Josephine Close was born in the woods of New Hampshire and now lives and works in a haunted cottage in Los Angeles. “Every painting is a talisman, a visual poem, a spell. I am the channel, the medium, the spirit,” she writes. As a self taught mixed-media painter whose primary focus is works on paper, she loves the natural world, poetry, magic, myths, and fairy tales.
Close's work was recently published in Taschen's book Witchcraft in 2021, and has also appeared in numerous in-print and online journals and entities such as Create Magazine, Hecate Journal, Jealous Curator, Candyfloss Magazine, and The Blue Review. She has exhibited at venues including the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), The Brea Gallery, The Philosophical Research Society, and Jerry Weems Gallery, all in California, and Faran Gallery (NY) and The Journal Project (Brooklyn).