Creative Alchemy Workshop
The Royal Art as a Spiritual-Creative Process

Taught by Marlene Seven Bremner

Saturday, September 27, 2025
1-5 pm MST

$125 - materials included
Workshop Limit: 8

 Electra Gallery
825 Early St. Suite D
Santa Fe, NM 87505
free parking

Creative Practice, Art, Alchemy. Join us for a unique opportunity to learn from author, artist, and alchemical scholar Marlene Seven Bremner.

Theory meets practice in this four hour intensive workshop that will explore Hermetic Alchemy as the practice of bringing a project to its final perfection. Students will learn how this royal art unifies the inner and outer worlds and provides a process to integrate spirit and matter. Suitable for the artist and intellectual alike.

Workshop Description

Known as the “Royal Art,” alchemy teaches us how to transmute our life into a masterpiece through the profound interplay of consciousness and matter. Whether we are working with materials in an alchemical laboratory, writing poetry, composing music, painting, or simply wanting to live a more creative life, alchemy is the key to unlocking the vast potential and unlimited imagination that lives within us. 

We will begin with the legendary Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus and developing an understanding of alchemical creation, and the miraculous transmutations of the “One Thing.” From here we will cover alchemical theory and cosmology, including the prima materia or mysterious “first matter,” the anima mundi or “world soul,” the four elements, the tria prima or “three principles,” the seven planetary metals, and the legendary philosopher’s stone. We will discuss the principle of correspondence and the relationships between the macrocosm and microcosm, and how to work with these relationships in a creative alchemical practice. 

Finally, we’ll look at the four color phases of the Great Work (black, white, yellow, red) and how they can be understood and navigated for spiritual growth, deeper self-knowledge, reconciliation of the opposites, and the liberation of your full creative potential.

This workshop will include a slideshow and presentation, as well as group discussion, and introduction to a creative practice to open the prima materia of the imagination.

In this course you will learn:

• The basic philosophies and theories of Hermetic Alchemy

• The 4 stages of the Great Work as a spiritual & creative process for self-transformation

• The qualities and influences of the 7 traditional planets

• How to integrate alchemy into your life and artistic process

• Tools for personal empowerment & transmutation