The Journey: Mediumship & Magic with Jennifer Green
Welcome to part 5 of our series on Creative Mediumship, The Journey: Mediumship & Magic with Jennifer Green. In these conversations, we’re exploring the intersections of creativity, consciousness, trance, magick, and imagination. If you’re new to the Literary Coven, start at the beginning with Creative Mediumship: Spells for Spring, then head over to The Threshold: A Writing Ritual from Kate Belew, before checking out Imagination is the Medium: A Psychic Experiment for the Literary Coven and The Cloak Within: A Writing Ritual from Sarah Justice. If you’re new to the halls of Pointy Hat Press, join the Literary Coven for a journey into and through the landscape of the unseen.
Meditation illustration from Jennifer Green
Jennifer Green joined us for the latest episode of the Pointy Hat Press podcast! Jennifer is an artist and spiritual practitioner, fully submerged and committed to a life well-lived. A former midwife, she has spent over thirty years dedicated to creative arts, healing, and her ever-evolving magical practice. She is a printmaker, illustrator, maker, clairvoyant, occasionally funny, and a lover of birds. Jennifer lives in Cornwall, where she offers spiritually informed art and other creations via her shop The Quickening Tree.
In this conversation, Jennifer shares insight into her journey as a magical practitioner and explains how her creative process intersects with ritual work. She discusses making medicine dolls, the power of humor in spirit communication, and what it was like growing up in a ‘weird-tolerant’ family.
To learn more about Jennifer, follow her on Instagram @jennifer_green_artist, listen to her episode here, and read on for a few bonus questions that didn’t make it into the episode. Check out some of Jennifer’s artwork below, including one of the medicine dolls she spoke about in the episode.
Jennifer’s journey illustration, Bear of the West
Caitlyn: Can you start by telling us a bit about yourself, where you’re from, where you’re at, what you’re working on, and what is inspiring you right now?
Hi, my name is Jennifer Green, friends call me Jenn. I am originally from Hull, in East Yorkshire, and for more than 25 years (give or take the odd segue) have lived in Cornwall, South West of the UK. I am close to a vast stretch of water, a deep natural harbour with water inlets and rivers. I live close to woodland. Where these two environments meet is my happy place; salt water, with seals snorting, native trees, lots of flowering gorse, deer rustling, and owls hooting.
I take a lot of inspiration from nature, especially plants, and currently I am obsessed with rockpools. These miniature worlds are fascinating! I have always loved exploring edges, they are where I find my joy. I walk my dog Dora, and we both swim. Seals have joined our walks often and swim beside us, watching us curiously as we go looking for treasure: strawberry anemones, cushion starfish, shells. I haven't found a seahorse yet, but they're on my wish list for this year.
I seem to have a lot of projects started and not quite complete at the moment. I'm conscious that I am in a ‘play and explore’ stage at the moment. I have some lino prints on the go, some owl feathers on my desk, a knitted jumper I have started twice now and frogged, and a lot of gemstones dotted around. I found my first cowries this year. As I have just moved, there is still a LOT to organise, but I am finding applied arts like quilting and sewing are bleeding into my print work and vice versa. So we’ll have to wait and see what develops.
Portrait of Jennifer Green by Sharon Ashton, a photographer specialising in colloidal print, magical & historical processes.
