#56 - Camille Rose Garcia, Dark Artist of Refracted Fairy Tales

The Witch Wave

Pam Grossman

Arts, Visual Arts, Spirituality, Other, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Season 4! Camille Rose Garcia is a world renowned painter, illustrator, and author whose work is steeped in warped fairy tales and (super)natural magic. The child of a Mexican activist filmmaker father and a muralist/painter mother, she apprenticed at age 14 working on murals with her mother while growing up in the suburbs of Orange County, visiting Disneyland, and going to punk shows with the other disenchanted youth of that era.

Her fine art has been displayed internationally and featured in numerous magazines including Juxtapoz, Rolling Stone, and Modern Painter, and is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Resnick Collection, and the San Jose Museum of Art, which held a retrospective of her work, entitled Tragic Kingdom, accompanied by a catalog of the same name. Garcia’s book, The Illustrated Alice in Wonderland (Harper Collins) was a New York Times Bestseller, and she has also illustrated such classics as Snow White and Cinderella. Her latest book, The Cabinet of Dr. Deekay, a surrealist fairy tale she wrote and illustrated, is out now from Sympathetic Press. She currently lives in woods of the Pacific Northwest.

On this episode, Camille discusses how she came to be a painter of the dark feminine, the power of subverting fairy tales, and the vivid magic that comes with being an art witch in the woods.

Pam also speaks about the autumn and underworld stories, and answers a listener question about how to engage in shadow work.

Our sponsors for this episode are Clarissa Eck Ceramics, The Modern Witches Confluence, and BetterHelp.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Witch Wave is brought to you by Clarissa Ek.
0:06.0	Clarissa Ek is a potter creating hand-carved, illustrated mugs, planters, and altar plates which call upon animal messengers,
0:17.0	ancient plant knowledge, and hermetic symbolism to stir the depths of the spirit. I am lucky enough to own some pieces by
0:26.9	Clarissa and they are stunning. Every piece of pottery she creates is a spell, a gentle reminder of those in-between moments
0:37.8	that make life rich with wonder and mystery.
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1:03.2	Exciting news. The Modern Witches Confluence is meeting virtually for its third annual
1:10.3	gathering from October 29th through November 1st to celebrate the diverse
1:17.1	ways of the modern witch. Now I was at the modern witch's Confluence in person in San Francisco last year,
1:25.6	and it was truly one of the best witchcraft festivals I've ever been to,
1:30.4	so I'm so thrilled that they're taking it online this year.
1:35.0	Now you can join them from anywhere in the world
1:39.0	for witchy workshops and community spirit,
1:42.0	from an incredible lineup of teachers including
1:45.6	Aja Daschor, Kira Taborn, Lindsay Mac, Edgar Fabian Frias, Dory Midnight, and many more.
1:55.0	This year, the Witch's Confluence is delighted to be offering community reparation
2:00.3	tickets, supporting the efforts of cultivating community care and equity.
2:06.4	So go ahead and register for the 2020 Which is Confluence at which is Confluence.org
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