I’m Gillian, aka @intrawoven.arts
I have over 17 years of study and practice in tarot, energy healing, esoterica, and yoga. My education consists of a BA and an MA in Art History, as well as a certification in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy and various trainings in somatics, expressive arts and psychotherapy. My artistic work is entwined with my embodiment and devotional practices, and my tarot services are an expression of this interweaving. Each aspect of my work informs and supports the other.
In my work now, I help people navigate their fear around personal expression, living authentically, and making art, so that they may truly enjoy - and cozily settle into - the journey of life.
You can benefit from my work directly through one-on-one sessions. I offer somatic coaching for transformational change and growth, as well as live and pre-recorded tarot readings for spiritual guidance and problem solving.
Mask dancer Margaret Severn, 1940.
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Gillian is an artist based in Toronto, Canada (originally from the Pacific Northwest). Her creative process - which includes weaving, writing, drawing, and performance - is largely informed by her existing spiritual and movement practices. Her work explores themes of devotion and magical transformation through embodiment (presence and attunement) and intuitive expression. She is inspired by harmonies, ecosystems, networks of existence (wild and cultivated, human and other-than-human), interdependence and interrelationship. In creating/performing, she recognises and responds to the twined and netted nature of existence. Gillian takes an intuitive approach to every medium she works with, allowing her body to become a portal, or a location, for the interaction of elements (the universe and the artist, the pen and the paper, the memory of a place and the body that remembers, etc).
“Through my art, I hope to invite the viewer into a state of peaceful presence and spark contemplation of both the inner self and the outer world.” - Gillian Huntley
Gillian's work is generated by a consistent relationship with and education in somatics, ecology, animism, mythology/folklore, performance, and philosophical/spiritual theories of transcendence. Agnes Martin, Lenore Tawney, Helen Frankenthaler and Koji Enokura are major influences for her visual art.
Why work with me?
The self love and creativity I now enjoy have not always been so present in my life… It took years to reclaim my creative spirit - that aspect of me that lives and creates unabashedly and joyfully.
After pushing and pulling for years to fit myself onto a life path that didn’t feel right, I finally realised that no one else was going to validate me the way I needed, or heal the deep wounds that only I could reach.
Exhausted and fed up by a decade of burning out over and over again, feeling confused and like I didn't fit anywhere, I devoted myself to a period of emotional healing and making art. I held within me a burning, life-affirming desire to feel free. I believed I could one day feel able to live my artistic dreams and release the burden of stored trauma which had accumulated as a lot of fear and doubt in myself and in the world. And, beautifully, miraculously, through a process of continually showing up with gentleness and focused intention, I found my way there.
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Doing transformational work of any kind is an act of deep self love and courage. I applaud you for opening up to it and am honoured by your consideration to work with me. My tarot sessions are tailored to your needs and specific life context, and I apply a trauma-informed approach to my coaching sessions.
I hope that by working together you will find liberation through gradual self-acceptance, healing and inspired action.
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