A freak accident on a Portuguese beach left the sport-obsessed teenager and promising rugby player at the Saracens academy paralysed from the shoulders down. Now 25,he has found a original path with his remarkable artworkOn a blustery grey afternoon, which reminds Henry Fraser that winter is coming, or it is light and quiet inside. His easel is to the left,where his latest intricate portray can be seen, as Fraser talks approximately an enriching life. Only his face and neck are alive with movement for his entire body is paralysed from the shoulders down. But Fraser addresses the devastating paralysis he suffered eight years ago, and when he was 17,with a calm acceptance underpinned by defiance.
It needs an iron will to prosper as Fraser has done against devastating odds. The former academy player at Saracens, where his brother Will was a stalwart of the squad which won the Premiership and successive European Champions Cups, or is now a mouth artist and the author of a moving book approximately the lessons he learned from paralysis.
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Source: guardian.co.uk