Ayshe-Mira Yashin
Email: ayshemira@gmail.com
Instagram: @ayshemira
Etsy: @theillustrationwitch
Ayshe-Mira Yashin (b.2003) is an illustrator and visual artist based in London. Rooted in matriarchal storytelling, her practice conjures goddess archetypes from her ancestral regions, taking form in intricate linework drawings, narrative analogue prints and hand-bound books, consistently rendered in earthy-brown tones. An ongoing thread of her practice involves engaging with militarised ecologies through land-based rituals, working with the earth’s matter to create experimental works which culminate in illustrative contributions to the Earth-Body Art genre pioneered by Ana Mendieta.
Recent exhibitions include They Call Me Witch at The Crypt Gallery (London, 2025), Burned House Horizon at Mimosa House, (London, 2025) and Manifestations: Views of the Otherworldly in Painting and Drawing at NiMac (Nicosia, 2024). She has illustrated, curated and edited publications in collaboration with writers, researchers and organisers, featured in publication fairs including Offprint at Tate Modern with the West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library (London, 2025) and the 10th Anniversary Grrrl Zine Fair at The Old Waterworks (Southend-on-Sea, 2025).
Sharing earth-bound, healing visual art processes and storytelling tools through workshop facilitation is central to her practice; she has done so for communities including The Outside Project (2025), Open Community Press (2025) and Xenia (2022). She regularly provides individual and collective readings with her queer ecofeminist tarot deck, The Earth Mother Magic Tarot, at events across London including Tribe Incorporated (2025), Talking Textures (2024) and Lunarr Playgroundz (2023).
You can find out more about her tarot practice or book a reading from her with the deck she herself designed here.
CV
10th Anniversary Grrrl Zine Fair, The Old Waterworks, Southend-on-Sea, September 2025
This Home Is My Own by Clitbait, Outsiders Gallery Dalston, London, July 2025
Burned House Horizon, Mimosa House, London, January - February 2025
Manifestations: Views of the Otherworldy in Painting & Drawing, NiMac, Nicosia, March - July 2024
Do You Buy This?, Ugly Duck, London, August 2023
Love & Strength - Through Community, CSM Window Galleries, London, February 2023
The A to Zine Show, Queercircle, London, January 2023
The Directory, Koop Projects, Brighton, January 2023
Tongue in Trees: Ecocriticism and Art by the Courtauldian, photobookcafe, London, December 2022
They/Them/Their: Naturally Not Binary, IMT Gallery, London, August 2022
Xhibit, The Koppel Project, London, June 2022
The Birdbox Gallery, Cambridge, August 2022
Protest, Fronteer Art Gallery, Sheffield, September 2021
Burned House Horizon Artist Residency, Bidston Observatory and Artistic Research Centre, October 2024
NFTS BFI Film Academy Craft Skills Residential, Beaconsfield Studios, September 2021
NFTS BFI Film Academy Screenwriting Residential, Beaconsfield Studios, December 2019
Interview for Parathyro Culture Supplement - Parathyro, March 2025
Featured tarot artist in Witchology Magazine: The Balance Issue - Witchology, March 2023
Featured in the Queer and Feminist Zine Library at Tate St Ives, May - October 2022
Featured in Ten Queer Feminist Zines to Watch Out For at Grrrl Zine Fair - Dazed, March 2022
Contribution to Azl Edition 2: Currents (forthcoming 2026)
Contribution to Radical Jewish Calendar 5786, September 2025
Contribution to Dyke House Press: Dyke Rage, December 2024
Contribution to Third Shelf Journal, Issue 2: Fluids, September 2024
Contribution to Qafiyah Review, Issue 2: Sumac, March 2024
Contribution to Myth & Lore Zine: Issue 5, October 2023
Contribution to Occult Studies Volume 2: Revolution, January 2022
Açık Büfe, co-facilitator, 8 Vine Yard - March 2025
Queer Goddexes & Speculative Scripts, co-facilitator, Mimosa House, January - February 2025
Earth Mother Magic Tarot Ritual-Workshop, co-facilitator, Ugly Duck, August 2023
Grrrl Zine Fair, facilitator, The Feminist Library, June 2022
Intro to Bookbinding, Artist Books and Zines, independent facilitator for Long Con Mag, March 2022
Grrrl Zine Fair, facilitator, Newington Green Meeting House, March 2022
Grrrl Zine Fair, assistant facilitator, Anglia Ruskin Chelmsford, September 2021
Hecate - tarot reading at Tribe Incorporated, Twilight Contemporary, May 2025
The Shadow Realm - tarot reading for Creative Catalyst Agency, September 2024
Talking Textures - tarot reading at Ugly Duck, April 2024
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Distinction, Camberwell College of Arts, 2021 - 2022
Portfolio
Tarot Readings
For over five years I have been providing tarot readings with my own handmade illustrated tarot decks. As an illustrator working with my own creations I have a heightened intuitive connection to the cards, and use my practice as a reader to embody the healing purpose of the Earth Mother Magic Tarot, by transferring the guidance of the cards to those who resonate.
