The man, who does not wish to disclose his name or age, has revealed he has local links to Wiltshire, with family living in the county.
Known as ‘Cuss’, he has recently painted his distinctive pink cloud images on walls and hoardings in Trowbridge.
Under a condition of anonymity, he told the Wiltshire Times: “I am not local to Trowbridge but I used to work around the area.
“I have known the area a little bit, enough to know the little places to get away with stuff.”
The artist says he is based “on the outskirts of London” and is a family man with a young daughter who shares his passion for creating street art.
“I am not a teenager, I am a grown adult and a family man.
“I know that what I do might seem to be a bit senseless but there is a bigger plan to it.
“No-one knows me but being out there just raises the value of the art a little bit.
“It’s like Banksy, if we all realised who it was art would devalue quite a lot in my opinion.”
The man revealed that he trained as a fine artist and attended the Sue Burns Art School at Stowford Manor near Wingfield around nine years ago.
He says he is now “very lucky” to work as a full-time artist and adds’ “I would say I owe her a lot of where I currently at in my career from her teachings.”
A design by his young daughter inspired his pink cloud images, which he worked to perfect before launching them on an unsuspecting world.
Cuss prefers street art because he says: “When you do a piece, you sit alone, and you put it on the wall.
“It might get into a few galleries hung on a wall for a few weeks but after a while nobody really cares and it just gets lost.
“When you find something that works that people love you have to keep doing it and doing it and over and over because you need that living side of it.
“What I am doing with my graffiti is not profitable at all. With my graffiti, it is all about a little bit of meaning and a little bit of passion.”
He has been worked as a street graffiti artist for “about a year” and says his canvas is brick walls, concrete and boarded up shops.
“I have played around with quite a few different characters, not locally to Trowbridge, in my workshop.
“I know it is just a pink cloud but it took quite a while to get to the shapes of them. It is not just like I feel like doing a cloud today. A lot more effort that went into it.”
The man revealed that he has sold a few of his pieces in art galleries and that he browses charity shops for old picture frames to leave with his work for “everyone to kind of grab”.
He added: “I usually do about 20 or 30 pieces and I do a lot of work for charity believe it or not. They have helped me out by giving me all the frames that people don’t want.”
Cuss disclosed that he’s likely to come back to Trowbridge again before Christmas to do more work.
“I felt like I got a lot of appreciation for my art from Trowbridge, more than in other cities that I have done.”
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