the Phoenix' -Liber XLIVLiber, ABA Book 4, Aleister Crowley.
-The Holy Books of Thelema.- Liber VII, Ch I., v 19-20
'A phoenix hath it for its head; below are two prongs. They spear the wicked.'
'I will spear thee, O thou little grey god, unless Thou beware!'

iii). Babalon

'Iris print'-signed Artist proof, & numbered series.
A particular manifestation of Babalon in an Arachnine guise.

iv). Harporcrates in the Dragons Den

'Iris print'-signed Artist proof & numbered series (colour version).

Enochian Series

In 1997 a multimedia exhibition of a group of four artists involved in a Magical Operation devised by the artist, to explore the Enochian Watchtowers. This operation was carried out consistently over several years. From this working a myriad of different works were inspired.

i). Great Seal of the Four times Three.

'Iris print'- signed Artist proof, & numbered series

ii). Great Seal of the East, Number -1 of 4.

Photo Print -signed and framed
An Enochian sigilization of the Watchtower of the East.

The Enochian Alphabet series

A Prototypical template of the Enochian alphabet, derived from the Hieroglyphic Monad.

i). Ur -(number-11 of 21).

'Iris print'-signed Artist proof, & numbered series
The eleventh letter of the Enochian Alphabet depicted in within embellished appropriately.

Hand Series

The maturation of the Hand Series occurred in Mexico City and on the Yucatan Peninsula in 1998.
Its had it's locus many years prior. Underscores experimentation with the expression of astral-menstrums, and phenomena such as ectoplasm.

i). Hand Portrait

Example of a Magical Hand Portrait with spells and formulae.
'Iris print'-signed Artist proof, & numbered series.

Three Hands

'Iris print'-signed Artist proof, & numbered series
Development of magical gesticulations, the Three Hands focalize energies so as to create alignments to access inter-dimensional planes.

iii). The Marvelous Manifestations of the Hand.

'Iris print'-signed Artist proof, & numbered series
The Marvelous Manifestations of the Hand highlights phenomenal concerns. The Hand's power to manifest: depicting an ectoplasmic flow of entities and energies seeking form.

iv) Hand Diamonae.

Iris print- signed Artist proof & numbered series.
Displays another of the infinite entities being fleshed by the Art

Sigilla Pomba-Gira Infernal series.

1998 the result of a 49 day magical opperation performed by seven plus one. With the major aim at localizing and enriching a Babalonian current. In this working the Seven Pomba-Gira (a feminine expression of Exu, infernal god of the crossroads, found in certain Afro-Brazilian cults.) were ultilized in dual capacity of Avatar and Gate-keepers.
After establishing a relationship with the Pomba-Gira Sigilla were constructed to calling apon their powers and potiencies for divers purposes. This series in particular is a pure example of the Artists sigillic sorcery.

i). Pomba-Gira. number one

Iris print- signed Artist proof & Numbered series.

ii). Ciganna. number two

Iris print- signed Artist proof & Numbered series

Heaven and Hell series number iii.

Wheels of Heaven and Hell' is a series of pictorial responses inspired from the liber CCXXXI (XXII Domarum et XXII Carcerorum)- 'Holy Books of Thelema', to be used in magical workings with the sigillia thereof. Upon the construction of the first in this series, the magical response was immediate. The artist coming into rapport with some of the geni in a rather tremendous manner.  The Arts-Magician creates different version alone these lines periodically, this being one in an ongoing series.
This particular version of 'the Wheels of Heaven and Hell' was designed in two plates to be viewed on above the other , or singularly.  

i) Wheels of Heaven and Hell -'Domes of Heaven'.

Iris print - signed. Artist proof & number series.

ii) Wheels of Heaven and Hell -'Ceils of Hell'

Iris print -signed. Artist proof & numbered series