Join prolific author and artist Lucy H. Pearce and her creative guests - writers, artists, creatrixes - for profound and practical conversations about what creative magic means to us. We'll reflect on what, how and why we create, what drives us...and what stops us in our tracks. We share honestly how we find the time and energy to make magic in the midst of life's challenges and why we keep on saying yes to our creativity.
Lucy is known for giving real and raw interviews, and now she shares this form of deep dive conversation with many of her favourite creative people.
The first season of Creative Magic is the Wild Initiations series, featuring her immensely popular intimate conversation series recorded to celebrate the launch of her 12th book Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods... She will also be joined by some new guests diving into the themes of wild nature, symbols, initiation and creative magic.
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Join prolific author and artist Lucy H. Pearce and her creative guests - writers, artists, creatrixes - for profound and practical conversations about what creative magic means to us. We'll reflect on what, how and why we create, what drives us...and what stops us in our tracks. We share honestly how we find the time and energy to make magic in the midst of life's challenges and why we keep on saying yes to our creativity.
Lucy is known for giving real and raw interviews, and now she shares this form of deep dive conversation with many of her favourite creative people.
The first season of Creative Magic is the Wild Initiations series, featuring her immensely popular intimate conversation series recorded to celebrate the launch of her 12th book Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods... She will also be joined by some new guests diving into the themes of wild nature, symbols, initiation and creative magic.
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Sangu Mandanna is a British–Indian author of adult, young adult, and middle grade fiction. She is best known for her fantasy romance novels The Very Secret Society Of Irregular Witches and A Witch's Guide To Magical Innkeeping.
We talked about:
In the Extended Episode www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
Join us for the Creative Magic book club www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
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Sarah Robinson is the best-selling Womancraft Publishing author of multiple books on magic and witches including: Yoga for Witches (now in French, Chinese, Polish and Farsi), Yin Magic, Enchanted Journeys, The Kitchen Witch Companion, The Witch & the Wildwood ,
and Womancraft Publishing’s fastest selling pre-order ever, Kitchen Witch: food, folklore and fairytale. Her newest book Witch Country: Seeking the Witch in the British Landscape is out on October 31st.
A yoga teacher and author based in in Bath, UK. Her background is in science; she holds an MSc Psychology & Neuroscience and has studied at Bath, Exeter and Harvard universities. She is host of the Witch Country podcast.
You can listen to Sarah’s popular episode from Season 1 of Creative Magic – Let’s All Run Away and Live in the Woods, and learn from her and myself in the Weaving Magic with Words episode in Season 3, as well as discover some of her favourite books in a bonus episode on my Patreon – for $6/ month.
Join her for her Masterclasses live on Zoom on October 29th and November 5th. Find out more at Womancraft Publishing
Find Sarah online:
Website: www.sentiayoga.com
Instagram: @Yogaforwitches @thisiswitchcountry
Podcast: Witch Country
Insight Timer: Enchanted Journeys with Sarah Robinson
We talked about:
The Season of the Witch – whether it’s over commericalised and what it means to us
Time release magic
Social media, performance and authenticity
The importance of digging for roots
Balancing whimsy and the dark history of witch hunts.
The place and witch that impacted her most as she researched Witch Country
Some of our favourite good witches from 20th century film
In the extended episode – over 15 mins of extra content just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:
The backstory as to why Sarah is “friend of the pod”
Apple magic
Real world social media content making struggles
Witch marks – what they are and how to find them.
An extra extract from Witch Country
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Crowned ‘the defender of female awesomeness’ by Cooler magazine, everything Lisa creates is an invitation home to yourself. To your voice, your rhythms + your own reality.
A reality that’s remembered + respelled by you.
She writes, teaches + shares in the sweet spot between feminine philosophy, sensual creativity + personal myth-making. Her work is rooted in the depth of Hélène Cixous, the erotic truth-telling of Anaïs Nin + the accessible ritual of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way.
She is the best-selling author of Witch, Code Red, Love your Lady Landscape, Self Source-ery + Venus.
