About Joanna Powell Colbert

Joanna Powell Colbert is an artist and writer known internationally for her Goddess portraits and mythic art. Her artwork and writing appears regularly in the magazines SageWoman and PanGaia as well as many other alternative publications.

In 1992 she helped revive The Beltane Papers: A Journal of Women’s Mysteries, and served as its Managing Editor for four years, co-creating the magazine with Helen Farias, Waverly Fitzgerald and a wildly creative collective of women. Her current projects include a web design business, commissioned portraits and the creation of A Gaian Tarot.

Joanna has taught classes on the Goddess, Tarot and earth-centered spirituality in the Northwest since 1991.

Anne Newkirk Niven, publisher of SageWoman and PanGaia, says:

“For over a decade, when the Goddess community looked for artwork to grace their events and publications, the work of Joanna Powell Colbert has stood head-and-shoulders above the crowd. More recently, Joanna has expanded the scope of her contribution to the community by sharing her gifts as a talented writer and ritualist as well as in the visual arts. One of the true pioneers and leaders of the Goddess movement, Joanna writes with a warm, passionate voice and exhibits a striking and brilliant intellect as well.”

She lives on a small island in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Pagan musician Craig Olson. They live in a straw bale house they built themselves, which they call Heron House.