DREW BROPHY'S NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE
August 18, 2025
Drew Brophy has been a professional Artist for over 30 years. In the late 90’s, he started out painting surfboards, which lead to illustrating art for some of the top sport companies at the time. Brophy’s love for surfing and interest in the physics of waves influenced his different style. Over the years his art developed, including “sacred geometry” in effort to decode the knowledge that ancient civilizations left for us. Brophy’s goal is to create art that shows people that, “life is meant to be enjoyed and everything is energy, we are all connected.”
Over the last few years Drew has been recovering from a battle he had with Covid where he had a life changing near death experience that inspired his art piece “Tube Traveler''. “I was told that I was going to die and to say goodbye to my family through a window and shortly after got put into an induced coma. To all the people who fear death, don’t worry there’s nothing to fear. It’s seamless, it’s very peaceful and it just feels like being set free from your body. You just become the energy that flows through it. You instantly feel relieved that you’re out of that situation, and it felt like being hugged by billions of children. It was so beautiful and amazing but then I was told I had to go back.” Brophy wasn’t just battling Covid, but the system in place to combat it. Being the only person out of his section of the hospital to survive being on a ventilator for days on end, Brophy said that he feels like he was chosen to survive to tell the story for all the people who didn’t make it. “What people don’t know is once you get put in the hospital you were like a prisoner. I am grateful for the doctors and nurses who ultimately saved me but I’m also grateful that they managed not to kill me.” Brophy knows this experience will ultimately change his art,” It’s going to make it deeper in concepts, and deeper in connection to people, I have an immense amount of compassion for people now.” Drew had a long and hard recovery that took immense courage and eventually led to him being able to surf again after doctors told him that was never going to be possible because he would be stuck on assisted breathing for life and maybe never walk again because he had been paralyzed completely and too atrophied to lift his arm. “Life is not a competition It’s a cooperation” -Drew Brophy