The 4 suites of its 56-card minor arcana cups, wands, pentacles, and swords loosely represent the suites of the standard playing deck: hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds. Alexandra Eldridge, The Five of Cups (2020 ), water soluble paint, Venetian plaster on panel Eldridge worked on her suite of tarot images, that includes the 22 cards of the major arcana, over a 12-year duration.
But it takes paint perfectly. If I slipped up, I could easily scrape it off with a razor."The entire 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 roughly 70 of the paintings at her studio gallery on Friday, Nov. 19. She's a mixed-media artist who often includes surreal, dreamlike imagery into her work. She makes photo-based paintings in which historic images, taken from glass plate negatives, are combined with original painting. Human figures are offered the heads of animals, or animals typically appear beside the positioned figures.
She dealt with her then-husband on a 70-acre ranch, where they fostered an innovative community that was built 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 married my art teacher.
We put on plays and pageants. My ex-husband spent much of his life involved with the work of Blake. Check Here For More called the cattle ranch Golgonooza, which is from Blake's folklore, suggesting the visionary city of art. Blake was actually just a stepping off point. The exhibitions we had were about visionary art."Eldridge considers herself a visionary artist and is inclined to follow the imagery she receives in dreams and manifest them in her paintings."Whatever is going on in my mind, which I pay a great deal of attention to, that's where the art goes.
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