April 11, 2026
See the Paintings That a 19th-Century Artist Created While Guided by Spiritual Forces
In the mid-19th century, Georgiana Houghton began creating intricate, abstract drawings unlike anything her contemporaries had seen. Houghton developed a visual language of swirling color and line that she believed was guided by unseen spiritual forces. In Victorian England during the 1860s and 1870s, Houghton produced intricate watercolor compositions she described as “spirit drawings.” These works were not conceived as imaginative inventions, but as transmissions by spirits from another realm.
