WIRRAL artist Denise has never pursued a career in art,

but has been painting ever since she was old enough to pick up a brush.

"It's a natural ability my mother had and something I've always done as a hobby," explained Denise.

Denise, 39, has been practising a technique known as psychic art for over a year.

Psychic art is a form of mental medium ship whereby the medium is influenced to draw pictures.

This can be broken down into two areas, one being where pictures of people known to be in spirit are drawn, the second being an aura graph, a diagram of the aura.

Introduction

It is perhaps one of the lesser-known skills of the psychic, but also one of the most fascinating.

Surveys have shown that people with a psychic ability very often come from artistic or creative backgrounds.

"I've been going to a spiritualist church for 12 months and I've met some lovely people," said Denise. "When I first went there, someone came up to me and started telling me personal details that he couldn't possibly have known.

"I was asked to bring a pad and paper next time I came and out of curiosity I did. I started drawing and a gentleman who had lost a relative recognised what I'd drawn and broke down in tears.

"I'm usually rubbish at portraits so to get such a response was a surprise.

"Spiritualism is the concept that everyone and everything has energy that is accessible to everyone. The collection of this energy is considered as the entity, the consciousness and what people describe as God.

"A spiritualist can see through time and space by connecting to the universal energies. This idea originates from Indian and Aboriginal tribes, people of the earth. I'm lucky enough to know that I have a connection, not a strong one at the moment but I am only in development."

She is also writing a book, entitled 'Intangible Assets', which is an autobiographical account of her path through spiritualism."

When asked about her ambitions for the future, she replied: "Sometimes if you go looking for a path it can't be found so it's best to just go with the flow."

This article was taken from the Wirral Globe

published August 2004

Written by George Heron