Instagram @sassylisalister
Join us for the Creative Magic Book Club www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
Today we talked about:
The Importance of Writing and Telling Our own stories
Cyclical intelligence
Her mutism as a child
The witch wound – women being silenced down through lifetimes, ancestral fear of speaking out
Being seen – and discernment as to who we share our skills with
Creating the most magical version of ourselves that our soul most longs for
Navigating paradox
EDS (hypermobility) and magical women
Neurodivergent women and masking
Publishing and self-publishing
Being too much
Prolific
Women in creative process
Join us for a deeper dive in the extended episode – just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
Where we get raw and real, and share our personal experiences of publishing and self-publishing
An extract from her book, Witch.
We mentioned
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Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman is the artist and illustrator of "The Divine Feminine Oracle", The Spellcasting Oracle” and “The Sutras of Unspeakable Joy”. She is a visionary artist who merges magick and technology with traditional mediums to create new interpretations of myth and archetype. Through her work she explores shamanic, astrological and mythological constructs to interpret the liminal worlds of the Divine Feminine, incorporating art and talisman to create a third phenomenon, or magical reality. Her art was included in Witchcraft - Taschen and features in The Divine Feminine Oracle that she created along with Meggan Watterson, on the covers of The Mistress of Longing and Gina Martin’s Daughters of the Goddess series.
In honor of the Great Mother, and as personal witness, she creates all work under the pseudonym "SheWhoIsArt".
Website: www.shewhoisart.com
Facebook: facebook.com/shewhoisart
Instagram: @shewhois
We talked about
The soul in art
Art as a vessel for the sacred
Sacred Feminine perspective on current events
Feminine representation in the Bible and why it goes untaught
Her work with Megan Watterson on the Divine Feminine Oracle.
Her artmaking process – creating light
Symbology of the Feminine
Finding and trusting the real in this post-truth world
In the extended episode – over 45 mins of extra content just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:
Perimenopause and menopause – wise woman insight
Migraine and creativity
Symbology – the Alphabet vs the Goddess
Ancient women cave painters
Her twinkle box
AI as a creative and business tool
The female roots of modern Western abstract art
Her religious background
Facebook and IG jail
Balancing our creatrix and business parts
Resources
The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects
Discover Your Inner Symbols – Masterclass
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
Women Who Run With the Wolves and Mother Night – Clarissa Pinkola Estes – listen to our Creative Magic special on Women Who Run with the Wolves
The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed
The Great Cosmic Mother
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Ep 43 Sophie Messager –The Beat of your Own Drum
Sophie Messager bridges worlds that rarely meet. A former reproductive physiologist with a PhD, she traded her microscope for a medicine drum after experiencing the transformative power of an empowered birth. Her decade-long journey as a doula, birth educator, and author of Why Postnatal Recovery Matters deepened her exploration of the rhythms surrounding women's transitions.
Now a holistic life transition mentor, Sophie guides women through significant life thresholds—from birth to perimenopause and beyond. Her unique combination of scientific expertise and spiritual insight allows her to serve as a compassionate space holder for those seeking to harmonise their analytical and intuitive selves.
Her new book The Beat of Your Own Drum: the history, science and contemporary use of drumming as a path for women’s wisdom, health and transformation is published by Womancraft Publishing and available everywhere now.
Her podcast The Wisdom Messenger
We talked about:
Drumming as nervous system regulation
Drumming and birth
Bridging the intellectual and spiritual worlds
Wearing many hats
Intuitive drum and intuitive dance
Women’s life transitions
Reclaiming childhood joys
Neurodivergence and regulation
How we have lost regulation in contemporary patriarchal society.
For a deeper dive, join us for the Extended Episode – just $3/ month, exclusively on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce - where we discuss
Schuman Resonance
Microdosing – drumming and psylocibin.
Resources
Come as You Are – Emily Nagoski
Jane Hardwicke Collings
The Emerald – The Revolution will not be Psychologized
Women Making Noise conversation series
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Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) is the internationally renowned and award-winning author of over twenty novels, plus novellas, cookbooks, scripts, short stories, libretti, lyrics, articles, and a self-help book for writers, TEN THINGS ABOUT WRITING. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Sheffield and Huddersfield, is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
She performs in a live music and storytelling show with the #Storytime Band.
She also has a form of synaesthesia which enables her to smell colours. Red, she says, smells of chocolate.
