Noah Jordan’s paintings occupy a threshold between the natural and the visionary. Working through the imagery and symbology of psychoactive flora—San Pedro cactus, Datura, Angel’s Trumpet—his practice extends the tradition of artists who have sought transcendence through nature and altered perception. ”For thousands of years plant medicines have been used ceremonially to expand consciousness,” Jordan notes, “Rooted in direct experience my work reflects an understanding born not of belief but of encounter—a way of seeing that recalls what can only be known first hand.”
Each painting functions as both encounter and offering. The plants are rendered with precision but also reverence, their petals, stems, and spines charged with metaphysical suggestion. In this, Jordan’s work joins a lineage that includes Odilon Redon’s dream botanicals, Leonora Carrington’s vegetal hybrids, and Hilma af Klint’s meditative abstractions—artists who treated the natural world as a living transmitter of spiritual truth. His compositions hover between still life and apparition, giving form to the unseen conversations between plant and mind.
Where psychedelic art of the 1960s leaned toward spectacle, Jordan’s approach is meditative, almost devotional. "The experience is not about escape,” he explains, "but about coming back to the world changed and learning to live in integrity with what has been revealed.” His paintings invite that return, translating the ineffable into color and light—a visual record of consciousness expanded, then stilled.
