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George Wendell Baker

Metagnosis

The Metagnosis gallery works exploring themes of illusion, awakening and institutional critique. 

“Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. — Hermann Hesse

 

A young woman cloaked in black kneels beside a headstone, holding a child. Set against raw linen, the image conveys grief, memory, and the invisible cost of war. Oil painting by George Wendell Baker
For Glory or War I – Sancta Bellum
“War does not determine who is right—only who is left.” — Bertrand Russell. The raw linen hangs as testament—scarred, unprimed, refusing to forget. She kneels— not saint, but witness. Oil on Raw Linen (unstretched) 78 × 100 cm
Gleaners: For Glory – oil painting by George Wendell Baker depicting fallen figures on a battlefield with a rider and circling ravens; an anti-war allegory. “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” – Goya.
Gleaners: For Glory
“All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” - Voltaire. “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” – Goya. Oil on Canvas 72 x 90 cm
A cloaked woman in black gazes outward, draped in mourning on a raw linen with gold-hued marked with a halo. A symbolic meditation on memory, sacrifice, and the cost of war. Oil painting by George Wendell Baker
For Glory or War II – Sancta Bellum
“The living will envy the dead.” — Dostoevsky. She looks back through time, haloed not by heaven but by memory. Here is a requiem for those silenced beneath the rhetoric of glory. Oil on Raw Linen (unstretched) 78 × 100 cm
Diptych oil painting by George Wendell Baker , portraying the Meliai—primordial ash-tree nymphs—and evoking Epinoia, the divine remembrance. Rich in symbolic foliage and grounded myth, the work offers a Gnostic lens on nature’s sentience and soul.
Meliai
"Cast not pearls ... " Matthew 7:6 - Meliai—born of earth and myth. She~ in anticipation of Epinoia—the whisper of divine remembrance. - Dyptic / Oil on Canvas -115 x 170 cm
Scrying is an ancient practice of gazing into a reflective or moving surface to receive visions, hidden knowledge, or messages about the future.
The Scrying Well
"Scrying is akin to muscle, albeit one made of mystical energy instead of tissue..." - Violet Lumani - Oil on Canvas 72 x 90 cm
A prophet figure sits collapsed amid a devastated landscape, while a second figure gestures upward. This allegorical oil painting by George Wendell Baker explores the burden of foresight, the agony of truth, and the collapse of illusions in a fallen world.
Sibyl
“The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong; the next most distressing thing is to be proved right.” - Aldous Huxley - Oil on Canvas 120 x 120 cm
A child in red stands before four stampeding horses emerging from shadow, evoking the apocalypse while at the forefront as four spectral warhorses charge from darkness. The scene evokes judgment, loss, and the mystical innocence caught in the path of destruction. Oil painting by George Wendell Baker
Clades Belli
"When the wise are silent, the madmen rule." Euripides - "For thy merchants were the great men of the earth; by thy sorceries were all nations deceived." Revelation 18:23 - Oil on Canvas 80 x 116 cm
Gnosticism Nag Hammadi Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam
"He breathed his spirit into Adam. The spirit is the power of his mother, but he did not realize this, because he lives in ignorance." - The Apocryphon of John . Charcoal on Paper 78 x 108 cm
American Empire, the Epstein, elite class
The Ritual Appetite
"The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. " - George Carlin - Oil on Canvas 72 x 90 cm
Available works – HERE

I would like viewers to note that, while some of this work engages with symbols and languages of the occult to explore how they operate within human consciousness, this is not done so to endorse or serve occultism and the dark arts. The hidden, the alluring, and the forbidden are presented as mirrors and illustrations of our vulnerability to deception. These images are evocations, not invitations. I paint metaphors of temptation and illusion as catalysts for anamnesis: messages to awaken and remember the sovereignty of the spirit. Like the Gnostics and Hermeticists, I view the world as a veil of mixed signals: truth interwoven with distortion. My art seeks to disentangle the threads, revealing how the light of Divine Grace can be refracted through the glamour of illusion.

* (Model Credits: Lovelifedrawing / SketchDaily / Croquis Cafe / GRAFIT / Mjranum /Mervilina)

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