At the peak of his addiction, Chris Ellis was smoking ice and then topping the high with anything he could get his hands on — cocaine, ecstasy, GHB, even smoking heroin.
He knew he was an addict and was desperate for help. Then he found solace in an unlikely place — sitting in his lounge room with a paintbrush in one hand and a blank canvas in the other.
His powerful acrylic self-portrait — a showcase of the emotions he was grappling with as a drug addict — has now become a defining marker on his path to recovery.
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