Author image credit - Kyte Photography
We talked about
In the extended episode just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:
Resources
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Victoria Firth is a writer, theatre maker and performer based in Yorkshire. Her work is concerned with embodiment and connection, exploring things lots of us feel but don’t really talk about. Her one-woman show, about childlessness and reinvention, ‘How to be amazingly happy!’ toured nationally; she curated a collection of writing on the presentation of the body – inspired by her live art performance ‘The Butter Piece’; her poetry has recently been published in Northern Gravy's anthology. She is now producing her second play 'Batty!' exploring witches as role models for women othered by social norms and our reciprocal connection with nature. She can be found walking on the moors or wild swimming with her dog Blaidd.
Website: https://www.victoriafirth.co.uk/
BATTY! Information and tour dates: https://www.victoriafirth.co.uk/batty/
Instagram: @msvhf
Facebook @msvictoriafirth
We talked about:
· Her new show – Batty, about a midlife woman reclaiming her wildness
· Making space for our creativity as women
· Redefining success…and failure
· The three stages of creativity
· Becoming a performer in midlife
· Navigating the inner battle between the creative drive and the need for inner safety
· “the bell that keeps ringing”
· The invisible economy of the arts
· Creativity, magic and being highly sensitive
In the extended episode, just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:
· Perimenopause
· Structural divergence and patriarchy busting
Books Mentioned
The Highly Sensitive Person – Elaine N. Aron
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Sarah Detweiler works out of her home studio undulating between her art practice and motherhood. She explores beyond the traditional boundaries of painting by including various hand embroidery techniques and mixed media materials into her work. Motherhood, nostalgia, and themes that touch on the universality of the human experience all have significance in her work.
An award-winning artist, Sarah has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions in galleries across the country and virtually. She exhibits regularly at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia where she has had 2 sold out solo exhibitions.
www.instagram.com/SD_Artifacts
www.paradigmarts.org/collections/sarah-detweiler
We talked about:
· Hidden Mothers
· The shame umbrella
· Weirdness, feralness and domesticity
· The Creative Rainbow Mother archetype
· My book The Rainbow Way – the Artist’s Way for creative mothers
· Creative evolution and getting bored
· Her definition of success
In the extended episode just $3 on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:
· The crossover between ADHD and Barbara Sher’s Scanners and Elaine M. Aron’s highly sensitive person
· Creative rabbit holes
· The feral forties and perimenopause and Women Who run with the Wolves
· Her ADHD puppet alter ego
Books Mentioned
The Rainbow Way: cultivating creativity in the midst of motherhood
Women’s Bodies Women’s Wisdom – Christiane Northrup
The Creative Act – A Way of Being – Rick Rubin
Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy – A Womancraft Compendium
Refuse to Choose – Barbara Sher
The Highly Sensitive Person – Elaine N. Aron
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Join Lucy and special guests as they celebrate the magic of the sea in an atmospheric episode weaving prose, poetry, music and musings on how the sea can inspire, heal and transform.
Featuring extracts from the new audiobook of Lucy's She of the Sea and many special guests including:
Join us for a deeper dive in the Extended Episode, available on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce for $3/month to unlock:
More from the She of the Sea audiobook
Extended contributor pieces including
Molly’s incredible ancestral connection to US maritime history as well as hear some of her newest and as yet unpublished sea poems
Extra poems from Clare Beloved
A brand new Eleanor Brown song, not available anywhere else
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A solo episode from Lucy looking back on this season's guests and looking forward to Season 4.
Lucy's book She of the Sea is now available in audiobook
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Ingrid Sanchez, also known as CreativeIngrid, is a Mexican-British artist based in London. Celebrated for her vibrant, nature-inspired paintings, Ingrid uses her art to explore the connection between the natural world and the human spirit. Her work reflects a deep appreciation for color, movement, and the organic beauty of flowers, foliage, and celestial motifs.
Ingrid primarily works with watercolors, inks, and acrylics on paper, using bold, expressive brushstrokes to bring her vision to life. Through constant experimentation, she reinterprets the elements found in gardens and forests, creating artwork that invites viewers to see the world from a fresh perspective—one where nature and spirit converge.
