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A former street fighter has been tranformed into an artist who cannot stop decorating his home since a brain haemorrhage physically changed his mind. Once a builder by trade, 60-year-old Tommy McHugh now spends up to 18 hours every day decorating his walls, ceilings, and even his floors in beautiful images he creates with delicate strokes of a brush.
In 2001 he lay in a coma for one week after two aneurysms in the back of his head burst and brought him close to death. After he woke up Tommy found his approach to life had totally transformed.
With uncontrollable urges to create, Tommy began writing poetry, painting, sculpting and carving. Doctors believe his sudden artistic drive was the result of damage to his brain. Changes to his temporal lobes - the area of the brain responsible for understanding meaning - could be what has changed him from a 'jack of all trades handyman' into a passionate artist.
Dr Alice Flaherty, a neurologist from Harvard University in the US, has studied Tommy and his incredible condition.
She said: 'His injury was a crack that let the light in.
'His friends didn't know what to make of this new person who spent hours dripping wax on a pile to make sculptures, who often spoke in rhyme, who loved kittens and wept if he accidentally squashed an insect, who wanted to know what life means.
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