January 5th, 2025When life gives you trauma …

Brilliantly coloured images of rock and pop stars fill a book by Yandoit’s Dave Lewis, and led to one of the memorable stories that The Local enjoyed covering in 2024, the year that was.

The images Dave created arose out of extreme trauma.

He says if his wife had not heard a bump as their daughter Kate fell out of bed, she would be dead.

It seemed that Kate, then 16, was having a fit. She was unable to speak.

An ambulance took her to Ballarat, then to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She was there for six months recovering from an aneurysm.

During Kate’s time there Dave lined her white walls with drawings of music legends from Bob Dylan to Patti Smith.

Read the story at www.tlnews.com.au – Edition 307