by budedawnadmin | Aug 23, 2023 | book, Pamela Colman Smith, Review
I recently received a copy of this delightful new book on Pamela Colman Smith (and Madge Gill) by Andrea Miles. The author’s unique conceptual approach is a concise biography of Smith and Gill, coupled with an interpretation of each woman’s birth chart,...
by budedawnadmin | Jun 24, 2023 | article
“You may have the universe, if I may have Italy.” – Guiseppe VerdiĀ From the dazzling but functional, gleaming white washing-machines adorning the balconies of small suburban apartments, to Michelangelo’s hugely sublime pristine white marble...
by budedawnadmin | Jun 17, 2023 | article
In 2015/16, I lost nine people from my life, from my big brother to my good friend’s daughter, and many friends somewhere in between, some close. People asked how I coped. My answer probably came across as flippant but wasn’t meant that way: “Well,...
by budedawnadmin | Jan 29, 2022 | book, Pamela Colman Smith
This looks an interesting book if only I could afford it. This is the abstract: This essay seeks to disprove the myth that the illustrator of the iconic Rider-Waite Tarot, Pamela Colman Smith, was bi-racial and Black-identified. Smith was the descendant of two...
by budedawnadmin | Oct 3, 2021 | article, book, Pamela Colman Smith
As any reader of my book will know, Parc Garland on The Lizard, was the home of Pamela Colman Smith for around 20 years. When I first visited, it was dilapidated but also a creamy buttermilk colour, rather striking, but never seen by Cornwall Council as an house of...