It took two years, 900 litres of white paint, 400 cans of spray paint and 286 bottles of black drawing paint. The 12-room mansion in Tenterden that he shares with his artist wife Alena is completely covered inside and out in his rambling hand-drawn “graffiti spaghetti”, as he calls it. Mr Doodle has become well known in recent months for achieving one of his main aims – to doodle his entire house. “I hope that this doodle can help create some funds for the young artists in Ashford to have opportunities in the future,” he said. I created my doodle live so that people could see the process of my piece from start to finish. It was a helpful thing for me to have a space to practice some of my larger scale work.

“When I was younger I sometimes doodled in the spaces that the Bauhaus Cafe looked after for young artists. Now the rare work has come on the market, supported by Mr Doodle himself.

It is being sold by an anonymous vendor to raise funds for the same Kent organisation – Bauhaus Cafe CIC – that helped launch Mr Doodle in his early days.ĭoughnut Dance was created live in public in 2019 at an exhibition of young local artists at The Auction House space in Ashford, Kent. It’s expected to fetch in excess of £20,000. The acrylic pen on canvas work coming up at the Canterbury Auction Galleries measures 122cms by 91.5 cms and signed ‘Mr Doodle 2019’. In 2021 his auction sales totalled just under $5 million: Artnet ranked him the year’s biggest auction success under 40.

His work had been gathering fame since 2018 then exploded in early 2020, with one of his huge 4-metre artworks selling for just under a million US dollars at a Tokyo auction. Mr Doodle original artwork coming up for auction in KentĪ rare original artwork produced by perhaps Britain’s hottest artist of the moment, Mr Doodle, is coming up for auction in December at the Canterbury Auction Galleries.Ĭalled Doughnut Dance, the cheerful confusion of figures, shapes – and a signature doughnut – is now instantly recognisable as the work of young Kent artist Mr Doodle, AKA Sam Cox, 28, from Tenterden.

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