Jacqueline Pitman

Australia based artist Jaqueline Pitman lived in Los Angeles for a number of years where her dynamic art earned her an enthusiastic following in Hollywood. Her life in LA was a contrast to her early life in Australia, where she had grown up close to nature, reflecting on Aboriginal Culture and its contrast to the modern world.

After several years in Hollywood, Pitman moved back to Australia and then spent seven years in Dharamshala, India, home of the Dalai Lama in exile, studying with master Tibetan painters. 

In such works as Alice and the Lamas, Pitman connects popular culture and mythology with reflections on spiritual teachings.

While in Dharamshala, Pitman created a complex Dharma Card series, based on Tibetan Buddhism, reflecting on the meaning of the various cards (Auspiciousness; Attachment; Anger; etc.) The small edition deck, and the book which accompanied it, blessed by her Tibetan masters, and never intended for the market, have been treasured by spiritual aspirants and practitioners of Tarot card reading worldwide.