It is good to challenge yourself and follow a client’s brief. Every now and then I will do a commissioned mural, maybe every seven years or so. For me it depends on how I feel, the last paid mural I did was around 2013 and I enjoyed it. Then on the other side of the coin is the stuff I have always done, uncollectable eclectic stuff that finds itself in storage or on the rare occasion exhibited.

My own paid mural work was normally through a designer who got in touch when there was a fit out in a club or home. A while ago I told her I was going to concentrate on my own work. I was operating on a small scale and literally had a trolley that I wheeled on public transport and it was ok money but I didn’t really feel that the extra money was worth it for the effort. It wasn’t the making of the mural but the planning and design.

I tend to plan for weeks and I think of every scenario and outcome, I double check triple check because I normally only had one chance to make it work. I am kind of the same with graffiti, I dig through ideas sometimes for weeks or months then a few days before doing it I let it happen. All of my drawings are like turning the wheel of the vehicle that is visual art, an adjustment here, a new direction, an old direction then on the wall or paper you arrive somewhere.

Now that I am older I arrive at a lot of familiar visual destinations and rarely anywhere new but I have come to embrace the listless nature of what I do. It has become a legacy that doesn’t break new ground but keeps the show on the road. Because I came from a tagging, throw up graffiti background in the mid to late eighties I see value in what I do. Sadly for me since throwing in illegals my general popularity in graffiti has mostly dried up.

I can’t sit on my laurels and so I just keep trying to push what I am doing. I still like working on walls, I like letters and bending the visuals. I kind of see a lot of the past in what I do, There are so many influences and now I feel like Gerhardt Richter, Frank Stella, early cubist Picasso and Braque and a bunch of stuff that sits in my hoarding confused brain all jump into the mix. What I like about today is the visual bombardment from every angle, it is like a huge sampling playground.