Meinrad Craighead (1936–2019) was an artist, scholar, and visionary, influential in the field of woman-centered religious art. Her work explores the human relationship to the Divine, particularly feminine images of God, sacred animals, and landscapes. She worked in a variety of mediums, including block prints, gesso relief prints, charcoal, painting, drawing and watercolor.
I can't remember how I came across Craighead's work. But her book, The Mother's Songs, is a collection of some of her paintings and writings about the Divine Mother. I am still inspired by this quote:
"I draw and paint from my own myth of personal origin. Each painting I make begins from some deep source where my mother and grandmother, and all my fore-mothers still live; it is as if the line moving from pen or brush coils back to the original matrix. Sometimes I feel like a cauldron of ripening images where memories turn into faces and emerge from my vessel. So my creative life, making out of myself, is itself an image of God the Mother and her unbroken story of emergence in our lives."