Nottingham Pagan Book Club reads The Living Stones by Ithell Colquhoun
14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG1 2DH
Five Leaves hosts the Nottingham Pagan Book Club, a reading group for those interested in Pagan literature, both modern and classical. The group is open to anyone who would like to discuss books from a pagan perspective, be they long-time pagans or just curious about exploring pagan spirituality.
Ithell Colquhoun was a mid 20th century artist, writer and occultist. Her art was deeply influenced by her occult studies and her relationship with the land. Although this book is not a pagan or occult text per se, it gives a window into how a deep relationship to the land and the folk traditions of a place can speak to a magically minded individual. We will use the book to frame a conversation about how our own special places inform and guide our magical practice or pagan spirituality.
The book is available from Five Leaves Bookshop for 15% off but feel free to get it elsewhere (including the library) if you’d prefer. To access the discount, email your order to bookshop@fiveleaves.co.uk or come by the shop.
More about the book, from the publisher:
Painter Ithell Colquhoun arrives in Cornwall in the late 1940s, searching for a studio and a refuge from bombed-out London. So begins a profound lifelong relationship with Britain’s westernmost county, a land surrounded by sea and steeped in myth, where the ancient Celtic past reaches into the present.
Sacred and beautiful, wild and weird, Colquhoun’s Cornwall is a living landscape, where every tree, standing stone and holy well is a palimpsest of folklore – and a place where everyday reality speaks to the world beyond.
Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) was born in British India and brought up in the United Kingdom. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and started exhibiting her paintings in the 1930s, gaining some renown as one of the few women associated with British Surrealism. She began visiting Cornwall during the Second World War, and eventually moved there, continuing to write, paint, and pursue the study of the occult until her death
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