Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

This raffle will raise money for the Cardiomyopathy Association. The winner will be chosen at random when I have reached my target amount and they will be able to choose TWO pieces of my emulsion transfer artwork from my website: https://richardhydeartist.com/index.php/shop/.

The work is on wooden box canvas and will be posted to you free of charge ready to hang. Raffle tickets are £1 each so the more you buy then the better your chance of winning.

Please include your full name if you want to be included in raffle - so I can get hold of you if you win.

My partner Karen Hodgson was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in her late 20s. The 'benefit' of the diagnosis was that the condition could be managed, but only with copious medication and regular hospital visits.

By the time she was 41, Karen's condition deteriorated rapidly. Etched on my brain in the day in 2006 when we sat with her consultant at Papworth Hospital who said she should consider a heart transplant. She calmly accepted his advice and she was placed on the waiting list for a donor. A few weeks later she had a new heart and she has gone from being unable to walk a few hundred metres to running the London Marathon and completing fell races in the Peak District. It has been an incredible transformation.

Karen talks about her condition here: https://youtu.be/w1HUf5BER6w

Cardiomyopathy continues to be a commonly undiagnosed life-threatening condition and the work of the Cardiomyopathy Association is critical to raise awareness and ensure that anyone who has this debilitating illness has the best possible quality of life.