Lydd Youth Set

This piece was created during a one day workshop in Lydd on 11th August.

We were initially asked to do a workshop with the young people involving a wall or boards.

Both Tony and I were I think, keen to get a fairly decent piece up as we hadn't done a wall for quite some time. We came up with a quick design and worked to the strategy of one person working on the wall, whilst the other taught a stage in the workshop.

It was great working on a brick wall for the first time in ages. I'd forgotten how forgiving it is when spraying.

Enrich Magazine - Manila

This is an article that was written about me when I visited Manila with my wife.

I had promised a friend of my wife's that I would do a piece for her when I came back to the Philippines. We met up, bought some paints and went over to her house to do the piece.

Her friend Mona came over, who's a reporter for Enrich, and interviewed me as I painted.

Read on to see what she wrote...

WKD

This piece was produced on the last day of a 3 week workshop in West Kingsdown.

The young were taught to design pieces and put them up on the back of the skateboard ramps from designs made in the morning.

They were also given individual boards to do the following week to take home.

Tony and I quickly designed a piece to put up on a blank area above a piece I'd done 4 years before. I kept the design, colours and fill-in in a similar style to the previous one and Tony designed some characters of us both for either end.

Warrior (part 2)

Tony (Chaos) had volunteered for us to do a demonstration piece for the River Festival, and had the boards and a quantity of paint supplied. We wanted to demonstrate our strengths in style and came up with some new character and letter designs.

I'd wanted to do a part 2 to a piece that I'd done in 1989 called 'Warrior' which was a bit of a ground breaking piece for me. I've been developing some more up to date lettering and wanted to showcase our talents to a wide audience that would be at the festival.

Tony had designed a great character that fit well above the lettering, and we spent a majority of the day spray this one up (about 6 hours). It was baking hot and we got a bit burnt in the process.

Art Gone Crazy (08/07/09)

This is the end product of several weeks workshops in New Ash Green.

The young people wanted a memorial to a friend of theirs that had recently died, as well a bright piece to liven up the wall.

Urban Reaction 2003

We were asked to create four pieces for an exhibition

callled 'Urban Reaction' to be shown at the County

Gallery at County Hall in Maidstone. The exhibition

was a 'celebration of street culture'

The exhibition ran from Saturday 26th July to

Wednesday September 3rd 2003.

Visitors were able to view and purchase the latest
trainers,skateboards and BMX bikes.

'The Hurst' 15/06/09

This was a piece that was created at the end of a four week workshop at Staplehurst.

We'd spent the first three sessions teaching design and spraying individual boards, and the club wanted a sign for their building.

The young people had come up with the name The Hurst for their youth club - easier to do than Staplehurst Youth Club!