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December 6, 2025 59 mins

We're back for Part 2! Artist, Jennifer Coates joins me again to discuss 2 modern-day women mystic artists: Cornish Visionary, Ithell Colquhoun and Desert Transcendentalist, Agnes Pelton.


Ithell Colquhoun links and mentions:

"Papers of Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988)" archive at Tate Modern

The Living Stones: Cornwall book by Ithell Colquhoun

"The Mantic Stain" 1949 essay by Ithell Colquhoun

"Dance of the Nine Opals" 1942 painting by Ithell Colquhoun

"Scylla" 1938 painting by Ithell Colquhoun

"Alcove" 1946 painting by Ithell Colquhoun

Elliott Green, artist

Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds ed Katy Norris

"Taro of Color": Ithell Colquhoun's Tarot Deck 1977


Agnes Pelton links and mentions:

Transcendental Painting Group, incl Raymond Johnson

Hilma Af Klint

Helena Blavatsky & Theosophy

Alchemy 1937-9

Mother of Silence 1933

Photo of Agnes Pelton in Cathedral City 1932


Mystical Book Nook

The Living Stones: Cornwall book by Ithell Colquhoun

Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds ed Katy Norris

Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill

On Mysticism by Simon Critchley

Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women by Caroline Walker Bynum

Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully by Amy Hale

Weird Studies Podcast: Amy Hale episode

Medieval Women: the Curators' Lunchtime Lecture on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUgweMmuhyI

Medieval Women: Voices and Visions (British Library) ed Julian Harrison & Eleanor Jackson 

Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist (Phoenix Art Museum) ed Gilbert Vicario

The Spiritual in Art: Abstract

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