Creative Magic

Kat Shaw is a visual artist based in the UK who is known for her vibrant celebratory paintings of real, juicy naked female bodies.

Over the last 7 years, Kat has painted over 3000 glorious women into Goddesses, held many successful exhibitions and live shows, run enriching workshops and paints not only onto canvases, but also directly onto women’s bodies!

As an activist artist, Kat prides herself on dismantling the patriarchy, breaking society’s stereotypical views of beauty and challenging every negative paradigm that women have been drip fed since birth, instead, encouraging them to step into unapologetic empowerment.

Having made her name painting the glorious nude reality that is a woman’s body, self-worth, self-love and self-belief are at the centre of her art, rather than airbrushing, filtering, photoshopping and the “only one size fits all” approach to beauty.

Glorifying every single body shape, Kat challenges the images of perfection of the female form that are so rife in today’s culture.

https://katshaw.art/

Heads up this is a fabulously sweary episode with lots of talk about women’s bodies and nakedness.

We talked about:

How making art was a bridge to loving her body

Celebrating and glorifying real women’s bodies

The good old days of Facebook when it connected us to women around the world and didn’t censor women’s art

Nakedness

NIPPLES!

The way patriarchy drips into every area of our lives

Art and activism

Her Kat Walk where almost 60 women walked naked

Painting 113 women in under 6 weeks this year

ADHD, creativity and menopause

In the Extended Episode – only $3/month on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

We dive deeper into:

Parenting our kids when they are in crisis and the toll it takes

Navigating body dysmorphia

Nipples

Women’s safety and the language around assault

ADHD

MASTERCLASS - Writing Nature and Magic with Lucy H. Pearce and Sarah Robinson May 28th 7pm on Zoom

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Resources

Rainbow Goddess: Celebrating Neurodiversity – Girl God

Changing History into Herstory – Kat Shaw, Girl God

Girl God Books

Womancraft Publishing

Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy

Burning Woman

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Caroline grew up in Birmingham and then the rural landscapes of Worcestershire, with a love for the wild, poetry and dance, passionate about creativity, mystery and myth. She moved to Ireland in 1992 for 17 years. 

Say Caroline: “Despite early challenges with trauma, self-doubt and unconventional learning styles, I discovered the power of creativity and a deep connection to the soul through dance, poetry and storytelling. This journey led me to understand the impact of trauma and the importance of finding new perspectives on my past experiences, which were laden with difficulties to overcome.

From very early on I developed a conscious connection to the world of soul and my ability to see, to sense and to connect with my own soul-guidance. Mothering my six, now adult children gave me the art of play, creativity, story-telling and opened up the deep surrender and unconditional love that motherhood can bestow. Being a grandmother, has deepened and matured my skills to a sensitive wisdom with lots of humour.”

A published writer of seven books, a speaker and Soul Retrieval guide facilitating workshops and gatherings, Caroline has created The Wheel Of Soul’s Return and The Polarity of Purpose as models for finding the meaning and contribution to each person’s story.

LINKS

www.middleearthmedicine.com

https://www.facebook.com/caroline.carey/

https://www.instagram.com/carolinecarey__/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinecarey/

We talked about:

5 Rhythms dance and her training with Gabrielle Roth

Her Middle Earth Medicine

Trusting the body and resisitence

How our birth, death and rites of passage impact our creativity

The Thespian’s dilemma

Leaving home too soon

What she learned from shamanism

Inspiration and spirituality

Her writing life

Creative entrepreneurship

In the extended episode – just $3/ month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

Personal stories about her experiences with Gabrielle Roth

How her Middle Earth Medicine got its name

Extended video episode for $6/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

Resources:

Marketing for Hippies

Elixchel (Elisheva healing art movement https://www.facebook.com/groups/410174569389357

https://www.instagram.com/elisheva.lily/#

Msguided Angel

Unearthing Your Story

My interview on her podcast: Soul Purpose with Caroline Carey

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Eleanor Brown is a songwriter and music maker who believes that creating is essential and the driving force of life. She writes songs that support both the descent and the rising and the oscillation between the two.She has sung in forests, fire circles and protest rallies; festivals, events and pubs; prisons, churches and schools; by the sea, on top of mountains and in front of thousands of people. She’s been commissioned to write songs for the theatre, for personal celebrations, for women’s empowerment movements and social action projects and through this has performed in both the UK and the U.S.

