Faustus Crow

Mardun is principally a Surrealist Artist, whose author's name is Faustus Crow; but both art and writing alchemically merge of a sacred wedding.

Mardun has an experiential interest in lucid dreaming, which of a neurological phenomenon has inspired artists and authors throughout the ages, from whose creations since the time of the painted cave wall of a Shaman have sprung insights into the nature of reality, which became ensuing mystical traditions, such as the occultism of Aleister Crowley to that of the Surrealist 'fantasy fiction' of H.P Lovecraft.

Mardun does not see a division between the practices of art and magic; for both practices deal with symbolism, which is the subconscious language form of surrealist dreams and of your fantastic Imagination, which also inspires your culture.

Mardun has been an artist for most of his life. As for a formal art education, he attended the Wimbledon School of Art after leaving school, and later, attending the London University; both were attended for but a brief time, which was invariably cut short due to crippling financial constraints and other tumultuous life events. After attending the Wimbledon School of Art, he was a commercial artist for a number of years, who did freelance artwork for numerous RPG magazines and their associated books, when they were in vogue, as well as doing work for the IPC comic 2000AD before it was taken over by Rebellion Studios. Mardun then went on a vision quest, which of a winding path led to many a Muse, who, likened to raging Tibetan Dakini's initiated Chöd around the medicine wheel of life, which of synchronistic experiences led to his non-conformist art becoming fused with his rebellious writing; whence as an author he calls himself Faustus Crow. Mardun eventually got into self-publishing, whereupon he creates his own art books; some of them being experimental, which are of the Kindle variety; whereas the finished works are Createspace paperbacks.

At the moment Mardun's work is being exhibited in his art books.