During my time at Reading university my art practice has firmly been rooted in an exploration into esoteric imagery. I have been interested in Tarot cards for a number of years now, incorporating them into my work seemed like a natural step forward. I have been creating my own versions of Tarot cards based on the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, published in 1909. This iconic deck was illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith who did not get the recognition or credit she deserved in her lifetime. Disheartened by the way she and her art were treated, I wanted to re-claim the imagery through my work. Thereby, making a statement through a modern feminist lens not available to Smith at the time of her working.

This has been executed through various mediums I have explored; the first of which is collage. I took purposefully generic photographs from my own life and painted symbolic imagery linked to the Tarot over them, creating seventy-eight pieces, my first set of cards. Furthermore, by digitizing and then screen-printing these images onto fabric, I can incorporate them into my installations for exhibitions. As, I have also experimented with performance art at university, by giving Tarot readings to anyone at our formative exhibitions.

My work, stemming from a long-standing aesthetic appreciation of cards I have engaged with for years (and humanity has engaged with for decades), I practice communication and explore a sense of community in a way that is both meditative, therapeutic and informative. I am able to express a feminist reclamation of a medium that is impactful and historic through a contemporary lens.