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Today you’ll meet Phlegm, a graffiti and street artist from UK. He wrote a text about him for The Fatcap Blog. We discovered his artwork with one of his graffiti paint …on on a plane! Here’s Phlegm!
I’m twenty eight and I’m based in Sheffield uk. I’m primarily a cartoonist and illustrator who has an addiction to self publishing and underground art. All of my comic work is with black Indian ink and a dip pen. I only use colour when I’m screen printing or painting walls (or planes.)
I have a strange relation to graffiti, having a style that’s grown entirely from my self published comics rather than letter styles. My comic comes out every four months or so and i work endlessly on them, and have done for the past four years. I started out as a cartoonist but the graffiti side of things has really taken over the past three years. I think it’s because my style has been so effected by what i draw for the comic it’s stopped almost all outside influences. I love to get run down urban spaces and factories and play with the space. It’s such an immediate way to get your picture on the wall. A painting in the street becomes part of the cities architecture, influenced by what’s around it rather than being some awkward canvass in an art gallery.
x phlegm x
