Occult art
A team of one
One person can be a team, when there are multiple deities working in co-existence with that person. Magnetic Fields is such a team. It is the brainchild of me, the person Arjan Winkelaar and the deities I work closely with. As an artist through and through, surrealist in heart and filled with love for the spiritual world. On a daily basis working with the spirits of the wind, planets and bygone eras.
Together we are a force to be reckoned with. In this solitary existence I am dedicated to myself and the deities I work with to create spiritual art from an intuitive mind. Genuine occult art, the likes of which a few have seen before.
In surrealism and magick everything is possible, even if you don’t believe. And trust me, we don’t expect you to. There is no need for you to believe, although it is nice if you do. Still, there is nobody expecting you to believe in anything, in anyone or in the spirit world. Just know we believe in you!
Just call me Arjan
An Intuitive draftsman & Surrealist – On Chaos magick & Spiritual art
Autonomous draftsman
I started as a self-taught artist and from this practice came the main focus on drawing. On the paper, the lines, pencil and ink. This medium conveys magick better than paint. Drawing is a state of being. My state of being.
Surrealistic thinker
From a young age I am fascinated by surrealism. To convey your dreams and subconscious in art. And later I learned the original Surrealist movement was laced with spiritualism and the ideas of magick. Its esoteric secrets are still a place of wonder. A place I like to be.
Animistic magician
Magick is more than casting spells and performing rituals. It is a way of seeing the world and realizing that beyond the veil a whole other world resides. In my practice I like to bring the world behind the veil into ours. Let you see what is out there.
Spiritual artist
Delving into the world behind the veil and speaking with the souls of other beings is what I do, as they say it's what we need. For me it is a journey in art and esotericism. On this journey I convey the words and things I see into my art, into things for you to see, hold and touch.
Just call me Arjan
An Intuitive draftsman & Surrealist – On Chaos magick & Spiritual art
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man living in Alkmaar, one of the more beautiful cities of Noord-Holland, with my talented wife (trained in shamanism and traditional witchcraft), a child, our three cats and the numerous spiritual beings blowing in the wind. All meandering between the metaphysical trees. You could say my mind is like a forest, a place where trees are plentiful and keep unwanted attention at bay. Sometimes the wind brings in guests, but always invited and at times even welcome in the deeper regions.
Besides residing in my forest of thoughts and spirits, together with my wife we run a household filled with love, intellectual meetings, spiritual magick and meaningful peace. The both of us love art, being spiritual and creating things. All to serve a higher purpose of being more than the sum of our parts.
There is a word in Dutch “wederkerigheid.” Reciprocity in English, that I have always found one of beauty in my native language. For me it points to something that I keep returning to in my work: the idea that what flows out must also flow back. That nothing exists in isolation. That the visible world is in constant conversation with the deeper, hidden regions beneath it.
My artistic practice lives at the meeting point between art, magic and the subconscious. Working primarily on paper, drawings in ink and pencil, I create art that explores the hidden structures beneath our visible reality. The archetypes, Gods, deities, forces and spiritual presences that shape human experience without ever fully showing themselves to our conscious mind.
My work evolves completely intuitively. Forms and symbols emerge before they are fully understood. And I follow what reveals itself through the process, rather than imposing meaning from my conscious mind or even the outside world. Seen from this sense, my work is as much about discovery as it is about creation. The subconscious is not simply a theme, it is one of my primary forces or methods.
The occult and mystical are not decorative references in my practice. They are active frameworks through which I approach images, symbols and transformation. I am drawn to the power of symbols. By their ability to act on the psyche and alter the conscious mind through subconscious thought. To create art as a threshold between inner and outer worlds and to the possibility that an image can function as more than representation of reality. That it can be used as invocation, portal or talismanic presence.
Nature runs through all of it. Long before the gods became abstract and metaphysical beings, humans painted the walls of caves at Lascaux and understood themselves enough to be part of something alive and reciprocal. Nature was not backdrop; It was the sacred, the divine, the essence that looked back. This is the relationship that I want to find (again) in my work: not nature as subject, but nature as presence. Living, psychologically charged and full of what we have forgotten. The essence behind the veil.
It is not my aim to make artworks with one meaning, one closed interpretation. For me the work must open itself through encounter. Its meaning takes shape in the space between the artwork and the viewer. In the space where memory, projection and the subconscious become entangled. Each piece is an inner space where the mysterious can briefly take form. And where, if you are willing, something in you finds its shape alongside it.
In brief this is what I aim for, what my wish from me to you is. No doubt you still have question and for that reason I have answers. Don’t hold back and:
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Meet the spirit team
As said before one person can be a team, but only when there are multiple deities helping in the background. Doing so in spirit and the mind. As beings represented als altar pieces, little statues or handmade objects. These are the main deities I call upon when the need is nigh. Or just when there is a metaphysical field to be crossed and the forest is thick with trees.
Jupiter
From the moment of creation Jupiter has always be present as my main altar deity. He is one of the main Gods in Greek philosophy and for me the go-to presence in the forest of the mind. In moments of deep shrubbery and clear green pastures he is there.
Hermes/Psychopomp
At the moment transformation is part of my game. The transformation from an artist to being someone like myself. Hermes is a psychopomp between realms, a guide and mirror of reality gazing deity. His main reason of existence is for new path to be seen, walked and brought to fruitful fulfillment.
Introspection
One of my first altar pieces. Pure spiritual energy to help me with the introspection of the forest, as a guide between the trees and logs. The philosopher helping me see the scrubs, leaves and lushes patches of green.