Who is the mysterious graffiti artist known as Banksy?”
COOKHAM’S answer to the infamous ‘street artist’ Banksy may have arrived after a mysterious graffiti artist began tagging post boxes in the village. Two unusual pieces of grafitti have been drawn on the red Royal Mail units around the village. The first is a white skull in Spring Lane and the second is a 1950s style gangster holding what appears to be a machine gun in his right hand in Terry’s Lane. The drawings were spotted and photographed by I.T consultant James Hamilton, 30, of Lower Road, Cookham. He said: “I drive past it every day and it was just totally out of the blue, it’s eerie. It’s not the usual mindless graffiti and it’s not abusive. “It doesn’t have any humour in it but obviously has a meaning. “I reckon it’s probably an art student, someone like that, perhaps doing a thesis and finding out what can kind of reaction it gets, whether it goes viral.” He added: “But why post boxes? Perhaps it’s a disgruntled postman.” Both drawings seem to have been done with a stencil, in
