1965年出生的艾莉森·拉佩尔患有“海豹肢症”的先天残疾,没有双手、膝盖,脚和上身由大腿骨连接,双腿特别短小。她出生后几周内就被母亲送到“残疾之家”,度过了无助而孤寂的童年。3岁时她学会用脚摆弄画笔,16岁时她用脚创作的绘画作品已在当地绘画竞赛中获奖。后来,她进入萨顿 Alison Lapel, born in 1965, had a natural disability of “seal limbs” without hands, knees, legs and upper body connected by a thigh bone, with particularly short legs. Within weeks of her birth she was sent by her mother to a “home with a disability” and spent a helpless and lonely childhood. At the age of 3, she learned to use her feet to paint brushes. At age 16, her foot-painted paintings have won prizes in the local painting competition. Later, she entered Sutton