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The four suites of its 56-card small arcana cups, wands, pentacles, and swords loosely represent the suites of the standard playing deck: hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds. Alexandra Eldridge, The 5 of Cups (2020 ), water soluble paint, Venetian plaster on panel Eldridge worked on her suite of tarot images, which includes the 22 cards of the major arcana, over a 12-year period.
However it takes paint beautifully. If I slipped up, I could easily 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 approximately 70 of the paintings at her studio gallery on Friday, Nov. 19. She's a mixed-media artist who frequently incorporates surreal, dreamlike imagery into her work. She makes photo-based paintings in which historical images, drawn from glass plate negatives, are combined with initial painting. Human figures are provided the heads of animals, or animals frequently appear beside the postured figures.
She lived with her then-husband on a 70-acre ranch, where they promoted an imaginative neighborhood that was constructed around the concepts of English poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake (1757-1827). Alexandra Eldridge, The Wheel of Fortune (2011 ), water soluble paint, Venetian plaster on panel "I was a student, and I wed my art teacher.
We placed on plays and pageants. My ex-husband invested much of his life involved with the work of Blake. We called the ranch Golgonooza, which is from Blake's mythology, suggesting the visionary city of art. Blake was actually just a stepping off point. More In-Depth had had to do with 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 mind, which I pay a lot of attention to, that's where the art goes.