Since 2016, Ingrid has been painting professionally, selling her original artworks to collectors worldwide and licensing her designs for a wide range of products. Her watercolors have been featured in art prints, stationery, home décor, textiles, and more, with collaborations including brands like Tervis, The Happy Planner, Makers Collective, and Moonpig.
Ingrid has led workshops in the USA, Mexico, and Europe, sharing her unique approach to watercolors and mixed media. In addition, her published works include contributions to Watercolor Techniques for Artists & Illustrators (2019) and her own book, DIY Watercolor Christmas (2021). Her dynamic style has been spotlighted in leading publications, including Artists & Illustrators Magazine
Online school: https://watercolorfoundations.com/
@creativeingrid on Instagram
We talked about:
Her childhood experiences of creativity – and magic.
Her techniques including brush dancing
Creative evolution and the different media she works in
Her passion for the moon
Women’s circles
Magic, intuition and playfulness
Teaching and learning – and how one often becomes the other
Intention and ritual at every part of the creative and selling process.
In the Extended Episode just $3/ month on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we dive deeper into:
Watercolour technique and her innovative use of masking fluid
Water as a living thing and how she infuses the magic of water into her paintings
Her experience creating a book
We mentioned:
Dr Masuro Emoto – The Hidden Messages in Water
Gather: A Celebration of Women’s Circles
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Jacqueline Wild aka Glitter and Earth, creates whimsical illustrations inspired by the Cornish landscape and coastline. She lives in a 120 year old granite miners cottage close to Land’s End where tales of mermaids, witches and pirates fuel her imagination.
Born in Greenwich, London, her holidays to Cornwall created memories of dancing along the shoreline and swimming in rockpools, which acted as a constant reminder to return.
After gaining a degree in English at Worcester, Jacqueline and her husband- to-be packed all their belongings into a VW camper and made their way to Newquay to live a more holistic lifestyle and learn to surf.
Jacqueline pursued a career as a freelance writer for many years but it wasn’t until the birth of her daughter that she really embraced her calling as an illustrator. Working on her iPad while her daughter slept enabled her to hone her skills and start to pave the way to a full time career as an artist.
We talked about
How and why she started making digital art
Creativity in early motherhood
How we came to meet
She of the Sea
Having her art seen
What the sea means to her
Underwater joy
In the Extended Episode www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talk in more detail about
Digital art and Procreate and traditional vs modern techniques of draftsmanship
The full story behind our collaborative She of the Sea project
Freediving
How to get your work printed and published as an artist
We mentioned
The Rainbow Way: cultivating creativity in the midst of motherhood
Ithell Colquohoun – listen to the Creative Magic episode all about her
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Ep. 37 Coco Oya Cienna-Rey - Heeding the Call
My guest today is Coco Oya Cienna-Rey, author of Digging for Mother’s Bones launching this week from Womancraft Publishing. Coco is a UK based mother, grandmother, creative, mystic, soul guide and writer. Her creativity is informed by her journey as a devotee of the Tantric path (an embodied path of self-liberation) and her personal journey with trauma. She has always felt a call to channel the Voice of the Divine Feminine and is published in several bestselling anthologies. Often thought provoking, yet always heartfelt her work speaks of the sacred wisdom stored in the body, the non-linear nature of trauma and the embodiment of soul. She believes that our innate connection to the natural world can heal humanity. Her podcast ‘Sirens of The Mother’ is receiving growing recognition. As a deeply sensitive, highly empathic gifted intuitive Coco can be found weaving her soul-coaching embodiment work at www.creativelycoco.com
Her Sirens of the Mother podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/5Bsau0nYAk0tozjjYZQiK3?si=e4bdf418de754486
https://www.instagram.com/creativelycoco/
We talked about:
-Creative birth and mothering the creative baby.
-The challenges of having too many creative ideas.
-Creativity as a holy order.
-The Mother and the Cosmic Womb.
-Trauma – writing from the scar and not the wound.
-The impact of her Near Death Experience.
-The sensuality of creativity.
Join us for a deeper dive in the Extended Episode – available on Patreon for just $3
-We venture deeper into transmuting trauma through creative expression and healing our ancestral lineage – TRIGGER WARNING for mentions of suicidal ideation and abuse.
