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Art can be a threshold between visible and invisible experience. The Shaman's Journey: Three Worlds in One Painting offers a vivid interpretation of that…
Imelda Almqvist’s shamanic paintings give physical form to invisible forces. Soil becomes a body, breath becomes rhythm, flame becomes an alert presence, and…
Exploring the rune of protection: Algiz and other symbols in composition brings an old visual language into contemporary studio practice. Algiz, with its…
A drum pattern can become a starting point for painting without becoming an illustration of sound. Its pulse may suggest repetition, its accents a change of…
Chthonic spirits belong to earth and the border between visible and unseen worlds. Imelda Almqvist’s shamanic paintings make them presences of ancestry and…
A labyrinth is a map of movement, attention and return. Unlike a maze, it does not demand that we solve a puzzle or defeat a dead end. Its single winding route…
The Moon offers a changing visual language for shamanic art. Its waxing, full, waning and dark phases can suggest growth, revelation, release and the fertile…
The serpent carries several meanings: danger, renewal, fertility, protection and passage between visible and unseen worlds. The ouroboros, a snake consuming or…
Earth colours carry a distinct sense of place. Ochre brings warmth, clay offers a cooler body colour, and charcoal supplies velvety blacks and soft greys. Used…
Mandrake and mugwort are plant allies in ritual painting because they carry vivid associations with danger, sleep, protection, prophecy and passage. Mandrake,…