Alchemical books and manuscripts were often illustrated with challenging and complex emblems. These are mostly in the form of woodcuts or engravings and are often very difficult for the modern eye to fully appreciate. Adam McLean has studied this material for forty years and has made these images accessible again by subtly colouring them in the style of original manuscript watercoloured figures. This enables us to see these alchemical images as artworks relevant to our modern age.
Here are a number of images now being supplied in the form of A2 (24 by 16.5 inch) fine art giclée signed prints which are printed by the artist himself.
The prints each cost £40 or $65 (plus postage).
Prints ALCH 1 - 6 Prints ALCH 7 - 12 Prints ALCH 13 - 18
 ALCH 01. Robert Fludd's famous engraving of Nature mediating between the divine and Man, the ape of Nature. 
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 ALCH 02. Robert Vaughan's invisible mountain of the wise, with its hidden alchemical treasure.
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 ALCH 03. The alchemist balances the spiritual with the material, the solar with the lunar, in this well known complex 17th century engraving.
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 ALCH 04. The alchemist in his study and laboratory from Thomas Norton's Ordinall of alchemy - 17th century English engraving.
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 ALCH 05. The alchemical tree, standing under the influences of the heavens. 17th century engraving.
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 ALCH 06. Engraving of the famous hieroglyphic figures of Nicholas Flamel, supposedly carved on the arch of a church in Paris - 17th century.
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