SPIRIT PAINTING
FOURTH OF A SERIES ARTIST AT A SEANCE LONDON. May 8 William Longstaff has produced a painting which is declared by a group of spiritualists to have been originated by the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, assisted by a coterie of celebrated painters now dead. It is the fourth of a series of psychic pictures painted in this manner, spiritualists having approached Longstaff at the end of 1934 to portray human progress toward the " other side." Longstaff told an interviewer that while not accepting the spiritualists' belief in unseen hands directing his painting, he was profoundly moved by their faith. " Therefore," he said, " I agreed to attend a seance where a 'control,' speaking for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, criticised my latest picture and other 'controls' expertly appraised my technique." Longstaff claims to have developed a method of painting on a tempera base, whereby the brightest of colours is permanently preserved. The picture represents primitives creeping into the early light of reasoa.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22108, 14 May 1935, Page 9
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