- A deeper dive into the challenges and gifts of dyslexia and her journey to becoming a writer.
Links for you
The Launch Event for her book, Digging for Mother’s Bones, 27th June 7-8pm UK time https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83909212570
Digging for Mother’s Bones – signed copy
Digging for Mother’s Bones – Amazon
Descent & Rising: women’s stories and the embodiment of the Inanna myth
Gather: a celebration of women’s circles – the second Womancraft Compendium – pre-orders open Sept. 5th on Womancraft Publishing
Gina Martin’s Episode – The Somatic Magic of Writing
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A special episode on all things magic, to celebrate the launch of my new e-course - Writing Nature + Magic, co-taught with best-selling author of Kitchen Witch and Yoga for Witches, Sarah Robinson. Between us we have written over 20 books!!
In this episode we reflect on:
What magic is
Learning to switch lenses from the mundane to the magical
Ways of entering magical writing consciousness
Words as spell craft
Nature as mirror
Shifting from observer to creative collaborator with the process
About the E-course
Writing Nature + Magic - 4 glorious weeks of creative classes and oodles of magical resources.
Starts 9th June.
Sign up now at https://womancraftpublishing.com/product/writing-nature-and-magic/
-Study the classes at your own pace.
-Engage with us on the Facebook group and final sharing circle on Zoom.
Writing Nature + Magic is a soulful, elemental journey through earth, fire, water, and air — blending creative prompts, readings, meditations, and practical gathered wisdom from bestselling authors, to deepen your connection with the natural and the mystical.
Whether you’re a complete beginner or experienced writer, or anywhere in between, this course is for you. We will help you to connect with your creativity, activate your imagination, engage with the wonder of the natural world and add sparkle and precision to your language.
This course explores the practical magic of:
-Developing a nature-inspired writing practice rooted in the four elements.
-Learning to see the natural world through a magical lens.
-Working with prompts to unlock creativity and deepen intuition.
-Discovering sensory writing and seasonal storytelling techniques.
Co-created by Womancraft award-winning author and founder Lucy H. Pearce and bestselling author Sarah Robinson, this brand new 4-week e-course invites you to write with the wild, remember the sacred, and awaken the magic in the everyday.
Get the Masterclass recording over on Patreon
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Kat Shaw is a visual artist based in the UK who is known for her vibrant celebratory paintings of real, juicy naked female bodies.
Over the last 7 years, Kat has painted over 3000 glorious women into Goddesses, held many successful exhibitions and live shows, run enriching workshops and paints not only onto canvases, but also directly onto women’s bodies!
As an activist artist, Kat prides herself on dismantling the patriarchy, breaking society’s stereotypical views of beauty and challenging every negative paradigm that women have been drip fed since birth, instead, encouraging them to step into unapologetic empowerment.
Having made her name painting the glorious nude reality that is a woman’s body, self-worth, self-love and self-belief are at the centre of her art, rather than airbrushing, filtering, photoshopping and the “only one size fits all” approach to beauty.
Glorifying every single body shape, Kat challenges the images of perfection of the female form that are so rife in today’s culture.
Heads up this is a fabulously sweary episode with lots of talk about women’s bodies and nakedness.
We talked about:
How making art was a bridge to loving her body
Celebrating and glorifying real women’s bodies
The good old days of Facebook when it connected us to women around the world and didn’t censor women’s art
Nakedness
NIPPLES!
The way patriarchy drips into every area of our lives
Art and activism
Her Kat Walk where almost 60 women walked naked
Painting 113 women in under 6 weeks this year
ADHD, creativity and menopause
In the Extended Episode – only $3/month on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
We dive deeper into:
Parenting our kids when they are in crisis and the toll it takes
Navigating body dysmorphia
Nipples
Women’s safety and the language around assault
ADHD
MASTERCLASS - Writing Nature and Magic with Lucy H. Pearce and Sarah Robinson May 28th 7pm on Zoom
TO ACCESS THIS EXCLUSIVE EVENT:
SIMPLY PURCHASE A SIGNED COPY of one of these titles from the Womancraft Publishing webshop between 22nd - 27th May:
And we’ll email you your EXCLUSIVE INVITATION to this Masterclass
(Only purchases made on the Womancraft webshop within this timeframe qualify for this offer.)
