Wildwood Tarot
2011
Will Worthington
UK
Art Medium:
Fine detailed pen drawings, coloured with watercolour.
Description:
This tarot derives in part from the Greenwood Tarot of 1996, which Mark Ryan created with the artist Chesca Potter. The designs for this new deck are by Will Worthington, who re-envisions Chesca Potter's images rather than slavishly copying them. The card names rare substantially the same as the earlier deck, which renamed the Majors. Thus the Fool is The Wanderer, Magician becomes The Shaman, Priestess The Seer, Empress, The Green Woman and so on. The suits are Arrows, Bows, Vessels and Stones. The idea is of a return to a romanticised shamanism based on a magical encounter with the natural world.