Robert M. Place is an internationally known visionary artist whose award-winning works in painting, sculpture, and jewelry have been displayed in galleries and museums throughout the world. He is best known as the designer, illustrator, and coauthor of the original Alchemical Tarot, published by HarperCollins in 1995.
Robert is also the designer, illustrator, and author of The Alchemical Tarot Renewed, The Tarot of the Saints, The Angels Tarot, The Raziel Tarot, The Vampire Tarot, The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery, and numerous other oracle decks, including The Buddha Tarot, which received international acclaim for its amalgamation of Eastern and Western mysticism.
Robert is the author of The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, which Booklist has said, “may be the best book ever written on that deck of cards decorated with mysterious images called the tarot,” and Astrology and Divination, among others. Robert is the curator of The Fool’s Journey and the author of the catalog for an exhibition of Tarot art that originated at the LA Craft and Folk-Art Museum.
His newest works are a Lenormand oracle deck, The Burning Serpent Oracle, and The Raziel Tarot: The Secret Teachings of Adam and Eve. Robert has lectured and conducted workshops on mysticism and the tarot throughout the United States and on five continents.