Never Back Down!Meet Paralysed Man Who Paints Incredible Pictures With His Mouth

Meet a 53-year-old paralysed man who writes amazing pictures using only his mouth, Finmere, Oxfordshire, UK.

Keith Jansz took up the challenge when he became tetraplegic. He had lost the use of his hands and legs in a tragic road accident in 1995, spent six months in hospital and was left paralysed from the neck down.

Keith Jansz took up the challenge when he became tetraplegic

But Keith did not fall in despair and found his sense of life in painting. He turned to painting, with the added challenge of painting with his mouth not his hands. 

                                                                                      Keith Jansz’s recent work

Keith proved by his own example that creativity did not have to end at disability. He began to use a mouth guard to grip the paint brush between his teeth, before applying it to canvas and results were incredible. 

                                                                             Keith Jansz: Silver Punch Bowl

In Keith’s own words, “I love to feel my brush dance across the canvas and give back to me the sensation of movement which my body now lacks.” 

                                                                               Keith Jansz: Venetian Sparkle

His talents were soon spotted by the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (MFPA), an organisation that helps to support and promote artists who paint without the use of their hands.