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Interviewer: Dear listeners, meet Lee Hadwin the ‘sleepwalking artist’. Lee, how did you feel when you first woke up and found a masterpiece on your bedroom wall?
Man: Well, I don’t remember the first time. I started drawing in my sleep when I was four. As a child I used to get up at night and draw on the walls. In my teens the drawings became more detailed. I drew pictures and in the morning I just looked at them and thought ‘Oh, wow!’ My parents took me to doctors who said it might be because of a big shock. But nothing terrible happened in my life before I was twelve, so I’m sure shock wasn’t the reason.
Interviewer: Did the doctors suggest a therapy?
Man: No. They’re surprised that I cannot produce the same things when I’m awake. I’m not good at art when I don’t sleep. But the doctors’ advice to my parents was to let me carry on, and so they did.
Interviewer: Good for them, because in the next two decades you produced more than 600 great paintings and drawings. But art critics don’t like your pictures too much.
Man: I don’t blame them. They know better than anyone that in the case of most people it takes years of studying and hard work to become an artist. Then you get someone like me who’s never been to university and who doesn’t know much about art, and people buy my work.
Interviewer: Lee, thank you for being with us.
Man: It was a pleasure.