Banksy attack again? A new environmental themed mural surprises in London

A mysterious graffiti appeared in Marble ArchIn central London, at the end of a ten-day environmental protest in the British capital could be the enigmatic British artist Banksy, according to some experts.

The work was discovered this Friday in the area where Thursday, the protest against climate change has been temporarily closed, organized by the group Extinguish Rebellion and that for days has kept the city partially paralyzed.

The mural shows a boy or girl with an environmental group symbolkneeling beside a plant that springs from the ground.

"From that moment, despair ends and tactics begin", says the message that accompanies the design, whose author is attributed to the Bristol artist, which for the moment has not claimed it.

A spokesman for the Westminster District Council in Westminster confirmed that graffiti is the subject of an investigation, without specifying whether it will be protected as a possible public art, given the high price of the work of the English designer.

In statements to the newspaper The Guardian, the collector John Brandler, who owns a gallery and several works by Banksy, does not doubt that the mural carries the graffiti stamp, both for the purpose of execution and because "it is a cause that he would support".

Some protesters still in the Marble Arch area have indicated that, although they did not see who directed the mural, "everyone knows that it is a Banksy" because it has been "verified by other urban artists".

Brandler acquired the last work recognized by the artist. A mural appeared in December 2018 on the wall of a private garage in the Welsh city of Port Talbot.

This graffiti – which represents a child with a sleigh that seems to enjoy the snow, although it is actually ash, with reference to industrial pollution – will shortly be transferred to a public art museum in this same region of Wales.