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An artist has a medical condition which means she sees colours and shapes when she hears sounds - and says Taylor Swift's voice looks like "neon flowers."

Sarah Kraning, 31, has experienced colours in music for as long as she can remember and began painting what she could hear aged four.

Growing up, she initially struggled due to being constantly over-stimulated with sound, and doctors thought she had ADHD or autism.

But she was diagnosed with synethesia and now sells paintings of what she sees when she hears sounds and music.

Talented Sarah can complete a full piece of work in the duration of a song.

She says piano notes are raindrops, electronic dance features glowing colours and country music tends to have a lot of yellows.

Heavy metal looks like TV static while deep bass notes look like spray.

Sarah says that high notes are often bright and low notes are dark like purple and black.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s voice often looks like dark green velvet to Sarah, whilst Beyonce's voice has some "deep maroon with a gritty texture, almost like spray paint"

And one of the latter's songs, 'Break My Soul', contains "silver, chunky glimmers that look like thick silver confetti" for the background percussion and "hot pink and violet purple" for the electronic melody."

Whilst Sarah described the guitar picks/melody line in 'Eyes Closed' by Ed Sheeran as looking like droplets of hues of blue and aquamarine, falling upwards.

Sheeran's voice to Sarah looks like a "forceful liquid movement almost like if you were to throw a bucket of paint at a wall with lots of blue and green."

Sarah, a professional artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, said: "I'm not sure exactly when I became aware of it - it's just like another sense for me. "

"It's just like asking when you could smell for the first time."

"There are some songs that are a lot more vivid than others but every type of sound has some type of experience - it's like the saturation is turned up on some kinds of music."

"If there's a unique visual or sound that I haven't heard before I'll get out my pad and draw it quickly but because every sound has a visual to me I'm not always doing that."

"it's what makes my life enjoyable. "

"For a lot of people though, including me, it would be a more enjoyable experience if there was more awareness of it."

Sarah says she never fit into any box of what her experiences were related to and often felt overstimulated at school.

She said: "I did a lot of tests and never really fit into the box of what it could be - paired with a lack of understanding of it."

"I remember when I started tracking that it wasn't an experience that others have when I was seven or eight."

She was officially diagnosed with synethesia in 2015.

Describing her condition she added: "The pitch seems to be related to the colour but not the location on the canvas. "

"Most songs have movements so I try to show that in my paintings. So if the pitch changes from low to high then there might be a sweeping motion on the canvas."

"I prefer to do it live. "

"It depends how complex that song is but often I can paint an entire piece in one song. "

"I always have to have the music playing - I did a concert where I did a painting for each song that the live musician played, so I had 15 paintings for the end of the show."

Most of Sarah's earnings come from commissions.

She added: "It's usually songs that people have requested that are close to them."

"Sometimes people will send me voice notes of a loved one who has passed away and ask me to paint that - that's very emotional."

"My favourite songs are ones that have a lot of movement in them and Time by Hans Zimmer had a lovely red figure of eight."

"I did a Lost In Yesterday painting from Tame Impala and that was because the colours are so fun in that song. "

"I really focused on the movement in that song and that was a one-listen take."

"Odessa songs are often the most visually interesting as they have a lot of glowing elements to it."

She said: "For most of my life I hadn't shared this with anybody and people were often confused by my synesthesia. "

"I've only been talking about this for the past few years so it's still strange for me to hear people be so nice about my artwork."

"In the past, this has sort of been disbelieved so I hope that more people start coming forward and showing their experiences."