I'm Sara Jane, and I have been art journaling and working with everyday magic for over 20 years. ​I live in Nottinghamshire, UK with my husband and two cats, Noel and Frank. We have two grown up children and two grandkids. I am an Aquarian Sun, Leo Moon and Pisces rising. I started Sara Jane Art Magic after a life changing experience made me want to share how I heal myself through creativity and magic combined.

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My Art Witch Story so far.....
I’ve always been an artist.

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I’m happiest when I’m making stuff. As a child I drew paper friends with wardrobes of clothes and things to play with. I made stories around these paper characters and shared them with my human friends.

As a teenager, I used art and drawing to focus on when I was going through those tough hormonally challenging years. It was my release valve, a way to relax and a place to be (as confusing as that is at that point!)

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As a mother, I made toys and clothes and cared for my family in my own unique way, always with a notebook by my side. As my children grew I had more time to read and learn new things, and I quickly came to realise that I wanted to know more about connecting to natural cycles, using divination as a tool for self-care and also how colour played such an important role in my life.

I dipped into a colour therapy course, read books on modern witchcraft and bought myself a tarot deck.

 

It opened up something that felt so right for me.

 

I noticed synchronicity at play and understood more that the feelings that came up when I created was a connection to something bigger than me, a sort of "plugging in" that made my work feel more powerful and with more purpose. This made my art feel like a piece of me which cannot be separated. It would be like ripping out my soul.

 

As I’ve grown older, my art magic grew, and I slowly began to share my work. I now have this real urge to show others how wonderful this practice is and how it can help them too.

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I recently suffered probably the worst thing that has ever happened to me. Now thankfully it’s not my health or my loved ones, but the devastation and loss of trust and faith in the systems that govern us has bought severe anxiety, stress, mental health issues and financial restrictions.

I don’t need to go on about it and I don’t want to as I’m trying to move on, but the actions of one woman in a position of authority led to me and my husband losing everything we have worked hard for, for the last 40 years. Luckily we are relatively healthy and he was able to go back to work (as he was just about to retire!) and we had just enough funds available to rent a house.

 

We’ve been dealing with the legal battle preparations in the hope that the system will deliver us justice. These things take months and months and months so we have had to change our lives and reimagine the future that we thought we had all mapped out. In between sorting out this crap, I decided I wanted to show others in someway, teach the way of the Art Witch. I have found my art magic to be a wonderful coping mechanism during these stressful times. I also had to work within personal tight budget constraints at the same time as a global cost of living crisis.

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All this background leads me to you .....

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Do you suffer from anxiety, stress, overthinking, and a lack of confidence? 

 

Do you sit in an endless puddle of negative thoughts and feelings, looking after everyone else’s emotions and then finding you don’t have any time left to fill your own well? 

 

I’ve been there many times, and each time I go back to my toolbox, get out my books, pens and paint, tarot cards, runes, and oracles and dig into some art magic.

 

 WHAT IS ART MAGIC?

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To me, it’s the way I use books, images, colour, words and intent to create pages that help me process my feelings, find solutions to problems, and give myself more confidence and personal strength.

 

It's like making spells for the soul.

 

It’s intuitive, work, not a rigid framework of rules and rituals.

 

It’s the way a colour is chosen.

 

​An image is cut out and pasted onto the page. ​

 

The type of marks and symbols we create with our brushes and pens.​

 

The words of affirmations we use. 

 

The way we lay the foundations on the page.  

 

It’s like a dance that we do with our hands on paper to express how we feel, how we would like to feel and how we can make positive steps towards healing ourselves.

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What do I create?

I make books and magazines into grimoire, a colourful Art Witch Planner, Paper dolls, ephemera and stickers, oracles and generally have magical fun that I share as tutorials and printables on Patreon and You Tube. I use moon guidance, tarot and runes, spirit animals, elemental and seasonal energies to support my own personal growth and inspire other Art Witches who are on the same path.

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JOIN me for a magical adventure 

You can find out more about my Patreon here

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