Sleepwalking man draws masterpieces

Meet Lee Hadwin By day a nurse, at period he's a \"sleepwalking artist\" who produces strange and fantastical artworks which he has no recollection of drawing when he wakes up the next morning.

Dubbed 'Kipasso', he says he is utterly mystified by his nocturnal talent, while at the daytime he shows no interest or ability in art whatsoever. Major galleries have been asking for examples of his work, which they hope to market on its artistic merit as well as its novelty value.

Hadwin first started sleepwalking when he was four eld old, but his parents believed it was a normal childhood phase. When he was in his teens, he began producing art impact while asleep, at first on his bedroom walls. Once, staying over at a friend's house, he awninged the kitchen walls with doodles in his sleep, an embarrassing discovery at breakfast time the next day. In his late teens and early 20s, the intensity of his sleepwalking increased and Hadwin would wake to encounter everything in the vicinity: tableclothes, newspapers, clothes and walls, awninged in artwork.

Hoping to harness the strange ability, he started leaving artists' materials discover when he went to bed and, sure enough, when he awoke he says he would encounter full-blown pictures beside him. Now, he leaves his bag prepared for nocturnal wanderings, with sketchbooks and charcoal pencils scattered around the house, specially under the stairs, a favorite venue.