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Biography

Lisa Hunt is an American watercolor artist

Artist

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and writer

Writer

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. Hunt has worked on many tarot decks including Shapeshifter Tarot, Celtic Dragon Tarot, Chesley Award nominated Fantastical Creatures Tarot and the COVR award winning solo project Animals Divine Tarot. Her bestselling tarot deck, Celtic Dragon Tarot, has been translated into many languages around the world. She is also the writer/illustrator of the hardcover art/meditation book Celestial Goddesses, showcasing her interest in goddess mythology. Hunt earned a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies with an emphasis on Jungian psychology/art and drawing from the Union Institute in 2004.

Hunt worked as an art teacher at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and as a collectible card game

Collectible card game

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artist and conceptual designer. Hunt now devotes her time to raising her family and working in her studio in south Florida

Florida

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. Hunt is married to art director/designer/photographer Kort Kramer and has two children.

Hunt is a student of Submission Taekwondo

Taekwondo

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at the Boca Academy of Martial Arts and received her Black Belt on December 13, 2008.

Tarot decks by Hunt

Shapeshifter Tarot, (1998) Llewellyn Publications ISBN 1567183891
The Celtic Dragon Tarot, (1999) Llewellyn Publications ISBN 1567181821
Animals Divine Tarot, (2004) Llewellyn Publications ISBN 0738703214
The Fantastical Creatures Tarot, (2007) U.S. Games Systems ISBN 1572815418
The Fairy Tale Tarot, (2009) Llewellyn Publications *to be published*

Books by Hunt

One is a Mouse, (1995) Simon & Schuster ISBN 0027457818
Celestial Goddesses, (2001) Llewellyn Publications ISBN 0738701181

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