WELLINGTON, UK: Artist JPS stands next to his ten-foot tall Alien creation. A RECOVERING addict has declared that Banksy saved his life by turning him from a life of drink and drugs. Thirty-seven year-old self-taught stencil artist Jamie Paul Scanlon, known by the street name “JPS”, started his street art in his hometown of Weston-Super-Mare. Unlike Banksy, who admitted to being a former public schoolboy in 2008, Jamie is from Weston-Super-Mare’s rough council estate of Bournville. When he was just 19-years old two of his best friends were killed, which led him to a life of homelessness and dr
WELLINGTON, UK: Artist JPS stands next to his ten-foot tall Alien creation. A RECOVERING addict has declared that Banksy saved his life by turning him from a life of drink and drugs. Thirty-seven year-old self-taught stencil artist Jamie Paul Scanlon, known by the street name “JPS”, started his street art in his hometown of Weston-Super-Mare. Unlike Banksy, who admitted to being a former public schoolboy in 2008, Jamie is from Weston-Super-Mare’s rough council estate of Bournville. When he was just 19-years old two of his best friends were killed, which led him to a life of homelessness and drug addiction. Always interested in art, it was only after seeing a Banksy exhibition that he was inspired to take his streetart to a new level, which turned his life COPYRIGHT: JPS / MEDIA DRUM WORLD
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