She is an independent artist carving a way that works for her in a music industry not designed for thin skinned beings. She has released 7 albums including one she crowdfunded 10,000 for and is currently working on number 8 whilst releasing new music monthly to her Patreon community.

She also lives and works on the land, growing organic food for the community so as to try and remain as autonomous as possible. 

Many have credited Eleanor’s songs to saving their life and supporting them through their darkest moments.

‘BEAUTIFULLY CAPTURING THE SPIRIT OF THE WORK THAT RECONNECTS’ – Joanna Macy

Eleanor’s Links

Bandcamp

Spotify

Website

Patreon

We talked about:

Performing alone and with others

The struggle to earn enough as a creative to be able to afford the support you need as an artist

Anxiety and the creative process

Mentors and patrons and supporters

The toxic culture for artists today

Spiritual bypassing and cognitive dissonance

The value of being small

Recovering from burnout

The tap that doesn’t turn off

Weaving the web of creativity together

Beyond Happily Ever After – how to create if things don’t get better

In the extended episode, from just $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

Behind the scenes info on the very beginning of Womancraft Publishing

Where and how she records her music

Creative spaces and times of day

Her songs in order of appearance:

Meet You There

In the Name of Hope

A Call to Stand

We Will Not Be Lost to These Times

Links

Get Podcasting

Joey Walters

ALisa Starkweather

Burning Woman

Crow Moon

Creatrix: she who makes

She of the Sea

Sophie Strand – the Body is a Doorway

Everybody Hurts – REM

Jagged Little Pill – Alanis Morrisette

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Jaine Rose lives in the Cotswold town of Stroud, happily making art in her plant-filled and colourful studio in the corner her attic house. She’s had a pretty wild journey through art, parenthood, and the alchemy of women's circles and rituals. He work is an ongoing enquiry into women's spirituality which I see as the dynamic and ever-changing way that we reclaim our innate connection to a vast realm of magic. She works unapologetically with bold and vibrant colour, combining portraits, with flowers, magical creatures, trees and hills and other wonderful, often abstract details. Says Jaine, “I could talk endlessly about witchcraft, and our beautiful land that is worth fighting for. Or my insane love of cats, all animals, starry skies, lying in woodlands staring up at the trees, of all the things that fill me with wonder. Also all the things that have the power to move me, or even break my heart. So many stories, we all carry them.

And so I ponder this as I travel relentlessly and obsessively between the oceans of the West, and the oceans of the East, magical places where witches be. My heart places.”

www.jainerose.com 

Instagram: www.instagram.com/jaineroseart - for her artwork

                  www.instagram.com/jainerose123 - pieces of life

We talked about

Her concept of the Competent Artist

How she creates art

Her move from pottery to visual art, and the place of writing in her work

Colour and what it means to her

Moving through grief with creativity

Her creation of her Witch’s rosary

Her experience of “the lights”

How magic changes as we get older

In the extended edition - access for just $3+ on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce we talked about:

Trauma and storytelling

Art and activism

The Red Hearth – a powerful women’s circle she is part of

Resources:

Earth Pathways Diary

Lucy Rie

Hans Coper

Barbara Hepworth

Francis Weller

Emerson College (UK)

Bayo Akomolafe

Anita Roddick

Kesty Jakes and Sladebank Woods

Starhawk

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Amy Hale is an Atlanta based writer and critic with a PhD in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA. Her research interests include contemporary magical practice and history, art, culture, women and Cornwall. She has written widely on artist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, and has been an academic advisor to the 2025 Colquhoun retrospective Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds at Tate St. Ives and Tate Britain. She wrote the first scholarly biography of Colquhoun,

Ithell Colquhoun Genius of the Fern Loved Gulley followed by the collection Sex Magic: Diagrams of Love, (Tate Publishing, 2024).

