Visual Arts: The Stone Tarot

Alison Stone is the creator of The Stone Tarot.

You are a licensed psychotherapist. Do you use artwork with your clients?

I'm a Gestalt therapist, so I use whatever emerges in the session. It has to originate with the client, though. For example, in my old office I had artwork on the wall (chosen by the landlord) and sometimes people would comment on it. Also, occassionally I have c lients who want to work with tarot images. We can work with anything -- events, dream images, posture, our relationship. Art is just one more possibility.

The only time I've worked with clients making their own artwork is when I see children. Drawing can help them express things more easily than simply speaking.

Your use of color is bold and vibrant. Has that always been your painting style?

As long as I've been painting. I love color and am drawn emotionally and spiritually to those colors. However, before I started painting I did a lot of drawing, which was always black and white (pencil or charcoal.) SInce discovering painting, I haven't had the same excitment about drawing.

What artists have had a strong effect on you and your own work? There are so many! I love that Blake was a poet and a painter -- he inspired me for years when teachers were saying I had to pick one. I love Henri Rousseau, Kandinsky, the Pre-Raphaelites, Van Gogh...

How did you become interested in tarot? Do you use tarot with your clients?

I became interested in tarot as a child when I got my first deck from a toy store. I tried to memorize the meanings and do readings, but it never felt right. Still, I felt so drawn to the deck and the images. I started collecting decks and reading about the variations in images. It was always a fantasy of mine to paint my own, and when I was 24, I just started.
If a client suggests using the tarot, or if I know they are "in to it," then it becoems part of our work. But I have a variety of clients -- some are investment bankers who I doubt have heard of the tarot.

You are also a published poet. What are you working on now?

My book, They Sing at Midnight, was recently published. (It won the Many Mountains Moving Poetry Award.) So I'm doing the "business" end of poetry -- trying to promote the book, doing mailings, readings, etc. I haven't written much new stuff at all. I spent almost twenty years on the poems in They Sing, so I want it to get out there!

The Stone Tarot can be purchased at:
http://hometown.aol.com/newtarotdeck/myhomepage/business.html

They Sing at Midnight is available from Amazon and other book outlets:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1886976147/qid=1101318670/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-8153224-5096936?v=glance&s=books

All images copyright Alison Stone

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