henry fraser creates stunning works of art. and he lives by this motto. years old, in 2009, just on holiday with group of mates. we went to praia da luz in the algarve in portugal. went to cool off in the sea. i went head first straight into a kind of sandbank and kind of blacked out for a bit and just totally unable to move anything. you know, severely damaged the spinal cord. causing the paralysis i have now. since his accident, henry has been paralysed from the shoulders down. the very first day i was put into a wheelchair, just sobbing and crying uncontrollably, and all i wanted to do was hug my mum and i couldn't even do that, which made things a million times worse. and it was that night i was just lying in bed and i think ijust, you know, ithought, "well, there's no point me kind of being sad or angry about this — ijust need to get on with it." the sheer physicality of painting with a paintbrush in your mouth — how long did it take you to reach a standard which you were happy with? about two years to get to a point where i was really confident. iju

you will remember henry fraser. i have now. since his accident, henry has been paralysed from the shoulders down. the very first day i was put into a wheelchair, just sobbing and crying uncontrollably, and all i wanted to do is hug my mum and i couldn't even do that, which made things a million times worse. and it was that night i was just lying in bed and i think ijust, you know, ithought, "well, there's no point me kind of being sad or angry about this — ijust need to get on with it." the sheer physicality of painting with a paintbrush in your mouth — how long did it take you to reach a standard which you were happy with? about two years to get to a point where i was really confident. ijust kept trying to, you know, try different things, try new techniques, different colours, different images, whatever. just trying to challenge myself to... to kind of push that progression. henry is now a successful artist with a huge following on social media. and his autobiography, the little big things, has been turned into a w