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Limited edition Artwork Tarots


I have begun to publish a number of exciting tarot designs in small editions signed by the artist of 100 copies only. This enables the work of tarots artists who cannot find a mass market publisher to get their work into the form of a printed deck. These decks are really for collectors who appreciate tarot as art and they will be well printed and packaged and of interest to the small band of enthusiasts and collectors of tarot. Being an artist myself I try to work sensitively with artists in order to produce a deck as close to their original conception as possible. The edition is small compared with the enormous "limited" editions of some tarots (some, such as the Italcards, as many as 3000 copies!), so these should be very collectable. Because of the high costs involved, most of the decks, certainly in the early stages of this project, will be the 22 majors only. Prices will be around £50 ($85).
Sixteen decks are currently available as of November 23rd 2007. They will not be available through dealers (as it is not possible to discount the price) but only by direct mail order from this website.

What about postage costs ? I myself buy a lot of tarot decks and books and I can get rather annoyed when I find that the dealer is adding on a large amount for postage. I suspect other people feel the same way. So I have instead included the postage cost in the price - so that is what one actually pays with no hidden extras, post and pack, handling charges etc.
If you would like to receive advanced notification by email of new titles in this series please send your email address to Adam McLean <adam@alchemywebsite.com> or just click    here


    Artwork Tarot No. 16.
The Lebanese Tarot by Caroline Mehlinger-Jawlakh.  
These wonderfully luminous images celebrate the diversity of Lebanese culture.
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    Artwork Tarot No. 15.
The Phantomwise Tarot by Erin J. McCauley.   This wonderfully atmospheric tarot is painted using a restricted palette of blacks and warm greys. Her art is influenced by myth, fable, fairy tales, the works of Lewis Carroll in particular and the phantasmagorical in general.
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    Artwork Tarot No. 14.
The Son Tarot by Chris Butler
This deck celebrates the more mysterious and mystical aspects of same sex love but this is only one of its faces. On another level it expresses how the feminine Tarot archetypes express themselves through the lives of the male human being. The Mystic (card 2) and the Bountiful (card 3) show male embodiments of the High Priestess and Empress. They challenge men to connect with and express these feminine energies. Available now !
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    Artwork Tarot No. 13.
Fortuna's Wheel Tarot by Nigel Jackson who is well known for his Medieval Enchantment Tarot issued in 2000 and because of its popularity subsequently reprinted. He has now produced this Majors only deck in a similar style. This deck is classic tarot imagery delightfully recreated.
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    Artwork Tarot No. 12.
The Ascension Tarot by Elizabeth Berg. Elizabeth Berg's totally positive view of the spiritual evolution of the human soul is pictured through her strong and detailed pen drawings for her tarot created in 1999. She presents a journey of the soul from the initial card of Faith where the fool is seen following the dove of the spirit, through to the final card of Exalted Consciousness where the soul itself becomes the dove of peace ascending into the divine light.
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    Artwork Tarot No. 11.
The Quantum Tarot by Christopher Butler and Kay Stopforth. Set against backgrounds of photographs of stars and galaxies, this digitally manipulated photo collage deck explores tarot imagery through a filter of modern fundamental physics. In this deck a new approach to understanding tarot imagery through the ideas of modern physics merges with a truly creative artistic conception.
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    Artwork Tarot No. 10.
Tarot Obscura by Chris Bivins. This deck is a beautiful example of computer collage and digital image manipulation. Each card has, within its complex texture, a powerful photograph chosen to reflect the tarot imagery, and is subtly colour toned. There are many people today doing digital manipulated photo collage, but Chris Bivins is certainly one of the most skilled and expressive artists in this medium.
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    Artwork Tarot No. 9.
The Aleph Tarot by Rossetta Woolf. These are the remaining 40 copies of this wonderful deck based on Rossetta's watercolour paintings, and signed by the inspirer of the imagery, Aleph Kamal. 250 copies of this deck were produced in 1994 and it is almost unknown to the tarot community. The remaining stock of around 40 copies is now offered for sale in the Art Tarot series. Only 12 copies left !
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    Artwork Tarot No. 8.
The Rotin tarot is intriguing and enigmatic. It reduces and focusses the familiar tarot images to minimal forms which retain the archetypal structure, indeed, Peter Rotin's artistic condensation seems to have given the tarot arcana even more powerful expression. An amazing black and white deck by this artist based in Malta.
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    Artwork Tarot No. 7.
The Chalice Tarot is a beautifully coloured deck whose images seem to glow with inner life. It was painted by Lynda Stevens and is quite well known through images seen on some web sites. But now the Major arcana have been issued as an actual deck.
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    Artwork Tarot No. 6.
The Corneal Edema Tarot by John R Dybowski leads us into a dark and mysterious gothic world. The artwork here is strong, coherent and with a delightful beauty of style.
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    Artwork Tarot No. 5.
The Tarot of the Sidhe by the British artist Emily Carding was inspired by the sigil of the Great Glyph of the Sidhe. The Sidhe (pronounced 'shee') is the ancient Irish name for the Faery race. The artist has used this glyph, together with her personal attunement to those energies, to aid in the creation of this deck of wonderful flowing colours.
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    Artwork Tarot No. 4.
The Sylph tarot was created by the american artist, singer, composer writer and translator Tyran Grillo who was born in 1978 in California. He created this deck because he had yet to see a butterfly themed tarot. In addition to this being a personally significant symbol for him, the butterfly, as a symbolic gesture at least, he thinks suits the rather full spectrum of human experience in all facets of life, from the mundane to the esoteric.
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    Artwork Tarot No. 3.
The Alchemical Wedding tarot is a very unusual and powerful tarot deck. Its imagery is strong and disturbing. The artist, David Aronson, uses the tarot form to explore images that are both unsettling and at the same time so beautifully crafted that they engage us and perhaps this is the nature of the alchemical wedding which he is inviting us to join.
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    Artwork Tarot No. 2.
Marie-Claude Purro, a self-taught artist, was born on in 1962 in Fribourg, Switzerland. From 1993 to 1994, she lived in the small town of Praia de Mira, Portugal where she painted the 22 major arcanes of the Tarot. She says: "I studied and understood each arcane before painting it. This is how I found treasures of symbolisms about everyone's daily life, experiences, unhappiness, happiness, fears, power, spirituality; every day, one or more cards, 'appeared' to me according to what I was about to say or do. Each of those 22 cards corresponds to a different feeling, a highly enriching experience."
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    Artwork Tarot No. 1.
The Alchemical Emblem tarot was designed by F. J. Campos who lives in Barcelona. He is well known for the many tarot decks he has designed for the Orphalese Tarot system. For this deck he selected some of alchemical emblems which have been coloured by Adam McLean, and which seemed to resonate with the particular tarot card symbolism.
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I am also in negotiation with a number of other artists about publishing their work.
To keep in touch with developments in this project do ask to join the mailing list    adam@alchemywebsite.com.