Mr Doodle has become a coveted artist
The latest young British artist to crack the international art market is Mr Doodle (real name Sam Cox), a 27-year-old tousle-haired former graphic illustration student at University of the West of England, Bristol, whose work I would describe as a cross between the late American graffiti artist, Keith Haring, and Mr Men.
Cox, an irrepressible marker-pen doodler from a young age, covered his bedroom with doodles from as young as six years old. Art commentators have suggested he suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. He adopted his name after he turned up at his Bristol college one day in his late teens wearing an outfit covered in his own spaghetti-like doodles.