Degard’s paintings are a visual description of consciousness. Degard sees a consciousness around people and things; she calls this energy ‘Conscious Aura’. Degard is a pioneering British ‘Painter of Auras’, writer, researcher, curator and founder of the genre 'Contemporary Visionary'. Degard’s art joins a long history of studies into consciousness, perception and cognition studies, interwoven with visionary experience, as exemplified by visionary artists Susan Hiller, Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint and William Blake. Degard’s art brings this visionary and mystical genre into a contemporary, socio-political context. Degard was taught at Chelsea College of Art by Sir Terry Frost and has recently collaborated on a virtual reality exhibition with Mark Titchner and Gabriel Rico. Molly Hackney, writer of The Medium’s Medium says of Degard’s latest exhibition, Drip: Still Lifes: ‘The canvases at Drip enchant the viewer with this glimpse into spirit connection. It is her choice of objects that gives this exhibition such magnetism.’