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NATVRA Poster Print

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᛬ Locvs Inter Interiore et Exteriore Sapientia Iacet:

“Between Within and Without lies the Sanctuary of Wisdom”

* Original illustration by Benjamin A. Vierling

* Image featured in The Green Mysteries by Daniel A. Schulke, published by Three Hands Press

* 4 color screen print with split fountain by the technical wizards at Monolith Press.

* Second Printing. 2024. ‘Spring Dawn’ Edition of 100.

* 18 x 24 inches on French toned paper

* Signed and numbered

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The print is available online via Samaritan Press, for worldwide shipping.

A few copies are also available in store at Kitkitdizzi in Nevada City, California.

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“Having rejected all else, these people had come here decades before and fashioned their homes from only that which the land provided, eschewing all forms of ‘civilization.’ Here were men and women colored as the very mantle of the earth - as soil and leaves, as wood and stone. Their visages and movements were contiguous with the land, to such a degree that even in relative close proximity, only the keenly discerning would know that that they were looking at people, and not a meadow or a ravine.”

D. A. Schulke . The Green Mysteries

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Green Mysteries Art Sale

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Harvesting the Mandrake . Pen, ink, watercolor & gouache on toned paper. 12” x 15”. 2016

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A select number of original illustrations from The Green Mysteries are being offered through Three Hands Press. The roster includes the ‘Harvesting the Mandrake’ image, and a number of pen & ink illustrations including botanical renderings of Ferula assa-foetida, Phoenix dactylifera, Dryopteris filix-mas , and Lawsonia inermis.

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For a complete list of available originals, please visit the Three Hands Press website.

The Green Mysteries

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The Green Mysteries • Arcana Viridia
᛫ An Occult Herbarium ᛫
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Now shipping from Three Hands Press.

The Green Mysteries : Arcana Viridiea - An Occult Herbarium. 2023

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Authored by Daniel A. Schulke, The Green Mysteries is a comprehensive esoteric Herbal which provides an examination of a myriad of plants through folklore, chemistry, pharmacology, and ethnobotany. Available in Hardbound cloth and Softcover, printed entirely via offset lithography on custom paper stock, the book is 476 pages, and features over 300 original Vierling illustrations, including 12 full color plates. Typography and lay-out executed by Joseph Uccello. Special calligraphic text was created for the work by Gail Coppock.
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The hand-rendered artwork builds on the tradition of the great Herbals, which germinated in the Classical period and evolved through the late Middle Ages before blossoming in the Renaissance, as exemplified in different epochs by the works of Dioscorides, Leonard Fuchs, Rembert Dodoes, and John Gerard. Particular technical & aesthetic inspiration was provided by the german engravers of the 15th and 16th centuries, such as Barthel Beham, & Martin Schongauer. All images appearing in the book were created exclusively for the Green Mysteries, and whenever possible the individual plants were sketched and conceptualized from living specimens.
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The softcover edition of the Book is available broadly via online, & brick and mortar retailers.

Pentiment Soundtrack Album Cover

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A newly unvieled egg tempera & oil painting, ‘Portrait of Andreas Maler’, appears on the album cover soundtrack for the critically acclaimed video game, Pentiment.

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Porträt von Andreas Maler. Egg Tempera & Oil on Panel. 28” x 36”. 2022

Pentiment is a 16th-century narrative adventure game produced by Studio Design Director, Josh Sawyer, and released by Obsidian Entertainment. Illuminated manuscripts, woodcut prints, and a rich historic panorama provide the aesthetic foundation for this immersive gaming experience.

To harmonize with the game’s unique style, the Pentiment team endeavored to produce a soundtrack reflecting the musical styles of 16th century Europe. The team worked with the early music ensemble, Alkemie, who use shawms, hurdy-gurdies, and myriad other period instruments to produce an authentically evocative sound. Alkemie composed original music for the game score, adapting historical pieces from the 14th to 16th centuries for pivotal moments throughout the narrative.

The soundtrack also features a track from Kristin Hayter, of Lingua Ignota, who composed and performed the song Ein Traum for the game’s epilogue. Kristin drew upon 19th century German Lieder traditions for the piano accompaniment and adapted a Heinrich Heine poem, Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland, for the lyrics.

