Enjoy art class with inspirational mouth painter from Uckfield

Bazza West teaches paints without the use of his hands due to physical disability. His tutorials will teach his artistic techniques and encourage people to try using their mouth if they are brave enough.

He’ll be teaching how to paint a beautiful daffodil. You’ll need a palette of primary colours, predominantly yellow, orange and green paint. You can mix it up and be creative with your background colour.

As a young man Bazza was an active sportsman and by age 17 was running his own gardening business. Then, while driving his car, two years later, he swerved to avoid hitting a badger and slammed into a tree that resulted in him becoming a quadriplegic.

Bazza’s rehabilitation meant he spent 11 difficult months in hospital and for a period of time, was on a life support machine because of breathing difficulties.

Bazza’s life later took on a new and transformative direction when he began to mouth paint and he soon realised that this was something that, as a person with no mobility from the neck down, could become a great outlet for his self-expression.

Then, in 2013, he was accepted as a student artist with the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (MFPA) and his future really began to take shape.

With the support of the MFPA, Bazza’s confidence in himself and as an artist has grown dramatically so that today he is a very accomplished commercial artist.

He lives with his wife Loraine, three children and a dog in High Hurstwood, near Uckfield.

To watch his tutorial click here