Paintings

Spirit of Easter Island
(oil on ply, 2009)

Based on the story of the inhabitants of Easter Island, who cut down every tree in order to move their massive carved heads - only to find they had doomed themselves, this picture suggests the fate which may overtake humanity as we despoil the planet.

SwanSong
(acrylic on paper, 2006)

Again, based on myth, this time Celtic myth, of brothers changed into swans. Their sister avoided the spell and spent years weaving shirts for them, to try to break the spell. In the end she was successful, though the sleeve on the last shirt was never completed, and that brother retained his swan's wing...

Cilla is a visionary artist, born in Holland and brought up in Zimbabwe. She studied Graphic Art at Natal Technical College in Durban (South Africa), but found her true path only when she came to Britain and discovered the Tarot in 1973. This showed her another world, perhaps a parallel dimension to our own, where archetypal energies surged and danced, and things seemed deep and true - the world we catch a glimpse of in reflections, or in dreams.

After painting a full tarot deck (The Intuitive Tarot, published by St Martin's Press and Connections Publishing in October 2004), she began painting large oils, starting with Night Dancers in 1987. These figures in these images seemed immensely powerful, and taught her much as she worked - about them, about herself, and the Otherworld itself. Between 1997 and 1991 she did a degree in Fine Art, where she learned about the incredible work being down in light and land, video, and installation. She now works with these media whenever she can, as well as continuing her painting.

Cilla now works as an artist, workshop facilitator, and psychospiritual counsellor using the Tarot and her new set of cards, the Devas of Creation.

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