A Norwegian Seattle native, An-Magrith "Magi" Erlandsen grew up on the edge of a dark forest in the Pacific Northwest. Close to nature, and close to the source she has pursued her vision and expression in the arts her whole life. She eventually earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts in 1998, and an Associates degree in Visual Communications from the Art Institute of Seattle in 1993.

An-Magrith is available for commissioned art, if the project interests her. She obviously enjoys painting nontraditional portraits of people, animals, and landscapes. Secondary she will consider logos, illustrative work, and murals. Once she painted the ceiling and walls into a mini universe at "Galaxy Casino" in Everett, WA, and has done other  mural work in the Seattle area for public and private clients.

An-Magrith's own personal work embodies the essence of the Pacific Northwest's dark mysticism mixed with some Viking Valkyrie blood.  An-Magrith enjoys and has been a part of numerous artistic collaborations with other artists; dancers, painters, photographers, writers and musicians. She is also an independent art teacher, and teaches "Fine Art Drawing & Painting" to children and adults.

A professional Tarot reader, she reads at Eco-elements in downtown Seattle, and reads at local events on occassion. She is also co-manager of the Surrealist Seattle Club "Surattle". An-Magrith has traveled extensively in her lifetime; Indonesia; Irian Jaya, Java, Bali, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Norway, Ireland, England, Germany, the Carribean and other countries and many states of the U.S.. She brings back with her valuable spiritual lessons and experiences from these different lands, and plants seeds of them in her paintings. The paintings are stories in themselves, reflective yet hold their own.

An-Magrith is also a seasoned performance artist/dancer, who has performed for years with Delilah's "Visionary Dancers" and is now a casual part of Delilah's "Neighborhood Temple Priestesses" but is now mostly a soloist.  She performed for three years with the Experimental Bellydance Theatre troupe, "Hands of Kali" (performing up to she was 6 months pregnant!), where "Tarot of the Pomegranate" was used in performances for Belly Tarot.  She appears in the DVD documentary "Crazed:The Bellydance" and  also she is presented in the famous ATS bellydance book "The Tribal Bible" by Kajira Djoumahna. Kajira had to invent a new category for "Magi" to include her in the book because her style is so unique!

An-Magrith first began sketches of Tarot of the Pomegranate in 1998, and has kept a written and pictorial account of this incredible journey of research, memory, imagination and synchronistic events that have occurred as a result ever since. The journey of the artist and her art is worthy to be published as a book in itself. And it will!

She began selling a signed limited edition of her "Tarot deck in progress" in 2005 to help support the on-going creation of her work, and to share the journey with people all over the world. This deck is highly collectible as it will be the only one of its kind before going to a publisher.

An-Magrith has had numerous shows throughout the Seattle area over the years with the original oil paintings, both group and independent. The Tarot paintings have also been used as background for Theatrical performances, Dance and Ritual, and have been published in several published works and writings. Her work was presented regularly at "Red Stripe Art Studios" during Pioneer Square's First Thursday Artwalk in Seattle for several years. Her paintings were also used as a background for Spiritus, a Metaphysical Theatre  event at the Jewelbox Theatre in Seattle from 2005-2008. Then, on the magical midsommer's eve of the Summer Solstice in 2008, An-Magrith became a mother for the first time to a beautiful daughter, Anastassia Magritt, fathered by the  Russian Surrealist, Poul Costinsky.

An-Magrith has been selling prints of her work at the renown local Gargoyles Statuary in Seattle's U-District since 2001. In the summer of 2007 An-Magrith and two of her paintings were on the cover of "Tarotisten", an international Tarot magazine, with an exclusive in-depth interview. The Fusion rock band "Somewhere Beyond Echoes" utilizes her visionary paintings as inspiration for their music, and part of their web site is dedicated to her art. An-Magrith Erlandsen was interviewed about her paintings in her art studio for the show "Girl on a Mission" and appeared on scantv, on channel 77, and streaming live on-line in November 2009. Her Tarot paintings are displayed on several web sites including Aeclectic Tarot, Alchemy Website and Scarlet Foundry Tarot which uses her Tarot paintings for their interpretations.

Join her on the journey of Tarot of the Pomegranate and explore this website at your own leisure. Be assured, a Tarot reading from An-Magrith, or a work of her Art is a powerful connection to the other side. If you have any questions feel free to contact her. Above all, enjoy the magic and mystery of her Art!