WITTA JENSEN on the cardsaka G.M.W.K.S.J | |||
Georgine Margareta Witta Kiessling Smith Jensen Right: Self-portrait: half me, half picasso (ATC). |
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Left: Skat by Me and My Friends. This limited edition playing card deck from 1990 was a co-operative project consisting of 32 cards made by various artists from different countries. The deck was entirely hand made and coloured. | ||
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Left: Skat Erotique 1987. A limited edition of 100 packs, commercially printed in b&W and hand coloured afterwards. | ||
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Left: Waite Variations I. This was the first in a series of variations on the Waite/Smith tarot deck (1989). The deck is entirely handmade in a limited, signed and numbered edition of 133. | ||
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Left: Waite Variations no. III: TransWaite. A translucent pack based upon the Pamela Colman Smith tarot designs. Limited and numbered edition of 30 packs (1990). 26+2 cards in a hand painted box. Gold edges frame the images. Hidden erotic images can be seen when each card is held up to the light. |

By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
View ArticlesCurator and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.