12: Rima Staines - The Deeper You Go The Wider The World Opens To You

Rima Staines is an artist whose work straddles myth, magical realism and the folk arts. Her visual world is an umber and madder-infused chapel of misfits and magicians, story-rich and alchemical. Her paintings, which feel both ancient and familiar at once, have been exhibited and published internationally. In 2018 she was a finalist in the 'Best Artist' category of the World Fantasy awards.

Rima has a long-held fascination with the idea of the liminal - that which lies at the edge of culture and society as well as the literal boundaries between one place and another, both metaphorical and real - and with the power of art that comes from that place. Her work is a kind of “Iconography of the Otherworld”. She lives in the south of England.

Rima's Links: 

www.rimastaines.com

www.patreon.com/rimastaines

Instagram: @tilsamka

Facebook: facebook.com/rima.staines

We talked about

• Rima’s writing - Art and the Landscape of Belonging – join her Patreon to read
• The changes required at midlife
• Creativity and daily life a balance between desire and necessity
• The beauty of particular difference
• Her drive and need for authenticity
• The Otherworld and how we can access it
• Neurodiversity – Epilepsy, Downs Syndrome and autism.
• Motherhood and creativity
• Neurology and creative magic
• Her visual art which she describes as “Art in a minor key”
• Synaesthesia

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