Nature's Whispers

Josephine Wall's painting is instantly known wherever fantasy art hangs: swirling, maximalist, figures dissolving into blossom and cloud, and Nature's Whispers pairs fifty of her canvases with Angela Hartfield's gentle guidance text, the oracle as gallery of Wall's nature-goddess sublime. Wall's audience predates and exceeds the deck; for her collectors the cards are miniature prints with messages attached, which is the art-oracle format working exactly as the Boulet Goddess cards established. Hartfield's text keeps the register warm and unchallenging, guidance as invitation, letting the paintings carry the transporting work they were made for. Fifty cards give Wall's abundance room. It suits Wall's considerable following first, nature-oracle readers who choose by beauty, gift-buyers with a fantasy-art recipient in mind, and art-card collectors adding the Wall wing. Those who want their nature oracles botanical and specific have the linocut-and-field-guide shelf; Wall's nature was always the dream of it, gloriously.