Sacred Symbolic Art, Design & Architecture 

Twelve Mandalas

(Set of Paintings, Ink and Water Color on Board, 1975)

My Twelve Mandalas will be published as a Pomegranate calendar in 2011.

All images © A T Mann 2009 World Rights in All Media

The paintings are mandalas based on major religious, philosophical and cosmological systems, which were all created and organized using the square and the circle. They relate to the astrological signs by their qualities, numerology and symbolism. The paintings were first exhibited in London in 1976 at the First Festival of Mind and Body, in 1996 in Copenhagen at AstrologiHuset and the originals live in Majorca. They were published as cards in1975, appeared in many of my books (1979, 1986, 1993, 1995), in magazines, and were serialized in the Dutch journal BRES in the early 1980s. The original paintings are 48 x 66 cm. and are owned by a private collector on Majorca.

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I an now offer Giclée prints of some of my most beautiful mandalas. The Kala Calendar 1976-1977 is one of the best examples of my mandala calendar from the 70s; intricate, with complex geometry and including a calendar for eight different religions/cultures and the signature magical plants for the twelve zodiac signs along the borders. The giclee is 20" x 29" on thick and beautiful paper. Suitable for framing, order one signed by A T Mann for $500 excluding p&p. Other paintings will soon be available.

The Kala Calendar 1973-1974 was my first one-page calendar with lunar phases, moon signs, zodiacal months, elemental weather, and twelve Mandala Astrological Tarot cards. We printed 200 of them and hand-colored a few. This is the original one I painted as a Giclée print. It is 16.5" x 22" on thick watercolor paper, suitable for framing, signed by A T Mann for $500 excluding p&p.

The Baldwin Hill mandala of 1973 is still one of my favorites of all time. It is a stufy of the four elements, their relationship to the circle and square, with a checkerboard motif flirting with five-fold geometry of the central pentangle. I painted it on my idyllic 30th birthday in the Berkshires just before I moved to England for 18 years — and the original still resides in my study in Hudson. The Giclée is 11 3/4" x 11 3/4" and is printed on thick watercolor paper, suitable for framing, signed by A T Mann for $300, excluding p&p.

Spiral Solar System

This design of the Spiral Solar System was made for my book "The Round Art" in 1979. I am offering high resolution prints 13" x 19" suitable for framing on archival Epson paper. You can pay by PayPal.

My 1978 drawing of "Nested Kepler Solids"

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Painted Talismans

(Talisman Paintings, Ink and Water Color on Board)

I paint talismans to commission. The talismans focus energy, integrate disparate principles or influences, provide medititation mandalas for specific purposes or celebrate special occasions like weddings, birthdays, anniversaries or significant cosmic events. They are specially tailored to the individual(s) who will have and use them, attuned energetically and astrologically. All colors are coded magically and the images are derived from traditional medieval, Egyptian, Kabbalistic, Astrological, Alchemical, Rosicrucian and other mystical languages.

Beginning in 1972 I created astrological calendars for publication. The first KALA calendar (above, upper left) was done in 1972 in the US. When I moved to England in 1973 I became a Director of Phenomenon Publications and we made calendar books (above right and below) until 1981. After that time I did calendars on my own as single-page mandalas of great richness and complexity. In 1995 I made the Galaxen Astrologisk Kalendar (above left) in Copenhagen. The calendars are based on the astrological year of twelve signs and include many calendar systems (such as Islamic, Hebrew, Christian Saints Days, Chinese, Mayan, Aztec and others), often shown as concentric circles. This points up the true disconnection of our Western Civil Calendar from more natural planetary and natural cycles.

                         Kala Calendar 1980          Phenomenon Calendar 1978

Feng Shui "dragon" on the siteplan                                           Jackson House, Jylland, Denmark

The Jackson House is an architectural design commission I created while I lived in Copenhagen, Denmark. The clients owned a large property that had for twenty years been the "World University," a live-in school of adult education. The existing building was a typical L-shaped Danish farm building. What is most unique and spectacular about the site is that it is adjacent to an ancient historical site with eight 5000-year-old megalithic burial mounds. (These mounds and their geometry can be seen on this partial plan of the site, which I symbolized by the earth dragon.) The solution was a stone and wood house with a crystal glass greenhouse that refracted the energy of the mounds, which was unique and satisfied the clients.

Feng Shui Mandala, 1978

The Mandala Astrological Tarot cards were originally painted in 1972 when I returned from living in Morocco and India, and repainted at a large scale in 1986 for publication. They are circular mandala images within square cards. The cards may be rotated and placed on either of the four astrological angles: upright (MC), upside down (IC), leaning left (ASC) and leaning right (DSC). Each card is a stage-set or initiation chamber for a level in the process of achieving wholeness. All colors are coded magically and the images are derived from traditional medieval, Egyptian, Rosicrucian and other mystical languages.

I have designed many book covers (in addition to most of my own books) for sympathetic authors and publishers. "Chakras, Rays and Radionics" and "Ray Paths and Chakra Gateways" were both designed for my friend David Tansley, the premier radionic practitioner and theorist of our era. The covers reflect graphic healing concepts because radionics is healing with patterns.

I have designed many logos for companies created by individuals or organizations who also have a spiritual agenda and want their corporate image to reflect both business and spirit. These logos contain or are based on archetypal symbols and geometries and therefore evoke powerful identification. Genese manufactures a vitamin/mineral formulation for osteoporosis and is primarily for women, therefore its symbol is a double lotus. Galaxen magazine used the Milky Way Galaxy. Wellspring Vitamins combined the double helix of the dna molecule within the caduceus, showing the organic quality of the minerals. Elmebech alternative accountants in Copenhagen shows the elm tree of its location street and the ideas of solidity and firm roots and also the Egyptian hieroglyph for "flow." The Art of the Possible logo utilizes an infinity symbol in its design. ScanLase dental lasers utilize an ancient Vedic sun symbol.