Arts

Hepburn in a can

I've grown to love graffiti. Rarely will a week go by without me photographing another mark someone's left on the landscape: a carving, a brush-stroke or a sprayed tag.

Here's last week's.

Have I been sleeping? Stencilled graffiti seems to have really caught on in the past five years, yet I have a sneaking suspicion it's been around forever.

Whatever the history, stencils have given artists the freedom to be more daring, more contemplative, more imaginative and more humorous in their work.

Whether it's Hepburn beside the River Orwell, Banksy in London, or just a pair of initials carved into an old lock gate, graffiti remains my favourite art.