He may be gone from Coronation Street, but he's not forgotten.
Former star Steve Huison is selling a range of his artwork to raise money to keep a mental health service afloat.
The Shipley actor, who played long-haired layabout Eddie Windass, is selling his work on an internet auction site to raise funds.
He's best known for taking his clothes off in the box office smash hit movie The Full Monty before starring in one of Britian's much loved soaps for the past couple of years.
Now Mr Huison is selling prints of the artworks featuring 20 of his former Coronation Street co-stars to raise funds for a project called Hospital To Home which provides drama workshops for people with mental health problems at Airedale General Hospital in Steeton, near Keighley and Victoria Hall, Saltaire
Much of the £20,000-a-year funding has now been axed but Mr Huison, who has played character roles in such TV series as Casualty, Where the Heart Is, dinnerladies , Heartbeat and The Royle Family is hoping to raise much-needed funds by auctioning the prints on eBay and the Shoestring Theatre Company.
The talented artist is hoping the work which includes prints of actors including William Roache (Ken Barlow), Michael Le Vell (Kevin Webster) and Katy Cavanagh (Julie Carp) will sell quickly.
He told BCB reporter Raz Mirza: "I'm raising money for a couple of organisations which are both mental health related.
"It's not easy to raise money for. You use the word mental and a lot of people shut down. Also, with the recession, a lot of funding has been cut and mental health services are one of the first things to be cut.
"I did an exhibition earlier this year in Manchester, while I was working on Coronation Street, I drew large portraits.
"I sold all of them off but I got prints made, a limited edition, which I'm selling through the shoetringforum.org website and also on ebay.
"It's not the ideal way to be funding mental health services and the arts, but I don't know any other way of doing it at the moment."
Steve Huison by BCB News
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