Her book, Beyond the Supernatural: Magic in Contemporary Art is due to be published with Tate Publishing in 2026.

Amy’s Website

Instagram

Treadwell's Lecture Series – here and here

Ithell Colquhoun (1906 –1988) "One of the most radical artists of her generation, Ithell Colquhoun was an important figure in British Surrealism during the 1930s and 1940s. An innovative writer and practicing occultist, Colquhoun charted her own course, investigating surrealist methods of unconscious picture-making and fearlessly delving into the realms of myth and magic. She explored the possibilities of a divine feminine power as a path to personal fulfilment and societal transformation. Her understanding of the world as a connected spiritual cosmos brought her to Cornwall, where she deepened her creative explorations, inspired by the region's ancient landscape, Celtic traditions, and sacred sites."

From Ocula.com Guardian article on Ithell

We talked about:

Some of Ithell's most iconic paintings and where she fits in the story of art

Surrealism and the lack of women

Fascinating developments in automatism and understandings of the subconscious

Colour theory and magic, from the Golden Dawn, anthroposophy and theosophy

Being an outsider...her relationship to occult and artist groups

Sex magic

Artists who don't receive recognition in their lifetimes

In the extended episode:

The Kabbalistic tree of life, The Golden Dawn and their influence on Ithell’s colour theory and palette

Crowley's table of correspondences

Colour mixing

The story of Amy’s Sex Magic contract with the Tate

Extended AND video episodes available at www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

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My guest today is Jen Louden, best-selling author of nine books, and passionate women’s advocate. Since 1992 Jen has been a leading voice on self-care, creative transformation, and helping women own their desires.

With close to a million copies sold in nine languages, Jennifer has appeared or been quoted in hundreds of media platforms, including The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is a former columnist for Whole Living, a Martha Stewart magazine, and her work has been featured in Brené Brown’s books 

Daring Greatly and Dare to Lead.

https://jenniferlouden.com/

We talked about:

Why we need our witches right now

Finally writing a novel all about magic and midlife women

Reinventing yourself

Moving beyond “Pick Me”

Agents and publishers, and how publishing has changed since the ‘90s

The disappointment of the reality of being on Oprah’s couch

Walking away from projects and knowing when to let things go

The Conditions of Enoughness – her groundbreaking concept for developing self trust in yourself as a creative

Creative motherhood and the male privilege of no interruptions

On being ruthless as a creative woman

In the extended episode - available on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce for $3/month+

We deep dive into neurodivergence- discovering her neurodivergence, how it’s impacted her work, her work arounds.

References

Pregnant Woman's Comfort Book

The Woman's Retreat Book

The Woman’s Comfort Book

Why Bother?

The Rainbow Way: cultivating creativity in the midst of motherhood

The Shit No one Tells You About Writing podcast

Get Published with Lucy H. Pearce

Womancraft Publishing

Teach Now!

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My guest today is Leonie Dawson, international best-selling author of the My Brilliant Year workbooks (formerly known as the Goal Getter workbooks) which have been used by over 500,000 people worldwide. A multi-passionate entrepreneur, Leonie has generated over $14 million in revenue while only working 10 hours a week. She is the creator of the Brilliant Biz and Life Academy, she has been blogging for over 20 years and has over 100k blog followers.

Leonie has been recognised for her business acumen by winning Ausmumpreneur’s People’s Choice Business Coach, Global Brand & Businesses Making A Difference Awards..I am guest teaching on her Academy in August - Submissions that Sell: Creating a winning book proposal.

www.leoniedawson.com

We talked about

Her formative experiences of creating and inspiring others to create

Her creating/sharing compulsion

Postnatal depression

Her relationship with the word weird

Being your full colorful self as an integral part of your business...

