D-Face.

As a young kid in England, D-Face read Thrasher Magazine & would spend his time drawing & skateboarding. He loved the skateboard art of Pushead of Zorlac, Jim Phillips of Santa Cruz & Vernon Courtland Johnson of Powell Peralta. D-Face would see the graffiti artists of NYC & became fascinated by what they were doing in the underground subway trains. According to D-Face “Seen & Lee were two very influential artists in NYC during the late 1970s. They brought a real flair & talent to the graffiti pieces. Both were very advanced. I was deeply affected by them & thought that to do real graffiti art, I had to live in NYC. I started doing graffiti pieces in alleys all over England. It was at this time that I started viewing the city differently. A blank wall suddenly became more than that. It was a canvas. It was a possibility.” He then told me that he started doing consumer graphics, but was quickly overcome by boredom. He started making stickers. Punk. Skating. Faces. Anarchy. It grew from there.

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