Work by intuitive and visionary artists is often valued because of the creators’ ready access to images from the unconscious. Bontempo is particularly adept at plumbing his unconscious for entities that appear to be either angelic or demonic beings, as well as outlandish hybrids of humans, animals and plants rendered as almost flat silhouettes with abstract markings and patterns. These figures are usually delineated against a neutral background as if to emphasise their primal mythic embodiment beyond all contexts or conditions. {read}