Ashraf Al - Nimri .. Paintings in the colors of the challenge

Maryam Naciri - Tunisia

Creation of impotence will, to create wonderful paintings. It is not a typical painter, especially as it is fixed between the fingers of his foot blades, to blend the colors that he brings, and the movements of light transfers the feather between the color loader and his painting, which placed on the ground to facilitate the process of drawing.

Ashraf Al-Nimri is a 33-year-old man from the Kabari district of the capital. He was born with an atrophy in his arms and legs, but he challenged this situation and armed himself with the will to create bright paintings.

Ashraf's disability did not prevent him from being a creative painter, who participated in many Tunisian exhibitions in several governorates.

Ashraf says he has mastered painting since he was a five-year-old boy. He later joined a school in the capital in 1999 to learn painting by Mohamed Mutaimat, Tunisia's biggest plastic artist.

Ashraf received support from a Swiss association for people with special needs, provided him with painting equipment and helped him to hold art exhibitions in Switzerland for three consecutive years.

His first cartoon was cartoon characters. Until his career gradually grew until he received a certificate of professionalism awarded to the first disabled person in Tunisia.

He paints portraits of the most famous landmarks in several Tunisian regions. He has participated in several exhibitions and sold most of his paintings at simple prices, not more than eighty dollars.

The young man receives support from the Tunisian Ministry of Social Affairs, which helps him to cover some of the fees for painting equipment.

"No one is deprived of anything but God compensates for something else," said Ashraf al-Nimri. "Any person who was a regular or a person with special needs - God is distinguished by some creativity - can push him to success."