The deck was created especially for women, queer people and those who identify with femininity, but others who feel called towards the cards and approach them with respect are also welcome to engage. The primary purpose of the deck is to be used in group readings by the communities it was intended for, to collectively identify, discuss and reflect on our experiences as women and queer people, using visual narratives and matriarchal spiritual iconography/semiotics to tap into the intuition we all hold within. It can be accessed by any one of us who holds that intuition, regardless of whether or not the guidebook is used.
As an illustrator, the way I read the cards is highly visual, like exploring an image and its meaning, dwelling slowly on each symbol. As a feminist, I read the personal as political, the individual and day-to-day life experiences of the recepients of my readings as entwined and embedded within broader social and political structures; we will also have those discussions during your readings, I won’t provide you with an escape. As a tarot reader, I can offer you insight into the past, present, and future; it won’t always be linear, but instead narrated through a queer temporality, and it will tell the story in framed images; always with edges we can’t see beyond.
As a witch, I don’t claim spiritual authority over you or your life; I will share my intuition with you, and my knowledge of my own cards as an artist/designer, but the authority of knowing is with all of us. At points in the reading, I may invite you to share what you yourself see in the cards; we are equals and the reader/recepient binary isn’t a hierarchy of knowing.
You can ask the tarot questions about any theme of your choice, but here are some of mine: navigating secrecy, unveiling abuses, reclaiming perception, connecting to ancestral/embodied knowledge, increasing personal awareness/responsibility, navigating cycles/seasons, connecting to alternative epistemologies, resisting assimilation, taking agency, enacting transformative queer love, recovering rootedness to the earth, dwelling in invisibile spaces, increasing communal relations, unleashing desire without shame, reducing consumerism/materialism, embracing fluidity/constant change, redistributing energy/resources, challenging internalised scripts/narratives, finding emotional courage... these are some ideas that can be applied to specific life events or circumstances you wish to delve into through tarot, but you can also use the more common “tarot themes” as a starting point for finding a question: love, sex, family, friendships, career, finances, spirituality... I can also help you formulate your question if you so wish.
Here are my current rates - all sliding-scale and subject to change.
Written readings
- Single-card - £10-15
- Dual-card - £15-20
- Three-card spread - £25-30
Voice memo readings
- Single-card - £10-15
- Dual-card - £15-20
- Three-card spread - £25-30
Video-call readings
- Three-card spread - £40-45
- Seven-card spread - £55-60
- Thirteen-card spread - £70-75
- 45-min unlimited readings - £50-55
- 60-min unlimited readings - £65-70
- 75-min unlimited readings - £80-85
I am also open for bookings for events in and around London, and especially enthusiastic to read at feminist or queer-centred events to ensure my deck reaches those it was created for (without relying on individual monetary purchases of the deck alone). I am very happy to offer individual readings for the duration of an event, and/or to host group readings, where I facilitate collective readings in a small circle. These readings allow for each participant to pull at least one card of their own and receive a reading, not only from me but with collectivised intuition, as these sessions also act like a workshop where all participants can learn and ask questions about tarot reading. Alternatively, these sessions can be used to ask collective questions, and together discuss and reflect on joint issues/struggles through the tarot.
For all bookings and enquiries, please contact me via email: ayshemira@gmail.com.