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I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the world expert in myths, folklore, and occultism in art, Dr. Amy Hale speaking on the great surrealist Ithell Colquhoun!\n\nAn Atlanta based writer, curator and critic, Hale\u2019s interests range from contemporary magical practice to the history of art, culture, women and Cornwall. \n\nShe has helped crack open this side of art history, and that is why I am so excited to be speaking with her today \u2013 and focussing on the artistic polymath, Ithell Colquhoun, who, as well as being the most brilliant painter \u2013 creating scapes of dreamlike worlds, with organic, bodily-like shapes \u2013 was a novelist, poet, essayist, and more. Her output was always concerned spiritual transcendence. \n\nBorn in 1906 in India, before studying at the Slade, Colquhoun became involved with the Surrealists in the 1930s \u2013 making dazzling paintings of sea monsters \u2013 and it was at this moment that her interest in the occult soared. In the 1940s, she relocated from London to Cornwall, and invented a way of working that connected her to the earth, and ancient times. \n\nColquhoun, according to Hale, had a \u201cmagical mind that never stopped\u201d \u2013 and Hale has dedicated her career to writing her noted biography Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully (Strange Attractor) and, more recently, the collection Sex Magic: Diagrams of Love, and is editing a selection of her esoteric essays. So I couldn\u2019t be more delighted to find out more!\n\n--\n\nLINKS: \n\nhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ithell-colquhoun-931\n\nAmy's books: \nhttps://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/ithell-colquhoun-genius-of-the-fern-loved-gulley-amy-hale\nhttps://shop.tate.org.uk/sex-magic-ithell-colquhouns-diagrams-of-love/28593.html\n\nIthell's paintings: \nhttps://artuk.org/discover/artists/colquhoun-ithell-19061988\n\n--\n\nTHIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION:\n\nhttps://www.famm.com/en/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/famm_mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037\n\nFollow us:\nKaty Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel\nSound editing by Nada Smiljanic\nMusic by Ben Wetherfield