{"id":19389,"date":"2015-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreams.co.uk\/sleep-matters-club\/lee-hadwin-the-sleepwalking-artist\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T16:42:18","slug":"lee-hadwin-the-sleepwalking-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreams.co.uk\/sleep-matters-club\/lee-hadwin-the-sleepwalking-artist","title":{"rendered":"Lee Hadwin: The Sleepwalking Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some artists are so amazing that you might describe them as being able to draw or paint in their sleep. Whilst this is obviously metaphorical, for one man it\u2019s completely literal.<\/p>\n

Lee Hadwin, known as The Sleepwalking Artist, was born in Wrexham and moved to Denbigh, North Wales at the age of three. When he was around four or five, Lee would get up in the middle of the night, grab some pencils and start scribbling in various places around the house, under the stairs apparently being one of his favourites.<\/p>\n

\u2018I would just get up in the middle of the night and start scribbling and drawing on the walls\u2019, Lee explained. \u2018My parents took me to the doctors, but they just put it down to some form of sleep walking<\/a> because what I was doing was ‘just scribbles’. They didn\u2019t really think too much about it to be honest and presumed it was just a phase.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Lee<\/p>\n

Not just a phase<\/h2>\n

Needless to say, it wasn\u2019t just a phase. When Lee reached his early teens, the drawings became a lot more intricate. It was during this time\u00a0that Lee produced some stunning drawings of Marilyn Monroe, all of which were produced\u00a0whilst he was asleep.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s perhaps even more amazing, however, is that Lee can\u2019t replicate his art when he\u2019s awake. \u2018If I try and reproduce what I\u2019ve done, then I just can\u2019t do it. I have no basic level of art and it\u2019s never been something that has really interested me. The best grade I got at school was a D! I have been up to the Edinburgh Sleep Clinic several times and that\u2019s the thing they don\u2019t understand. That\u2019s the really strange part of it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Lee also has absolutely no recollection of what he\u2019s done when he wakes up. \u2018I can\u2019t ever recall drawing when I\u2019m asleep. I just wake up and whatever\u2019s next to me is clearly what I\u2019ve produced. I do get severe migraines, though, and am sick for about five hours after it\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t really have any control over when it happens. I can sometimes produce two or three pieces of art per week. But then I might not do anything for a few months. When I was around 19 or 20, I didn\u2019t do anything for a whole year. It\u2019s quite sporadic.\u2019<\/p>\n