Stories
Orpheus’s journey into the realm of the dead is built around sound, attachment and a single backward glance. His song moves stones and binds the underworld,…
Across cultures, the sun has been imagined as ruler, witness, healer, ancestor and trickster. Depicting sun gods across cultures therefore reveals two stories…
The Celtic knot looks simple: a line crossing, passing under and returning without a visible beginning. Yet its looping rhythm can evoke infinity, protection…
A personal altar is a deliberately arranged place for attention, prayer, or inner reflection. It can hold a painting, stones, flowers, and a written intention.…
Birds in Imelda Almqvist’s sacred paintings are never simply decoration. They carry sky, instinct, warning, passage and transformation. Based in London, this…
Spider Grandmother appears on the loom as maker and message: a figure of creativity, patience and the ability to connect separate worlds. In Imelda Almqvist’s…
Sacred names sit where language, belief and image overlap. A divine epithet may convey praise, invocation, protection or instruction, yet calligraphy adds…
Darkness in a painting can be an invitation rather than an absence. It may hold fear, grief, instinct, secrecy, or the parts of a self that public life leaves…
Images of the afterlife often combine reassurance with mystery: a garden, a star field, a threshold, or a body returning to life. Yet paradise is not one…
Myths often place a tree at the point where human desire changes course. The golden bough opens a forbidden threshold, while the apple of discord releases…