Our Creators

Jean Michalski

Mouth Artist

Jean Michalski was born on 10 December 1936 in Belgium. At the age of ten, Jean climbed a utility pole together with friends and sustained severe burn injuries that both...

Eiichi Minami

Mouth Artist | Japan

Born on 28 August 1951 in the Prefecture of Nagano, Eiichi Minami was seventeen years old and in third grade of High School when he suffered an accident in a...

Kiichiro Mizumura

Mouth Artist | Japan

Kiichiro Mizumura was born on 17 July 1946 in Tokyo. When he was ten years old, Mizumura lost both arms in an accident. Soon afterwards he began to draw and...

William Wallis Mooney

Mouth Artist | Australia

William Wallis Mooney was born on 11 February 1942 in Melbourne. As a young athlete, William had quite a promising career ahead of him when he was in a diving...

Cristóbal Moreno-Toledo

Mouth Artist | Spain

Born on 21 June 1941 in Cordoba, Cristóbal Moreno Toledo has suffered from muscular dystrophy since birth. He began painting and writing with his mouth in elementary school. With great...

Machiko Morita

Mouth Artist | Japan

In the first year of her life, Machiko Morita suffered a high fever. In the course of the illness, she developed cerebral palsy, which led to a permanent stage one...

Ah Kwai Ng

Foot Artist | Malaysia

Ah Kwai Ng was born without arms, and at the age of sixteen, he began to teach himself to draw and paint with his right foot. Born on 31 May...

Jeong Park

Mouth Artist | South korea

Jeong Park was born on 27 October 1971 in Dong-Hae. In 1991 he fractured his 4th and 5th dorsal vertebrae in a swimming accident. This resulted in permanent paralysis of...

Dr. Santina Portelli

Mouth Artist | Italy

Dr Santina Portelli was born on 26 June 1948 in Ragusa and has been paralysed in all her limbs since birth. She moved with her parents to Milan at the...

Elias Raftopulos

Mouth Artist | Greece

Elias Raftopulos was born on 10 May 1958 in Chania. From 1979 to 1981 he studied at the School of Art in Athens. In August 1981 he had a tragic...

Prof. Fernando Fernandes

Foot Artist | Brazil

Born on 29 October 1944 in Vitoria, due to complications at birth Professor Fernando Fernandes dos Reis was born with a dysfunction of his arms. From twelve to seventeen he...

Klaus Spahni

Mouth Artist | Switzerland

Klaus Spahni was born on 20 June 1940 in Willisau. He contracted polio when he was nine years old, which left his arms and legs totally paralysed. During his physiotherapy...

Benjamin Tan Boon Chuan

Mouth Artist | Indonesia

Benjamin Tan Boon Chuan suffers from cerebral palsy and spastic fits. Born on 27 March 1959 in Singapore, his motor functions are seriously affected, for which reason he was taken...

Tan Kok Leong

Mouth Artist | Singapore

Tan Kok Leong was born on 31 July 1965 in Singapore. He suffered a serious injury of the cervical vertebrae after making a somersault, which resulted in the complete paralysis...

Robert Thome

Mouth Artist | Usa

Born on 21 February 1954 in Los Angeles, at the age of fifteen, Robert Thome suffered a serious injury while playing American football. He bumped into a player of the...

Risto Toivanen

Foot Artist | Finland

Born on 24 December 1946 in Aanekoski, due to cerebral palsy Risto Toivanen’s arms have been paralyzed since birth. When he was only three years old he learned to perform...

Cody Tresierra

Mouth Artist | Canada

Cody Tresierra was born on 12 September 1960. At the age of nineteen, he was involved in a motor vehicle accident which he survived, however with major injuries, but left...

José Gerardo Uribe Aguayo

Foot Artist | Mexico

José Gerardo Uribe Aguayo was born on 16 March 1963 in Dolores Hidalgo without arms and with a deformity of the legs. He taught himself to paint with his foot...