The woman, who suffered a head injury after falling down a staircase, was amazed when she woke up the next day to find that she was a talented artist.
Pip Taylor, 49, of Birkenhead, Merseyside, recalls that she always enjoyed drawing lessons at school and even dreamed of becoming a professional artist, but teachers always noted that she had talent. It was only after receiving a severe concussion from falling down the stairs that she suddenly had the opportunity to create beautiful works of art.
Now the woman paints up to four pictures a day and, upon seeing her work, strangers even ask to draw something for them.
“It's just incredible and pretty weird. I always loved to paint and hoped to become an artist when I was a teenager, but I never had the talent. I used to draw only caricatures and the only one I could realistically reproduce was Snoopy,”Pip admitted in an interview with Mail Online.
As proof of her lack of drawing ability, the woman even found her old sketchbook in the attic, in which she drew when she was 16 years old. Now she shivers when she looks at her attempts to portray people and faces.
Pip Taylor suffered severe brain injuries when she tripped and rolled down a flight of stairs while visiting the Chester Racetrack with a friend in May 2012.
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“I fell and hit my head on the stone steps several times. I was taken to the hospital by ambulance. When I came to my senses a few hours later, I didn't understand where I was,”the woman says.
Now Pip Taylor paints every day, because he worries that her new talent will disappear as suddenly as it appeared. The woman is one of the few living in the world who, having suffered a head injury, discovered in herself a talent that she did not have before.
While research on this unusual brain response to trauma has been going on for a long time, none of the theories have yet been scientifically substantiated. Many researchers believe that new abilities are the result of one hemisphere compensating for trauma in the other.
