I quickly realised that, with each card, I was actually healing myself in a sense. I’m now so happy that I can hold this deck in my hand and say “here’s what I went through and here’s a physical embodiment of what I learnt”.
My deck.
The Hide Tarot is a project I worked on when I was nineteen, over the summer after my dad died. After working on the project for a few months, I ran a quite successful kickstarter and got the deck professionally produced. It was a transformative experience for me and it's a wonderful feeling having my product reach out and touch hundreds of people now.
The Hide Tarot was designed to be used as a standard deck but also as a series of abstract images and ideas, almost like oracle cards. I decided to name my deck after the bird-watching hides my friends and I liked to go to— small, wooden huts where you can sit and look out at the view from a secluded, hidden place. I want this tarot deck to bring a sense of of stasis, of peace, to those who use it and, so, I think it’s apt to name the cards after a place had the same effect on me.
In terms of actually creating the cards, it was an almost entirely traditional process with some minor exceptions. I sketched and painted, used pencils, pens, inks and watercolours, and, eventually, digitally assembled each card. I also produced a full-length guidebook featuring an introduction to each and every card, some brief thoughts on tarot itself, a few of my favourite spreads and various concept art.
Grief & Hidden Places
I was lucky enough to be interviewed about The Hide Tarot by Beth Maiden of The Little Red Tarot.
