An International Art Movement
  
  
Sarah Biffen was the first recorded British mouth painter. Born in Somerset without arms or legs, she lived from 1784 to 1850. During her adult life she managed to make a living in a travelling sideshow by demonstrating her ability to paint with a brush held between her teeth, yet her talent was such that she had a painting accepted at the Royal Academy.
   
  
A century after her death another mouth painter, Erich Stegmann was travelling the world to seek out fellow 'handless' artists in order to join him in his dream of establishing an organisation that would give them the independence by marketing their work for them.
 
 From the small group he gathered for the inaugural meeting of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists held in Liechtenstein, the number of members has reached thousands based in sevety four countries today.
   

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