Sushila Burgess Art 2018

January to late March: nearly three months painting ballet dancers and people sitting under willow trees.
End of March: I returned to the Tarot. This new deck, done in a very quick spontaneous way with Sharpies, harks back to my childhood love of drawing with felt-tip pens! Partly for that reason, it is called the “Tarot of the Younger Self”, but another reason is the influence of The Spiral Dance by Starhawk — to me, as to many others, a life-changing book about paganism. Starhawk talks vividly about different aspects of ourselves using the names Younger Self and Talking Self, and these terms have stuck in my mind thirty years or more since I first read her groundbreaking book.
June and October: brief diversions from the Tarot to draw placards to carry while marching for a People's Vote in London — people ought to have the right to vote again, this time in the knowledge of what the deal will be, if there is even a deal at all.
New Year's Eve 2018: I completed the last card in my new deck, which can now go on sale.