BIO
Rebecca Schoenecker lives in Asheville, NC, and is a full-time tarot reader and artist who works with metaphysical and occult themes.
Her current art practice explores the place where the material and ethereal meet. The popular magical tenet “as above, so below” is a guiding theme in her work. She believes that humans are a galaxy of cells and psyches, mirroring the infinite beauty and sometimes unnerving energy of a universe with no edge.
Rebecca has used a variety of media over the years, but at present works with gouache and water-soluble colored pencils on paper. From 2010–2023, she worked in an illustrative style, publishing tarot decks and authoring esoteric books to bring arcane knowledge into wider view.
She has been reading tarot since 2011 and has been active as an artist since her teenage years in the 90’s. From a young age, she knew her life’s work was to create images and talk about their meanings, which found a great marriage in tarot.
Rebecca has both a Bachelor’s and a Master of Fine Arts Degree. She attended the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design for her undergraduate degree, graduating in 2002. In 2008, she completed her graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Rebecca has been exhibiting and working with the arts for thirty years. Notable achievements include a piece in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (MCA)’s book-arts collection. She also collaborated with the MCA to read tarot at esoterically themed art exhibitions. Additionally, two of her tarot decks have been acquired by MIT’s (Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston) special library collection.
Currently, Rebecca is creating and exhibiting art in Asheville and continuing her work as a tarot reader, teacher, and occultist.
Her current creative focus is on painting celestial art that explores how the human experience is mirrored by space.
After viewing NASA’s James Webb Telescope’s photographs, images began appearing in her mind’s eye, as if pre-formed. She feels that space is asking to be seen in a new way, and for humanity to see itself in it.