Reviews

Though I’ve worked with numerous divination decks throughout the years, I’ve never yet used Kipper cards until this week when Schiffer/ Red Feather very kindly sent me the bright and beautiful ‘Rainbow Kipper‘ cards designed and created by Toni Puhle and Steven Bright. Rainbow Kipper Merging tradition with contemporary art, these thirty-six, colour-coded Kipper cards are designed specifically to aid readers to explore their day-to-day environment, and to make for easy fortune-telling. Toni Puhle & Steven Bright Born in Sheffield in 1975, Toni Puhle has studied and researched the traditional systems of Lenormand, Kipper, and Gypsey cards in England, France,…

Having worked with a variety of divination tools and techniques over the years, I’m always appreciative of the opportunity to delve into something new. Like many, I am a huge fan of Deborah Koff-Chapin’s stunning Soul Cards, of which there are two separate decks. After having shown my admiration for these decks via social media, Deborah very kindly reached out to offer me the opportunity to review, feature and work with her latest release – The Portals of Presence, and as you can imagine I was delighted to do just that! Deborah Koff-Chapin Deborah Koff-Chapin (BFA Cooper Union) is an…

Having spent a fair amount of the past fourteen months homeschooling my children due to the lockdown, I’ve been sure to equip myself with a wide range of tools and resources in order to provide a high level of quality education and learning for my children whilst they’ve been unable to attend school.  Given that both J & E love to draw, paint and expand their learning through the medium of Art, I purchased numerous mediums and materials such as oil pastels, chalk pastels, high-quality pencil crayons, artists pencils, and some watercolour paints, which I myself have since enjoyed using.…

Liminal 11 recently sent me a copy of their latest release – ‘The New Chapter Tarot‘. Designed and created by the internationally recognised, award-winning, graphic novelist and arts educator Kathryn Briggs,  this diverse, delightful and marvellously modern Tarot deck is a story, a journey, and one woman’s self-portrait of change. Kathryn Briggs Kathryn began her comic-making career whilst pursuing her Masters at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art with a feminist reimagining of the archetypal Hero story, “Story(cycle)”. She later launched her independent small press ‘Ess Publications’ with this ground-breaking comic.  Following her success, Kathryn won the Elsinore Award for…

I may be in my late thirties but I’m a big kid at heart and still take great pleasure in reading comics, and why not? There’s plenty of adult comics out there and I can completely understand why as adulting ain’t all it’s cracked up to be – it’s far from easy and it’s not all that often that we get the chance to sit down and to enjoy a book, so when we do at last manage to park our backsides on the bed, sofa or wherever we may land, it’s quite the welcome break to be able to…