When he plummeted from a roof and heard his skull crack on the concrete floor below, Mark Wellburn thought he was going to die.
He suffered multiple injuries in the accident and was plagued by nightmares for months but his brush with death led to brushes of a different kind.
Seven years on from the horrific fall, Mark has recovered well and has re-built his life – something he doesn’t think he’d have been able to do as well without painting.
‘The specialist said I would only ever recover to about 75% but I think I’m back at about 95%. I think that’s because of the art,’ Mark says.
This story is from the August 2020 edition of Lancashire Life.
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