Excecuted at near life-size, the album cover painting depicts the game’s protagonist, Andreas Maler, seated in a symbolically rich environment featuring thematic elements from the game. The portrait was painted in part from life, referencing a live model and physical props in the studio, using the renaissance-inspired egg tempera and oil, ‘Mische Technique’. Amongst the myriad of correlations to the game which appear in the painting are exactingly rendered facsimilies of the the mysterious notes, a landscape showing the monastery in the bavarian Alps, and an actual pentimento of the Mithraic tauroctonym, which exists under the architectural motif showing the winged bull of St. Luke.

The digital soundatrack is currently available on multiple streaming platforms including Spotify and iTunes. A digital copy of the album can be purchased on Pentiment’s Steam page. A double vinyl LP will be released later in 2023, featuring the Andreas Maler Poträt on the cover, a gatefold sleeve with liner notes, and a painting of Our Lady of the Labyrinth by Pentiment’s art director, Hannah Kennedy, on the back.

Special thanks to Josh Sawyer for producing this epic project.

Dream Unending

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Album cover painting for ‘Song of Salvation’, the sophmore release from dreamdoom virtuosos, Dream Unending. LP released on 20 Buck Spin Records. USA.

Song of Salvation. Polymer paints on panel. 16” x 16”. 2022

Dream Unending is the critically acclaimed atmospheric dream-doom, genre-expanding project of Derrick Vella (Tomb Mold) and Justin DeTore (Innumerable Forms, Sumerlands).

The album features the guest talents of vocalist Phil Swanson and Leila Abdul-Rauf of Vastum on trumpet. Recorded by Arthur Rizk and Sean Pearson at Boxcar Studios. Mixed and Mastered by Arthur Rizk. Layout by Chimère Noire.

Vinyl LP in various editions available from 20 Buck Spin.

Et in Aracadia Ego 5 color poster

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  • Original Artwork featured on the cover of Fiddler’s Green 7, Gods of the Afternoon. 2020

  • 5 color screen poster printed by Broken Press, Seattle.

  • 16 x 20 inches on 100# Classic Crest Pewter paper.

  • Limited edition of 100, signed and numbered .

  • Poster is available to purchase from Samaritan Press

Even in Arcadia, there am I. So reads the memorial inscription on a crumbling tomb, inadvertently discovered by shepherds in a beguiling grove, amidst the idyllic rural landscape. An enigmatic pall descends, darkening the luster of the enchanted wood. Who erected this archaic monument, and whose corporal shell is interred within? The poets of ancient Rome pondered this query in brooding prose, rendered eloquent by Virgil in his Eclogues, wherein the pastoral utopia of the Great God Pan is tempered by cognizance of the ephemeral nature of all things.

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Magazine Cover illustration for Fiddler’s Green.

Et in Arcadia Ego illustration on the cover of Fiddler’s Green 7

Et in Arcadia Ego illustration on the cover of Fiddler’s Green 7

The seventh issue of Fiddler’s Green, also known as “Gods of the Afternoon,” published in February 2020. Edited by Clint Marsh, the magazine features copper titling, and 52 pages of art and magic, including reviews, a letters column, and a flexi-disc by Anton Barbeau.

The magazine may be purchased from Peculiar Parish.

By Moonlight & Spirit Flight

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Original Vierling ink illustration adorns the cover of the second edition of Michael Howard’s ‘By Moonlight & Spirit Flight’, published by Three Hands Press.

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By Moonlight and Spirit-Flight, originally published as a monograph in 2013, examines such elements as the ancestral horde, the flight of the Furious Host, and the entheogenic Witches' ‘Flying Ointment', each of which played a unique role in the 'flight' of the medieval witches.

This new edition of By Moonlight and Spirit Flight is 70 pages, featuring interior design by Joseph Uccello and original cover by Benjamin A. Vierling. It is available in three editions: Softcover, Limited Hardcover, and Deluxe Harcover.

All editions are available via Three Hands Press.