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The 4 suites of its 56-card minor arcana cups, wands, pentacles, and swords loosely correspond to the suites of the basic playing deck: hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds. Alexandra Eldridge, The Five of Cups (2020 ), water soluble paint, Venetian plaster on panel Eldridge worked on her suite of tarot images, that includes the 22 cards of the major arcana, over a 12-year period.

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But it takes paint wonderfully. If I slipped up, I might quickly scrape it off with a razor."The whole suite was released this year in a boxed set and accompanied by The Radiant Tarot: A Guide to the Cards (Red Wheel/Weiser, 208 pages, 78 tarot cards, $40), a book by author, teacher, and poet Tony Barnstone.

Eldridge debuts around 70 of the paintings at her studio gallery on Friday, Nov. 19. She's a mixed-media artist who often incorporates surreal, dreamlike imagery into her work. She makes photo-based paintings in which historical images, taken from glass plate negatives, are integrated with initial painting. Human figures are offered the heads of animals, or animals often appear next to the presented figures.

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She coped with her then-husband on a 70-acre cattle ranch, where they fostered an innovative neighborhood that was constructed around the ideas of English poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake (1757-1827). Alexandra Eldridge, The Wheel of Fortune (2011 ), water soluble paint, Venetian plaster on panel "I was a student, and I married my art teacher.

We put on plays and pageants. My ex-husband invested much of his life involved with the work of Blake. We called the cattle ranch Golgonooza, which is from Blake's folklore, suggesting the visionary city of art. Blake was really just a stepping off point. The exhibitions we had were about visionary art."Eldridge considers herself a visionary artist and is inclined to follow the imagery she receives in dreams and manifest them in her paintings."Whatever is going on in  Source , which I pay a lot of attention to, that's where the art goes.