Resources
Rainbow Goddess: Celebrating Neurodiversity – Girl God
Changing History into Herstory – Kat Shaw, Girl God
Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy
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Caroline grew up in Birmingham and then the rural landscapes of Worcestershire, with a love for the wild, poetry and dance, passionate about creativity, mystery and myth. She moved to Ireland in 1992 for 17 years.
Say Caroline: “Despite early challenges with trauma, self-doubt and unconventional learning styles, I discovered the power of creativity and a deep connection to the soul through dance, poetry and storytelling. This journey led me to understand the impact of trauma and the importance of finding new perspectives on my past experiences, which were laden with difficulties to overcome.
From very early on I developed a conscious connection to the world of soul and my ability to see, to sense and to connect with my own soul-guidance. Mothering my six, now adult children gave me the art of play, creativity, story-telling and opened up the deep surrender and unconditional love that motherhood can bestow. Being a grandmother, has deepened and matured my skills to a sensitive wisdom with lots of humour.”
A published writer of seven books, a speaker and Soul Retrieval guide facilitating workshops and gatherings, Caroline has created The Wheel Of Soul’s Return and The Polarity of Purpose as models for finding the meaning and contribution to each person’s story.
LINKS
https://www.facebook.com/caroline.carey/
https://www.instagram.com/carolinecarey__/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinecarey/
We talked about:
5 Rhythms dance and her training with Gabrielle Roth
Her Middle Earth Medicine
Trusting the body and resisitence
How our birth, death and rites of passage impact our creativity
The Thespian’s dilemma
Leaving home too soon
What she learned from shamanism
Inspiration and spirituality
Her writing life
Creative entrepreneurship
In the extended episode – just $3/ month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
Personal stories about her experiences with Gabrielle Roth
How her Middle Earth Medicine got its name
Extended video episode for $6/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
Resources:
Elixchel (Elisheva healing art movement
My interview on her podcast: Soul Purpose with Caroline Carey
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Eleanor Brown is a songwriter and music maker who believes that creating is essential and the driving force of life. She writes songs that support both the descent and the rising and the oscillation between the two.She has sung in forests, fire circles and protest rallies; festivals, events and pubs; prisons, churches and schools; by the sea, on top of mountains and in front of thousands of people. She’s been commissioned to write songs for the theatre, for personal celebrations, for women’s empowerment movements and social action projects and through this has performed in both the UK and the U.S.
She is an independent artist carving a way that works for her in a music industry not designed for thin skinned beings. She has released 7 albums including one she crowdfunded 10,000 for and is currently working on number 8 whilst releasing new music monthly to her Patreon community.
She also lives and works on the land, growing organic food for the community so as to try and remain as autonomous as possible.
Many have credited Eleanor’s songs to saving their life and supporting them through their darkest moments.
‘BEAUTIFULLY CAPTURING THE SPIRIT OF THE WORK THAT RECONNECTS’ – Joanna Macy
Eleanor’s Links
We talked about:
Performing alone and with others
The struggle to earn enough as a creative to be able to afford the support you need as an artist
Anxiety and the creative process
Mentors and patrons and supporters
The toxic culture for artists today
Spiritual bypassing and cognitive dissonance
The value of being small
Recovering from burnout
The tap that doesn’t turn off
Weaving the web of creativity together
Beyond Happily Ever After – how to create if things don’t get better
In the extended episode, from just $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce
Behind the scenes info on the very beginning of Womancraft Publishing
Where and how she records her music
Creative spaces and times of day
Her songs in order of appearance:
Meet You There
In the Name of Hope
A Call to Stand
We Will Not Be Lost to These Times
Links
Sophie Strand – the Body is a Doorway
Everybody Hurts – REM
Jagged Little Pill – Alanis Morrisette
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Jaine Rose lives in the Cotswold town of Stroud, happily making art in her plant-filled and colourful studio in the corner her attic house. She’s had a pretty wild journey through art, parenthood, and the alchemy of women's circles and rituals. He work is an ongoing enquiry into women's spirituality which I see as the dynamic and ever-changing way that we reclaim our innate connection to a vast realm of magic. She works unapologetically with bold and vibrant colour, combining portraits, with flowers, magical creatures, trees and hills and other wonderful, often abstract details. Says Jaine, “I could talk endlessly about witchcraft, and our beautiful land that is worth fighting for. Or my insane love of cats, all animals, starry skies, lying in woodlands staring up at the trees, of all the things that fill me with wonder. Also all the things that have the power to move me, or even break my heart. So many stories, we all carry them.
