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The four suites of its 56-card minor arcana cups, wands, pentacles, and swords loosely represent the suites of the basic playing deck: hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds. Alexandra Eldridge, The 5 of Cups (2020 ), water soluble paint, Venetian plaster on panel Eldridge dealt with her suite of tarot imagery, that includes the 22 cards of the major arcana, over a 12-year duration.

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However it takes paint wonderfully. If I made an error, I could quickly scrape it off with a razor."The whole suite was released this year in a boxed set and accompanied by The Glowing Tarot: A Guide to the Cards (Red Wheel/Weiser, 208 pages, 78 tarot cards, $40), a book by author, educator, and poet Tony Barnstone.

Eldridge debuts around 70 of the paintings at her studio gallery on Friday, Nov. 19. She's a mixed-media artist who often incorporates surreal, dreamlike imagery into her work. She makes photo-based paintings in which historical imagery, taken from glass plate negatives, are integrated with initial painting. Human figures are provided the heads of animals, or animals frequently appear next to the postured figures.

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She dealt with her then-husband on a 70-acre cattle ranch, where they promoted an imaginative neighborhood that was developed around the concepts of English poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake (1757-1827).  Source , The Wheel of Fortune (2011 ), water soluble paint, Venetian plaster on panel "I was a student, and I married my art professor.

We put on plays and pageants. My ex-husband invested much of his life included with the work of Blake. We called the ranch Golgonooza, which is from Blake's folklore, suggesting the visionary city of art. Blake was actually simply a stepping off point. The exhibits we had were about visionary art."Eldridge considers herself a visionary artist and is inclined to follow the images she gets in dreams and manifest them in her paintings."Whatever is going on in my psyche, which I pay a lot of attention to, that's where the art goes.