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 | 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...
by budedawnadmin | Dec 13, 2020 | book, Cornwall, Pamela Colman Smith, tarot
Well, it’s been a while coming. Over the last few years, many people from other countries have asked why Pamela Colman Smith, the subject of my book, who died in Bude, has no plaque or indeed any reference to her life in the town. Pamela first moved to Upton...
by budedawnadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | book, Cornwall, Pamela Colman Smith, publication, tarot
When commissioned by Amberley Publishing to write my third book on the beautiful Cornish coastal town of Bude, Secret Bude, I never imagined it would lead me to travel around Cornwall and Devon in search of clues about the world-famous tarot artist, Pamela Colman...
by budedawnadmin | May 4, 2020 | book, Cornwall, Pamela Colman Smith, publication, tarot
While a lot of the world is on pause, book publishing goes on. Schedules are created but with bookshop closures and shipping delays, it can be hard to get hold of them. Mine is one of them. As Lionel Shriver says in this article: Q: How do you feel about your new...
