

Art commentators have suggested he suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - although the artist corrected them describing his practice as ‘Obsessive-Compulsive Drawing'.

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.Ĭox, an irrepressible marker-pen doodler from a young age, covered his bedroom with doodles from as young as six years old.
