The Inspiring Art of Lisa Hunt

If you at all are involved with Tarot, then you’ve certainly come across the art of Lisa Hunt. Lisa is a tarot goddess, pure and simple. Starting with the bestselling Shapeshifter Tarot, she’s illustrated more decks than I can imagine doing even at my most ambitious.

Tarot decks are a lot of work. I sometimes joke that tarot artists are the marathon runners of the illustration world. I mean, a tarot deck requires 78 original paintings—compare that to the typical children’s picture book, which usually requires about 16 paintings. If creating a tarot deck is a marathon, then Lisa has painted the equivalent of a decathlon during her career.

Lisa’s latest deck is the 2006 COVR Interactive Sideline Award-winning Animals Divine Tarot, which she wrote and illustrated; I was asked to write the introduction, which I happily did. She has two new decks underway, one of which is the Fantastical Creatures Tarot. This will be published by US Games Systems later this year.

In addition to her tarot work, Lisa has written and illustrated books, including Celestial Goddesses. In between all of this, she also paints images for gaming cards. In other words, she’s amazingly prolific.

It astonishes me to realize that Lisa Hunt has been a close friend of mine for almost a decade. So I’m fortunate to know her work as well as her lovely self. We’re also working together on a book which, surprisingly, is not tarot-related, though it is mythic in theme. Books are often long-aborning, and this one is no different. I hope to have more information about our project later this year!

To learn more about the inspiring art of Lisa Hunt, visit www.lisahuntart.com. You can also purchase her books, tarot decks and special autographed prints of her work here.

All images in this post © Lisa Hunt. All rights reserved.

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