We no longer check to see whether Telegraph. To see our content at its best we recommend upgrading if you wish to continue using IE or using another browser such as Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome. Go out stencilling during daylight in any city across the globe and you're pretty much guaranteed that someone will come up to you and ask if you're Banksy. I just say 'If I was, I wouldn't tell you'. It's pretty trying, but you have to remember that it's a sign that street art is a big part of modern culture.

Any street artist making a living in the 21st century has a lot to thank Banksy for. Being mistaken for him is a small due to pay. There's a whole generation of Banksy's Children out there.

They've seen this guy become a massive player in the art world and they think they can replicate his success by replicating his art. Street artist creates world's largest 'GIF'. Banksy's Children don't realise how much work it takes. They think they can go out, do a couple of pieces of work on the street, and suddenly it will all happen. Street art is about originality, about ideas. You can't go 'oh, he did a monkey with a policeman's head, so I'll do a policeman with a monkey's head'.

Their work can be horribly derivative. How many times have you seen an image of a little girl holding something on the end of a string? It was fun when Banksy did it; now it's tired. That little girl is tired. Spray paint Is super toxic. It messes with your lungs, gets in your eyeballs, and digs its way under your fingernails.

It's always dripping into your bloodstream; I know people who have died from its effects. But spray paint is as beautiful as hell, and you'll love that you can go straight over a red with a green. One day someone will invent a spray that's made out of quinoa and kale. Every time you spray, you'll get healthier. Your skin will glow. Until then, get the biggest Breaking Bad mask out there, and be prepared to find a purple layer of dust over everything in your studio.

It's the resin from all the paints you use. Putting a work up on the streets isn't like displaying it in a gallery: Stuff goes missing all the time, but you have to be zen about it. Once it's up on a wall, it's there to be taken, painted over, or scrubbed out. It's a bummer when you do something beautiful and it goes instantly - but it's also thrilling.

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Everything is going to fade in the end; our medium is just more open to the vicissitudes of time than most. Building work is your friend. It brings big, beautiful, clean hoardings; the street artist's nectar. But where there is building, there is estate agents.

Once you've developed a name for yourself, they start approaching you to use images of your work on their brochures, to show what an up and coming area they are developing. As a street artist, you're benefiting from gentrification, but that gentrification might ultimately push you and your mates out of the area.

The setup makes you feel conflicted. But hey, the conflict is interesting in itself. If you're feeling sketchy about the situation, you can use your art to explore it. There's a romantic and basically false notion of the street artist as this counter-cultural, underground force, a shadow that slips between the city's cracks and CCTV monitors.

But technology is on our side: Instagram is your best friend. Having your own website is crucial. And technology progresses art.

Oil paint changed things, acrylic changed things, neon changes things. Next it will be drones. If you can fly up and paint something while being in the next street, that's perfect. You want to be ahead of the game. The future will contain what we put into it now. It's up to street artists to produce great work that takes it to the next level. A lot of street artists have short lifespans because they stop chasing originality.

I get up and I work and work and think and think and soak up as much info as I can. Or I might be pursuing an interest in 18th Century engravings, or checking out French typesetters. It's all input, all fuel to the artistic fire.

Street art is a two-part creative process: That second step can take as much time as the first. The guy who starts to set up his materials in the middle of the day will probably get caught before he's completed a single spray, whereas the guy who creates a subterfuge around his activity will be home changing his clothes before anyone's noticed.

He did a massive piece around the back of a multi-storey carpark with a team of artists. It was 3am, but they did it with flashing lights and yellow suits and beacons to make it look like city street works.

Being that visible is almost a better way of hiding. Not only do you get used to working in the cold and wet, you learn to appreciate it.

If it's horrible outside, less people will be on the streets, which gives you more time to do your thing. I remember going out at the end of a hardcore rainstorm in Sao Paolo. It was 2am; the city felt quiet, secure. In Moscow, go outside and you're in a blizzard half the time. You can hardly be seen 20 feet away. I've been doing street art for long enough to know how to talk my way out of a police altercation. I don't really look like a street artist, which helps, and I've learned the benefit of deploying sensible answers when approached on the street.

Never talk aggressively to the police. Even if they've caught you red handed, the truth is they have bigger fish to fry. Just do what they say, even if it means spraying your beloved cans down a drain. New paint can be bought; a clean record cannot. Exhibitions can strike fear into the heart of even the best street artist. I remember being struck by how humbled Robbo was that he was going to present his work to people in my gallery. He was terrified about their response.

Street artists grow accustomed to anonymity. There's a safety in numbers on the street that doesn't apply to exhibitions. Hanging work in a gallery can bring a meltdown. Even if you measure your own success on whether galleries take an interest in your work, shows are always an anti-climax. I pinch myself all the time. I sit on the train and look at commuters who wear their briefcases like albatrosses, stuck into a job to pay for their lives. Pure Evil is creating days of Street Art around London and Worldwide.

He and can be found creating the pieces every day in his new gallery space at the Pure Evil Gallery, Leonard Street, Shoreditch www.

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Accessibility links Skip to article Skip to navigation. Saturday 17 June Women Men GoodLife Wellbeing Interiors Gardening Food Pets Relationships Expat Puzzles Announcements Events. Thinking Man Active Fashion and Style Relationships The Filter Instant Expert Why Not Get Moving? Charles Uzzell-Edwards - AKA Pure Evil - describes the life of the street artist Pure Evil's tag. Everyone thinks you're Banksy. There can only be one Banksy. Your health will take a battering Spray paint Is super toxic.

You get used to theft Putting a work up on the streets isn't like displaying it in a gallery: You develop an uneasy relationship with estate agents Building work is your friend.

You have to embrace technology There's a romantic and basically false notion of the street artist as this counter-cultural, underground force, a shadow that slips between the city's cracks and CCTV monitors. You become a Renaissance Man A lot of street artists have short lifespans because they stop chasing originality. You learn how to hide in plain sight Street art is a two-part creative process: Bad weather conditions are good weather conditions Not only do you get used to working in the cold and wet, you learn to appreciate it.

The gift of the gab helps I've been doing street art for long enough to know how to talk my way out of a police altercation.

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