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“However veiled the Feminine is always naked.” Marion Woodman
Linda HIll – Printmaker
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My creative path is the the joyful art of print-making and life drawing. I enjoy the process, and the unexpected. My interests are Jungian psychology, mythology and alchemy. My life continues to be a journey of enquiry and exploration of the Divine Feminine of how She travels in both ancient and contemporary times. She is found in myth, story, poetry and dreams and it is in these place that I meet her greet Her.
“My speech is imperfect. Not because I want to shine with words, but out of the impossibility of finding those words, I speak in images. With nothing else can I express the words from the depths.” C.G.Jung
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My first print of 2020 : May our year ahead be full of laughter and belly ! The ancient Greek belly goddess BAUBO speaks from ‘between her legs’. She plays an important part in the greatest mystery of the ancient world, the Eleusinian Mysteries. Her story begins when she encounters Demeter, the Earth Goddess, whilst walking in the wild valleys. Demeter was sodden with tears and ravaged with grief and despair at the abduction and loss of Persephone, her daughter. Baubo engaged this sad soul in conversation and very soon started to tell her obscene jokes accompanied by raucous belly laughs. Demeter was shocked but slowly started to smile at this surprisingly crude, playful and joyous old woman who had started to dance crazily pulling open her skirt. Baubo then directed, among other things, her belly, breasts and vulva towards Demeter. The mourning Goddess found herself suddenly overcome with a laughter that rose up from her belly. Her darkness fled from her, her spirit soared and her own power within moved her life journey onwards. The belly Goddess had shaken Demeter out of her grief by reminding her of the sacred feminine which sat at the centre of her being ….of which they both shared. Baubo welcomes us back to life with her wild laughter, her shaking belly and the magic of her vulva . Her wisdom can bring us back from darkness by reminding us of who we are so we can thrive once again……I AM LIFE (The flowers in this print are CLITORIA a genus named after the human clitoris, for the flowers bear a resemblance to the vulva. #redseedsart #redseedsoracle #theredseedsoracle #redseedsoracle2 #oraclecards #sisters #mythologyart #goddessart #oraclecommunity #oraclereadersofinstag#oraclecardreading #womenartists #womanempowerment #feminineart #goddess #femaleartists #mythologyart #divinefeminineart #greekmythology #oracledeck #divinefeminine # #thegreatmother #oraclereview #equalitynowAs we start the youthfulness of this decade I am contemplating the absence of NAKED TRUTH in our world. ”A life lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.' ...Marion Woodman... and so here is a new print of the Greek Goddess HEBE daughter of Zeus and Hera. Her role was to feed fragrant ambrosia and nectar to the deities, a food which conferred immortality and the gift of youth to all who consumed it. It was a duty she carried out faithfully. Here we see Hebe standing in her beauty, naked and in the prime of life holding a bowl from which Zeus disguised as a golden eagle feeds from. The eagle represents immortality and like the phoenix was believed to have the ability to renew itself back into a youthful state of being. Hebe’s downfall came one day when she fell whilst in attendance to the Gods, causing her dress to fall to the floor exposing her naked body. She was damned and literally de-frocked by this incident and her role as cup-bearer was immediately taken from her. In ancient Greece as in many other cultures, in antiquity and in modern times, nakedness in women was/is seen as immodest or shameful. “However veiled the Feminine is always naked.” Marion Woodman Today the sexual objectification of women's naked bodies continues to disempower and reduce the authenticity of women. For that reason in my work as an artist I present naked images of the Feminine as an anti-objectification platform neither to be viewed as shameful or provocative but to express a state of being........... I AM NAKED.... 🙏thank-you to all who have supported my work ...such a blessing❤️ ”A life lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.' ...Marion Woodman #redseedsart #redseedsoracle #theredseedsoracle #redseedsoracle2 #oraclecards #sisters #mythologyart #goddessart #oraclecommunity #oraclereadersofinstag#oraclecardreading #womenartists #womanempowerment #feminineart #goddess #femaleartists #marionwoodmanMerry Xmas ❤️ ... I so enjoy connecting with you all...have a magical and inspirational 2020🙏.....”This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.” ― Marion Woodman #redseedsart #redseedsoracle #theredseedsoracle #redseedsoracle2 #oraclecards #sisters #mythologyart #goddessart #oraclecommunity #oraclereadersofinstag#oraclecardreading #womenartists #womanempowerment #feminineart #goddess #femaleartists #mythologyart #divinefeminineart #greekmythology #oracledeck #divinefeminine # #thegreatmother #oraclereview #equalitynow- Alchemy
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Monthly Archives: July 2015
Hermaphroditus…Child of the Sun and Moon
This is a new print in my ongoing Alchemy series. This ancient art is also called “The Great Work” and is said to produce the perfect hermaphrodite or androgyne. Symbolically this is done by immersing the Sun king and Moon … Continue reading
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Tagged Alchemy, ancient history, hermetic, myth, Print-making, sun and moon, transformation
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Cerise and Reuben….a Love story
A Love story ..a story of love-sickness oh! how it hurts ….. inspired by an event put on by the Drawing Circus from Brighton 💜 and the song “Cerise and Reuben” by Robert Hunter and Gerry Garcia of the Grateful … Continue reading
Athena and her shield of protection…..
“If you always greatly honor with kindness the kindly ones, you will surely be preeminent, keeping your land and city in the straight path of justice.”…….Athena. Aeschylus, Eumenides As we all know the Greek people are suffering tremendous anguish and … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient history, archetypes, divine feminine, Goddess, guardian, life, mythology, priestess, Print-making, protection, wisdom, women, world
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