That is just how he has painted it for Southern Health's Heart Art collection.

The 53-year-old experienced a heart attack on February 25. In the middle of the day he started feeling chest pains and immediately went to Southern Health's Dandenong Hospital, where his condition was discovered and immediately treated.

"They are the best," Oana said of Southern Health staff. "They gave me the right medication and put me in an ambulance to MonashHeart in Clayton. I had an angioplasty done there."

Since the operation, Oana has completely changed his lifestyle - he is now a vegan and exercises daily.

To give something back to Southern Health, he decided to donate a painting. It was presented with a ceremony at MonashHeart last Tuesday.

"I wanted to give them my experience," said Oana, who has been painting for 30 years. "The idea came spontaneously, it was natural for me to sit at the canvas and do it.

"I painted a landscape with a country road going through some grass, then out of nowhere, exactly how my heart attack struck, I painted a twister. In the middle of the twister is a heart - a heart in trouble, fighting for survival."

MonashHeart's unique Heart Art collection was initiated in 2005 and has since grown with the acquisition of more than 25 prints, paintings and multimedia works.