What in the world?
This is really bizarre. An artist in the U.K. (of course) can only paint when he's sound asleep. When he's awake he has NO artistic ability! lol.
It's like sleep-walking except doctors call his condition sleep-painting, and apparently there's no cure and he doesn't want one because it's how he makes his living now.
His paintings sell for thousands of dollars and are in art shows all over the world. I don't know if that's because of the quality of his art or because of how he paints them.
No one understands it but he's used to it
Many of his paintings he feels no connection to because he didn't have a conscious reason or desire to create them! But it doesn't bother him, he started drawing like this when he was 4 years old so he's used to it.
When he was 15 yrs old he woke up one day and had drawn 3 small images of Marilyn Monroe and they were good. His parents were stunned. Here's one of them:
This was with no training. Just his subconscious mind working on it's own.
He's not artistic at all when he's awake so he's never painted or drawn anything when he was awake. lol. I guess he's not going to be teaching any art classes any time soon.
Here's another sleep-painting:
He's writing a book about his life and hopes that Netflix will pick it up and make a movie about him. It'll probably happen because his story is so unusual.
Here's another one:
The mind is an amazing thing isn't it? The cat's name is Lee Hadwin. He admits he has no artistic talent. When he's awake. Unreal.
Thanks for stopping by folks, God bless you all!
-jonboy
Texas
PS- I found a few more wire sculptures by the amazing Kendra Haste:
Incredible.