I’m Gillian, aka @intrawoven.arts
I have over 17 years of study and practice in tarot, and a life-long spiritual and esoteric devotional practice that informs all aspects of my work. 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. I like to think that the many limbs of my study and praxis inform and support the other.
You can benefit from my work, and directly support me, through engaging with my writings and offerings on Substack, my newsletter, my YouTube channel, buying my art, and booking one-on-one sessions.
In terms of my 1:1 offerings, I offer somatics-based coaching for deep transformational change and growth, as well as tarot readings for spiritual guidance and problem solving.
In my work with others, I aim to create spaces of self-connection and safety for the purpose of navigating journeys of embodied healing and expression.
bio
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 healing and making art. I held within me a burning, life-affirming desire to feel free. I yearned to live out my artistic dreams and let go of the burden of personal and ancestral trauma that had accumulated within me as a knotted mess of fear and doubt.
For so long, I was avoiding fully living, not realising just how afraid I was of myself and of the world. But beautifully, miraculously, through a process of continually showing up with gentleness and focused intention, I found my way to true love - with self and with the world - and to creative freedom. I am so deeply grateful to myself for being devoted to the calling of my soul, even when I didn’t understand where it would lead, and to the vision I held within my mind’s eye of a good, happy, healthy life.
I know what it is like feel lost and unsure how to show up in the world, even as a passionate love for life burns in my heart
I know what it’s like to carry a desire for meaning and purpose - to feel the pull from some unseen, but certainly perceived, future.
I know what it’s like to have creative talents or ideas and be absolutely terrified and embarrassed to go public with them or to even call myself an artist. I know what it’s like to learn to take up space.
I know what it’s like to develop real self love over time, and to slowly but surely stretch and soften and expand into a version of myself that I am proud of.
I know what it’s like to suffer from CPTSD; I know what it feels like to not know how to exist in this world as I am…and then to find self-acceptance.
If you feel like any of this is similar to your own experience, and you are looking for the right container to move into deeper self-exploration, healing or creative clarity, my safe, trauma-informed coaching space might be the one for you :)
Find out more about my approach to coaching at the button below, and feel free to reach out with any questions in the form provided.
Thank you for being here, and may blessings rain upon your path x
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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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