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Hi Everyone.

Here is my unique offer. 

I will paint a portrait of you or someone you love, with all proceeds going to cancer research. 

But here is where it gets interesting. 

I will paint it from life.

I will visit whoever wins this auction, no matter where they are in the world*. 

Why?

Two and a half years ago. I lost my mom to cancer after a very long drawn out war against the disease.

And within the last year, incredibly, another female member of my immediate family went to war with it. 

Mercifully, after bravely undergoing invasive life changing treatment, she is fine now.

This is my tribute to these two inspirational ladies. 

The only positive that I can find from these horrific life events, is, you have to enjoy the good times of life.

Because when the bad times come, and they do for everyone at some point, you long for the times when everyone was ok.

These events have taught me that life is for living. 

Life is for creating. 

Telling people how amazing you think that they are. 

Laughing.

It has taught me to take having fun, extremely seriously. 

It has taught me to have adventures, whenever I can. 

And that is what I hope to achieve with this. I want an adventure. 

I want to meet and paint someone random :) 

Talk to them, get to know them as I paint. 

Because I want to raise money for cancer research.

Because I want to inspire people to have their own adventures, so that they enjoy the good times more. 

Because I think it will be fun. 

And that to me, is how you can really fight against cancer, by living your life as well as you possibly can.

- Andy.


*Details

Times, dates and travel I will arrange at a later date. Depending on where I need to go, I will work out travel and accommodation costs. I might try and get some free flights by explaining the whole idea to companies. Or I might just pay for it myself. Or depending on how much the painting sells for, I might take it out of the cost. The length of time spent painting, will depend on the complexity of the portrait. However, I am quite a fast painter, so it is not inconceivable that I could paint it in a day or two.

I have included some of my other paintings, to give some idea of the quality I can achieve.

I am competent in both oil and acrylic, although acrylic would be my preferred option, I could also offer an oil painting. 

If you are not interested in bidding, but are interested to follow the story, you can follow it on my twitter feed: @andy_leek

If you are interested in looking at some of my other projects, you can find them at theworkofandy dot com