Our neurodivergence - autism, ADHD and synastheia

Blogging then and now

Being authentic on the internet - the upsides and downsides

Our invisibility cloaks

What colour means to her

How it's less about making magic and more about noticing it

Being a female entrepreneur.

In the extended episode ( just $3/month on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce ) we discuss:

Dealing with haters

Sharing, over sharing and keeping those we love safe

When others question our integrity

300 hugs in a day

Grab us in our gorgeous rainbow coloured glory on the video episode for just $6/ month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

Links

My website www.lucyhpearce.com

My book that Leonie wrote the forewrod to The Rainbow Way: cultivating creativity in the midst of motherhood

My publishing company Womancraft Publishing

Becoming Visible - Breaking Spell of Invisibility - my ecourse on the invisibility cloaks and having the courage to be seen as yourself

The magician Leonie mentions https://youtu.be/SHQKQjBJKd4?si=2-MwE9F9Dqft6t5N

Her new course - Creative Goddess Embodied

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This special Creative Magic episode is a celebration of crows – real and symbolic, wild magic and everyday enchantment to mark the one-year anniversary of  Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods, and the launch of the audiobook. Weaving the words from this spellbinding book, along with stories from the Creative Magic community and extracts from interviews from the first two seasons including Molly Remer, MJ Cullinane and Phyllis Curott. The extended episode runs to 1h 25 and includes:

The extended episode runs to 1h 25 and includes:

·      Exclusive reflections from Molly Remer, Megan Derosiers and Lucy H. Pearce

·      Additional extracts from the brand new Crow Moon audiobook

·      Additional material from MJ Cullinane’s interview.

Available from www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce for $3/month+

Links

Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods is available in audiobook, ebook and paperback wherever you get your books – on Amazon

Special offer 20% off signed copy of Crow Moon plus free Masterclass from Womancraft Publishing (Feb 25-March 5)

Crow Tarot

Walking with Persephone

Witches Wisdom Tarot

Phyllis Curott episode

Molly Remer episode

MJ Cullinane episode

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A celebration of Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ iconic book, Women Who Run With the Wolves 

This episode is a magical weaving of extracts and interviews with women about wolves and the Wild Woman archetype, and the impact this book has had on their lives.

Full episode available for $3/ month at

www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

Mini interview:

Rachel S. Roberts is the author of Lupa. She-Wolf of Rome, Mother of Destiny, as well as Wolf. Embody your Inner Wolf and Pantheon. The Romans. She is also a sacred dance teacher, priestess, and the creatrix of Wolf Woman Rising, a wisdom school where she empowers you to embody wisdom, reclaim your wild and create a life lived on purpose.

Rachel S. Roberts www.wolfwomanrising.com

Women Who Run With the Wolves 

Fairy Tale Medicine

The Flesh & the Fruit

The Witch & the Wildwood: Folk Wisdom, Fairy Tale & Fantastic Lore

The Wild Wool Shepherdess: Weave the Ancient Path, Reignite Your Feminine Fire 

The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed

Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy – A Womancraft Compendium

The Rainbow Way: cultivating creativity in the midst of motherhood

Lupa. She-Wolf of Rome, Mother of Destiny

Wolf. Embody your Inner Wolf

The Mistress of Longing

Reaching for the Moon

Longing Oracle Deck

Womancraft Publishing

Get Published with Lucy H. Pearce – e-course

Extracts from

Danielle Dulsky, episode 9, The Holy Wild

Clare Jasmine Beloved, episode 23, Raw+real+radical

Dr Vanya Leilani episode 21, Creative Transgression

Elizabeth Kneafsey, episode 20 The Wild Wool Shepherdess

Sarah Robinson, episode 14, Let’s Just Run Away and Live in the Woods

Molly Remer, episode 4 Everyday Enchantment

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