Welcome to Appreciation Tarot School of Painting & Dreaming

Transform Tarot symbolism into a living creative practice that reconnects you with your imagination, your dreams, your vitality, and your unique place within the human story.

It is a guided journey where PAINTING becomes a tool for building a more magical version of yourself!

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This is not about predicting the future

It is about discovering who you are becoming. Through Tarot archetypes, dreams, and painting, you learn to recognize the deeper story unfolding within you.
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Meet Your Guide

Darya Tsaptsyna

Learn from a professional illustrator and symbolic artist

30+ years as a professional artist and illustrator • Symbolic painter • Creator of Tarot Magical Painting School

• Fiction and non-fiction illustration 

published in Italy and USA

• Portraiture 

oil and watercolor artwork in private collections

  • Symbolic painting

Oil and Watercolor

Exhibitions, publications, commissions, and hundreds of happy students

+30 years of work

My Journey

My journey began with a traditional art education at the Academy of Arts, followed by years of exploration in private artistic studios in Italy. As a professional illustrator, my work has been published internationally, and my paintings are part of private collections.
I deeply value this artistic path. It taught me discipline, observation, technique, and the power of visual storytelling. Yet beyond technique and recognition, I felt a deeper calling: to understand images not only as something we create, but as something that can reveal, transform, and connect us with our inner world.

My studies have expanded into Tarot, Tibetan mandalas, yoga, meditation, the Awakening of the Illuminated Heart teachings, and the work of Marie-Louise von Franz on fairy tales and Jungian psychology. Together, these influences shaped a unique approach that blends watercolor painting, symbolic exploration, and personal transformation. I believe art is more than a creative skill. It is a bridge between the conscious and unconscious mind, between the individual and the larger story of humanity.

My discovery of Tarot opened a new dimension of creativity. I began to explore symbols, archetypes, dreams, and the hidden language of images. Through watercolor and intuitive painting, I learned to follow a different kind of guidance—one that comes from listening inward and allowing authentic expression to emerge.
Appreciation Tarot School was born from this journey: a space where art becomes a conversation with the deeper self, and where every image can become a doorway into transformation.
Images change you

Why handmade images are essential

They connect you to your inner truth

When your hand moves, your mind quiets and your inner voice becomes clear

They build real clarity

Clarity doesn't come from rushing. It comes from dialogue with yourself

They transform how you feel

You express, release, integrate. The process heals and empowers

They create your future

From clarity come direction. From direction comes the life you want

SKILLS YOU LEARN IN THIS SCHOOL

Access to Inner Vision

Before technique, there is perception.

  notice what truly wants to emerge from within you
  trust impulses before control
  give form to what you feel, even when it feels unclear or messy

Learn the Magic in the Craft

You listen to your inner calling and explore techniques that help your inner vision take shape. Skills grow through joy and curiosity. Here, watercolor becomes your companion. You explore:

  fluidity, flow, and letting go of control
  ambiguity as beauty, not mistake
  how water, pigment, and chance create living images

Enter the World of Symbols

You step into the language of:
Tarot, dreams, and fairy tales.
You learn to:

  read images before words
  recognize symbols emerging from your unconscious
  create paintings that feel like stories, archetypes, and inner landscapes

Tarot is a mirror of the psyche. Dreams are its language. Painting is how we give it form.
Discover which Archetype you need to awaken
— and what kind of creative energy may be waiting to come back to life.

A creator of inner and outer worlds

What You Begin to Become

Not a “better painter.”
But someone who can:
Want to draw your High Priestess intuitively? No skills required! Tap into the magic of intuitive art. Enter the world of the Tarots beautifully!
Darya Tsptsyna
Your guide into the world of images

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Sunday August 23 at 9:15 am Pacific / 6:15 pm CEST
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School's mission

My mission is to bring light to the forgotten depths of the inner world and support the liberation of the creative feminine through symbolic art. Through watercolor painting, tarot, dreams, and imagination, I explore the language of images — creating a space where hidden stories can emerge, transform, and become visible.

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  • Santarcangelo di Romagna, RN Italy
  • school@appreciationtarot.com
  • +39 0541 1368007
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