Street artist hopes to inspire young artists in Preston

As graffiti remained illegal in most situations and there were no “legal walls” in Preston, so Mr Sharpe has set up a unit at Artch Studios, off Marsh Lane, where he has started to teach children as young as eight.

“They’ve been going really good,” he said. “We do some canvas work inside and we learn about the letter structures and then we go outside and teach them how to do lines, circles, fills on a practice wall.”

“It’s not as straightforward as it seems, it’s immensely intricate and depends on where your finger is on the spray nozzle”, he said.

“It can take years to find the right pressure on the cap,” the artist added.