And so I ponder this as I travel relentlessly and obsessively between the oceans of the West, and the oceans of the East, magical places where witches be. My heart places.”
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jaineroseart - for her artwork
www.instagram.com/jainerose123 - pieces of life
We talked about
Her concept of the Competent Artist
How she creates art
Her move from pottery to visual art, and the place of writing in her work
Colour and what it means to her
Moving through grief with creativity
Her creation of her Witch’s rosary
Her experience of “the lights”
How magic changes as we get older
In the extended edition - access for just $3+ on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:
Trauma and storytelling
Art and activism
The Red Hearth – a powerful women’s circle she is part of
Resources:
Kesty Jakes and Sladebank Woods
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Amy Hale is an Atlanta based writer and critic with a PhD in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA. Her research interests include contemporary magical practice and history, art, culture, women and Cornwall. She has written widely on artist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, and has been an academic advisor to the 2025 Colquhoun retrospective Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds at Tate St. Ives and Tate Britain. She wrote the first scholarly biography of Colquhoun,
Ithell Colquhoun Genius of the Fern Loved Gulley followed by the collection Sex Magic: Diagrams of Love, (Tate Publishing, 2024).
Her book, Beyond the Supernatural: Magic in Contemporary Art is due to be published with Tate Publishing in 2026.
Amy’s Website
Treadwell's Lecture Series – here and here
Ithell Colquhoun (1906 –1988) "One of the most radical artists of her generation, Ithell Colquhoun was an important figure in British Surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s. An innovative writer and practicing occultist, Colquhoun charted her own course, investigating surrealist methods of unconscious picture-making and fearlessly delving into the realms of myth and magic. She explored the possibilities of a divine feminine power as a path to personal fulfilment and societal transformation. Her understanding of the world as a connected spiritual cosmos brought her to Cornwall, where she deepened her creative explorations, inspired by the region's ancient landscape, Celtic traditions, and sacred sites."
From Ocula.com Guardian article on Ithell
We talked about:
Some of Ithell's most iconic paintings and where she fits in the story of art
Surrealism and the lack of women
Fascinating developments in automatism and understandings of the subconscious
Colour theory and magic, from the Golden Dawn, anthroposophy and theosophy
Being an outsider...her relationship to occult and artist groups
Sex magic
Artists who don't receive recognition in their lifetimes
In the extended episode:
The Kabbalistic tree of life, The Golden Dawn and their influence on Ithell’s colour theory and palette
Crowley's table of correspondences
Colour mixing
The story of Amy’s Sex Magic contract with the Tate
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My guest today is Jen Louden, best-selling author of nine books, and passionate women’s advocate. Since 1992 Jen has been a leading voice on self-care, creative transformation, and helping women own their desires.
With close to a million copies sold in nine languages, Jennifer has appeared or been quoted in hundreds of media platforms, including The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is a former columnist for Whole Living, a Martha Stewart magazine, and her work has been featured in Brené Brown’s books
Daring Greatly and Dare to Lead.
We talked about:
Why we need our witches right now
Finally writing a novel all about magic and midlife women
Reinventing yourself
Moving beyond “Pick Me”
Agents and publishers, and how publishing has changed since the ‘90s
The disappointment of the reality of being on Oprah’s couch
Walking away from projects and knowing when to let things go
The Conditions of Enoughness – her groundbreaking concept for developing self trust in yourself as a creative
Creative motherhood and the male privilege of no interruptions
On being ruthless as a creative woman
In the extended episode - available on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce for $3/month+
We deep dive into neurodivergence- discovering her neurodivergence, how it’s impacted her work, her work arounds.
References
The Rainbow Way: cultivating creativity in the midst of motherhood
The Shit No one Tells You About Writing podcast
Get Published with Lucy H. Pearce
Teach Now!
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