Voyage of the Acolyte
© 1975

Watercolour 35 x 45 cm
Front album cover and winner of Album Cover of Year in 1976.
Exhibited at the Thumb Gallery, London, in 1979.

Through bone and fire the sightless priestess foretells the future. Her eyes are denied the usual sight, but she represents events foretold: precognition, premonition and the road of the tarot are her stock in trade. The hands of this gifted seeress, and feminine intuition, allow the drawbridge of consciousness to be lifted for her, immediately becoming an open door. It is a Chinese watercolour in her background which tells of past lives ... the tower about to be struck down ... the balloons of colour that must be snatched and fully grasped in order to move forward, representing the artist herself.