In the 1950s and 60s, Donald Pass, who died of cancer in December 2010 aged 80, was a highly regarded painter of abstracts. His prestigious career in London was suddenly interrupted when, in 1969, he underwent a profound mystical experience in an English churchyard. His art and his everyday life changed from that moment. "A veil had been lifted," he announced, "and I would never again see anything in the same way."

The professional productions ceased and his whole focus now was on communicating the churchyard experience, a vision of ascending souls, winged sentinels and transcendent landscapes, to the widest audience. In 1984 he began a series of monumental charcoal drawings depicting the resurrection. On seeing them, Sir John Rothenstein, former director of the Tate gallery, proclaimed Pass "a genius and a very rare talent".

Working in his studio near Oxford, Donald continued for the rest of his life to convey his vision in the form of scores of drawings and paintings, in his final years attracting the attention of museum collections in the US, Britain and Europe. Film-makers, too, had started to document his very personal, very English awakening.

His extraordinary paintings can be viewed in The American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, whilst Rudolf Steiner House in London, recently held a critically acclaimed one man show 'The Resurrection of Donald Pass', to commemorate his life & work.