A flying toast

The current character of choice is toast! Literally, it’s toast! Flying toast, toast with cheese, toast on cardboard, toast is everywhere and is the latest in the production line of fun cartoony characters from the mind of London based artist Kayleigh Doughty otherwise known as Artista.

Kayleigh has become well known for her ability to produce large scale surrealist murals in a cartoonist style. Her work can often be seen around the walls of Shoreditch, Stockwell and areas around Croydon where she went to school.

Over the years her work, which she describes as “cartoon surrealist” has evolved into the distinctive style it is now which has it’s roots in the New York lettering culture of the 70’s and 80’s a style she describes as 2D Hip Hop. Although she doesn’t describe herself as a graffiti writer, a number of people on that scene enjoy her work because of the various nods back to that form of street culture.