For technical reasons, the mandalas have been organised into several, broadly thematic galleries. Click on one of the mandalas below to go to the gallery named beside it. Once inside the gallery, click on any mandala to access its own page.

On each mandala’s page, you will also find an evocative text. These texts have emerged from my own contemplation of the completed designs in conjunction with their titles.

The titles in some cases derive from another, similarly intuitive project, in which the mandalas were chosen to illustrate a number of translations of the poems of the 13th-century Persian mystic, Jelaladdin Rumi. This earlier process alerted me to some of the significances lying buried in the designs, somehow brought out by the words of Rumi. Now I have developed those first intimations into the texts placed by each mandala.

For the other mandalas, the titles were originally derived from my response to the completed design. I have then similarly contemplated the image and its title together, and noted whatever messages seemed to emerge from this conjunction.

In every case, however, the mandala pre-existed the thoughts and reflections that appear in its accompanying text. All therefore stand alone, and function perfectly well as meditation aids, without such a verbal context. So, while contemplation of a mandala in conjunction with its text may help the intellect and feelings to connect more deeply with the image, this process is not true meditation.

In the latter, the meditator simply allows the design itself to ensnare the eye and the mind, and becomes lost in it for a while, as far as possible without any active thinking happening. As the eye moves towards and away from the centre of the design, or dances around from line to line within the circle, the mind settles, bringing an increasing experience of inner stillness and silence.