Police 999 operator who had never painted becomes an artist after having a stroke

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A police 999 call handler who had never painted in her life has become an artist – after having a stroke. Janet Heaven was left virtually blind after suffering the stroke at work.

When her sight returned, she had an uncontrollable urge to paint after being struck by a new sense of the “radiant brilliance” in her garden.

And able to work from home for North Yorkshire Police, she began picking up a brush. Janet, 61, from Bedale, near Northallerton, said: “The garden became a source of colours from the flowers and insects. "I was brought up on a farm, so nature and the countryside are important.

The stroke brought them back more vividly than I’d ever experienced.” Her sister Sandra Parker has an art gallery in Barnard Castle, Co Durham.