Yesterday, with ego bruised from my failed technical experiments with walnut ink and stamping, I spent some time away from the studio and instead worked in the kitchen. I was making one of Barefoot Contessa’s recipes for baked chocolate pudding. It called for some fresh vanilla bean. As I peeled away the seeds and pulp of the bean I was put in touch with the magickal allure of the Goddess Gaia. It was over a decade ago that I discovered Goddess Spirituality. Over a short time, I came to realize the power that the divinely feminine goddesses would have on my life. For nearly a decade I wrote a column for “Sage Woman,” magazine and this column was a vessel at the time for my spirituality, now that shift has moved more towards the garden, artmaking and writing books and articles. I mention the garden because I see and experience the Goddess and goddesses in nature most prominently. When I hold and smell any of my favorite herbs I am immediately...
The virtual studio of author and artist Stephanie Rose Bird brings together artistic process and reflection with the literary arts, in a manner that is designed to be instructive and inspirational.