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This exhibition comprises two collaborations, one with astrologer Joanne Jardine to produce the Tarot Deck, and the other is an extension of this project, in collaboration with John Bauer, the Potter.

I have been working over the last year with astrologer, Joanne Jardine collaborating on a deck of Tarot cards.  The idea of creating my own Tarot Deck, started during my research for my MFA Thesis - Moria, A Eulogy of Folly, when I began looking at Alchemical Engravings from the Mutus Liber, Robert Fludd and Nicholas Flamel engravings, and viewing various Tarot Decks, such as the Visconti Deck (circa 1450), the well known and most widely used Rider- Waite and the Marseilles Deck. These influenced my works from that period, most obviously with the large etching; The Empress and the Wheel of Fortune.

It has taken me over 10 years to begin with the card project again, and in my research, I have referred mostly to the format of the Marseilles Deck (circa 1748), with additional reference to Aleister Crowley's Book of Thoth, which describes in detail his interpretation of the Tarot.  Other influences have been an ongoing interest in Alchemical Texts, the writings of Johannes Fabricius, Eliphas Levi and Robert Allen Bartlett, amongst many more.
Joanne Jardine has a B.A. Psychology degree from UNISA, and has worked as a spiritual counsellor through Tarot for 15 years.
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Title: The Constellation of Pisces
Size: 43 x 83 cm
Media: Engraving on Perspex, Oil and etching plate
Price: R 11 500 framed

The collaborative work with Johan Bauer lies more on the side of Alchemy.  John has taken some of my Tarot etchings, re-organised the design into clay and porcelain and in his own magical way, transformed them with his knowledge of metals and glazes in his furnace. The product of my creative imagination has become calcined in the kiln and recreated in another medium. Solve et Coagula - the artwork has undergone a cycle of life, death and rebirth, exalting matter in Alchemical tradition.
         
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Title: Days of our lives written in the heavens above I
Size: 43 x 83 cm
Media: Engraving on Perspex
Price: R 11 500 framed
 

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Title: Days of our lives written in the heavens above II
Size: 43 x 83 cm
Media: Engraving on Perspex
Price: R 11 500 framed

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Artist: JUDY WOODBORNE
Title: Eve with the constellations of the Zodiac
Size: 43 x 83 cm
Media: Engraving on Perspex
Price: R 11 500 framed
 
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Artist: JUDY WOODBORNE
Title: The Empress and the wheel of Fortune
Size: (44 x 110 cm)(100 x 110 cm)(66 x 110 cm)
Media: Etching
Price: R 25 000 framed

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The Tarot Card etchings are available unframed at R 1 310 each    
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Title: The Fool
Size: 40 x 32 cm
Medium: Etching
Price: R 1 310 Unframed
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Title: The Magus
Size: 40 x 32 cm
Medium: Etching
Price: R 2 175 Framed
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Title: The Empress
Size: 40 x 32 cm
Medium: Etching
Price: R 2 175 Framed
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Title: The Emperor
Size: 40 x 32 cm
Medium: Etching
Price: R 2 175 Framed
             
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Title: The Lovers
Size: 40 x 32 cm
Medium: Etching
Price: R 1 310 Unframed
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Title: Strength
Size: 40 x 32 cm
Medium: Etching
Price: R 1 310 Unframed
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Title: The Hanging Man
Size: 40 x 32 cm
Medium: Etching
Price: R 1 310 Unframed
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Title: The Tower
Size: 40 x 32 cm
Medium: Etching
Price: R 1 310 Unframed
             
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Title: The Star
Size: 40 x 32 cm
Medium: Etching
Price: R 1 310 Unframed
 

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Title: The Moon
Size: 40 x 32 cm
Medium: Etching
Price: R 1 310 Unframed

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Title: The Sun
Size: 40 x 32 cm
Medium: Etching
Price: R 1 310 Unframed
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Title: The World
Size: 40 x 32 cm
Medium: Etching
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The Tarot Card etchings are available unframed at R 1 310 each        
             
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Title: And she was the centre of his universe
Size: 39 x 28 cm
Medium: Etching and Cut-Out
Price: R 3 250 Framed
           

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