British artist, Georgiana Houghton (1814-1884), developed skills as a medium after attending her first séance in 1859 and achieved her first mediumistic drawings in 1861. For the next decade, under the guidance of a spirit called Lenny, followed by master painters and 70 Archangels, she produced over 155 extraordinary watercolor spirit drawings.

Houghton was delighted with her new gift and began each piece without preconception of the outcome. She filled each sheet of paper with woven swirls of vibrant colors, forming an abstract and harmonious layering of hues and tints that were a completely different method from anything she had experienced in her art training.

Amongst her circle of friends and fellow Spiritualists, she soon became recognized as a pioneer of spirit art with Anna Howitt Watts and Elizabeth Wilkinson.

To reach a wider audience and hopefully inspire others to become Spiritualists and develop their own gift as spirit artists, Georgiana mounted a solo exhibition which took place from May to September in 1871 at the New British Gallery in Old Bond Street, London.