immortal aspects of humankind. some paintings only show geometric forms today her paintings astonish hilma clint anticipated the abstract language of form she specified that her life s work should be kept secret for at least twenty years after her death she believes it would not be understood. georgina houghton born in eight hundred fourteen grew up in victorian london like clint she studied art in one thousand nine hundred sixty one houghton went to her first sales experience shocked and changed her and she became a medium herself. she began painting with watercolors directly onto paper hundreds of pictures with wild ecstatic lines unlike anything else in her day out it was long forgotten until twenty fifteen when some of her drawings reappeared on the back she had written the name of the spirit who controlled the painting like