THE TAROT SERIES 

My first introduction to the Tarot was The Definitive book of the Tarot by Kathleen McCormack which I bought in London sometime in the early 1990s. It is dedicated to Geraldine Beskine, who I later got to know and who is the owner of the Atlantis Bookshop in Museum Street. This book mentions the link between the Tarot and The Kabbalah, Eliphas Levi and The Golden Dawn.

My Tarot paintings and my ideas behind them have evolved over twenty years. They were painted in a variety of shapes and sizes, just as, I am reliably informed, by Geraldine Beskine, were the sets produced for personal use by the members of the Golden Dawn. They are rooted in this tradition.

I have elaborated more on these links in my article on Surrealism and the Tarot, which was first published by Patastrophe in October 2025.