A blind artist creates colorful canvases by touch. Delight!

The year 2001 was a turning point for the American artist John Bramblitt. After another attack of epilepsy, John lost his sight. From that moment on, his eyes can only distinguish between light and darkness. And his only salvation from despair was drawing. John has developed his own style: he uses textural paints, according to which he focuses on the canvas.

We have selected the 10 best works of the artist, which are worthy of special admiration.

2001 was a new page for John in his career as an artist.

"The idea that it is possible to draw without sight has never occurred to me before."

"A year after I went blind, I started thinking about what I could do to start painting again."

"Basically, the sense of touch replaces for me everything that the eyes do for a sighted artist."

"In fact, the eyes perform only two functions for the artist: they help determine the location of an object on the canvas and choose a color."

"Over time, I was able to develop several methods to make the lines on the canvas fit more accurately."

"All the bottles and tubes of paints in my studio are signed in Braille. To mix colors, I use a recipe, that is, I measure different parts of each desired color to get the right shade. It's like using a recipe for baking a cake."

"At my first exhibitions, I didn't tell people about my blindness."

"Not because I was ashamed, but because I didn't want it to affect their perception of my art."

Blindness for an artist can be the final point in his career. But not for John Bramblitt. The loss of vision, on the contrary, helped to reveal his genius and the limitless possibilities of his talent.