Hello, I'm Anne Keating, the creator of Wild Voices.
I was born in Africa and I’ve always felt a deep affinity for the Animals here. I decided to create a book and card set that allows you to draw on the essential quality that characterizes each Animal.
I spent many years connecting with these Animals and getting in touch with this energy. I realised I was hearing a message - that while tapping into the Animal’s wisdom I was able to tap into my own. So basically, these cards are allowing us to draw on the power of the Animals, to empower ourselves. And because we know these cards are a powerful tool, we are eager to share them with you.
With Wild Voices you will be working with the raw, vigorous energy, of animals like Elephant, the great matriarch of Africa; innocent Bush Baby with her large night-eyes; Hyena, Rhinoceros, Honey Badger and many more.
If you identify with this, then please support our work by visiting our Kickstarter fund raising campaign and making a financial pledge; we have a powerful book and a beautiful set of cards just waiting to be printed – please help us make this happen. Thank you!
Hi there! My name is Diane Holmes or Mama ka Grace as I'm known in the little village where I live in South Africa. I was born in Zambia and enjoyed many family trips into the dense bush of what was then Northern Rhodesia. This is why, I feel, when Annie spoke to me about her project of tuning into the African animals for their messages I easily connected with her work and was thrilled to become the artist and designer for Wild Voices.
A bit about the artwork process I started off creating the artwork with traditional ink and paint on paper and then switch over to working on my computer using a free, open source program called the GIMP which worked very nicely, but It meant getting used to using the computer mouse as a brush and the monitor as my canvass. In closing I've learnt a lot about our African continent and its beguiling animals while working on Wild Voices. I found it interesting that the qualities of the animals I was illustrating would be felt in my life in a very real way.
So, to be sure, you really DO invoke Africa when you work with this book and card set!