Is this a Banksy Rat found on beach on Isle Of Wight

At the end of Culver on the Sandown side a good mile from the carpark wedged up in the chalk cliffs i found this well beaten shell oil drum, on it was a graffiti stencilled rat and toxic green.

Is it possible Banksy was on holiday this summer on the Island maybe he/she was at the Bestival or is he/she a naturalist. I was fossil hunting up in the chalk for ammonites but this area is an illegal nudist beach.

As Banksy lounged in the midday sun his/her bits hanging out he/she spotted an old battered oil drum and decided to leave a calling card.

It took me hours to carry it back over the shingle then along the sandy beach up on the revetment where the morning doggy walkers stared at me along the revetment into and through town but home i did get it eventually.

So Banksy if you do read this blog a quik e-mail confirming it is your work will be enough to satisfy me.

Commissioned work Laurel and Hardy by Artist Tony Trowbridge.

I do not advertise that i do commissions but if someone walks in and wants something done i am happy to oblige. This is for a birthday present. Laurel and Hardy whispering in grandpa's ear.

20x16inches acrylic on canvas price £30.00.

Melting time display panel by artist Tony Trowbridge

Even my display panel gets blogged. For my studio window, plus melting times no's 9-13

Dali inspired Sculpture Melting Time No7 by Artist Tony Trowbridge

Ceramic on New Zealand drift wood, melting time No7, inspired by the surreal works of Dali.
6x3inches.

Studio Chaos sponsors main event bonfire Night Sandown Isle of Wight

Aaron Isted the Dark Magician will be the main event on Bonfire Night at Sandown Pier, The precursor to the firework display will be the burning of a magician.
The themed event DEAD MAN'S CHEST will be Aaron placed in a pirate chest on top of the bonfire, the chest will be locked and then chains will be slung around and again locked finally a healthy dowsing of petrol.
The bonfire will be set alight and then we wait and see if the Dark Magician can escape his fiery fate.
Studio Chaos is the sponsor for the show and the above painting by Tony Trowbridge will be used on clothing, banners etc.
Along with staff from Trauma Teds we will be building the platform that the chest must lay upon, a detailed plan from the Dark Magician of the chest and platform has arrived and must be followed to the letter, Aaron only has a short time to escape the inferno the last thing he wants is an unstable platform that allows the chest to collapse further into the inferno.
To make matters slightly more complicated Aaron Isted the dark magician is on tour of the USA and wont be back until early November so we cannot practice or make amendments, it's a one shot attempt. (Crossy fingers).
Studio Chaos is the umbrella Studio for the artists Tony Trowbridge, Veronica Grimm and the Graffiti Artist Major Tuat.

Hand crafted book by artist tony trowbridge Transmutation.

transmutation 8x8 inches, cardboard and material, mixed media/ acrylic.

Front cover and extract from book. approx 10 pages.

Melting Time sculpture by artist tony trowbridge

6x3inches ceramic and driftwood.

Bespoke sculpt on a driftwood base, the driftwood i picked up on the shores of South Island New Zealand. this is Melting Time No6

Servitor enters tunnel complex by artist tony trowbridge.

Command with no external sensors and now an ever growing number of hull breaches orders all the remaining able servitors to leave the stricken ship and try to find some way to the surface.

The water pressure and fragile condition of the hull after the battle and entry into the planet has left command with no alternative but to abandon ship.

The only surviving biological's are all in the recreation level, they are all stable in their skin suits but cannot live indefinitely where they are.

The priority is to find a safe area on this planet until a rescue is mounted.

mixed media hand stretched natural cotton 28x25inches.

Surreal Ogre melting Time No4 by Artist Tony Trowbridge

Mixed media/clay melting Time inspired by dali. Bespoke handcrafted sculpture No4

4inches tall.

Melting time No5 by artist tony Trowbridge

Bespoke sculpture, clay and mixed media, Dali inspired Melting Time. Framed 5.5x6.5inches

Hand crafted book by artist tony trowbridge

10x12inches hand stretched cotton over cardboard, stitched, hand written and illustrated .

Inti Caca's journal. 12pages.

Dali inspired bespoke sculpture melting time by artist tony trowbridge

clay sculpture on driftwood, melting time No3.
4.5inches tall

Dali inspired sculpture No2 by artist tony trowbridge

This melting clock face i have worked into some driftwood and mounted on wooden base to make it more surreal i have incorporated a waspy insect for the watch face to lean against.
3inch tall. mixed media/ acrylic.

Bespoke sculpture Dali inspired by artist tony trowbridge

I was sculpting a small scream figure to place on some driftwood when i saw Salvadore dali's melting watch faces and thought I could sculpt some of those and maybe build up some three dimensional ideas incorporating his watch idea.
This one is made from clay and mounted on driftwood. 7x5inches acrylic/mixed media

Hand crafted book, My Stupid Cat by artist tony trowbridge.

My Stupid Cat is based on real life events carried out by the two cats that control the living space I call home. This is the second in the series and runs for 32 pages, is 7x7inches square in size and is made from recycled materials. Hand painted and hand written.

Inti Caca and the other 27 survivor's set foot on Inka soil by Artist Tony Trowbridge.

Tapestry of the Inka warriors setting off to meet Inti Caca.
EXRACT from INTI CACA'S Journal:
I am on my knees choking on the black acrid smoke that is funnelling down the corridor, when I get lower I can just about gulp in some much needed oxygen.
The Klaxons klax. flashing lights flash it all helps to confuse me as I paniKK.
I am searching for a bolt hole somewhere that may afford me some safety. I feel the panik, it is alive consuming me. I am close to comatose shut down,
I am running blindly, I smack my head off a stanchion, career into a distraught servitor and get all tangled up in it's flaying arms.
I push it aside, I am now swearing profusely and choking,
At last I find a locker room and fumble with the chemical tag id thanking god it was not an iris ident.
I literally throw myself in gulping down lung busting amounts of oxygen, even before I have stopped sliding, skin suits are leaping toward me, the first completely engulfs me,the others bounce off and disappointed go back to their designated locker spaces, I am now cocooned, safe. even a direct nuclear hit on the ship would not kill me. I would be ejected into cold space where my suit will try to keep me alive but eventually I would Starve. Sometimes it's better to be fried instantaneously but not today, today I live.

Mixed media, recycled board, hand stretched natural cotton, acrylic, 31x21inches.

Sacsahuaman tapestry discovery by Artist Tony Trowbridge.

Historians are trying to ascertain the authenticity of the oldest yet found tapestry depicting the birth of the Inca empire.
Doctor Fiona Mcneil from the Californian Institute of Inca Tribes has put forward a strong case, whereby the Tapestry could well be showing us the walk made by Inti Caca and the other twenty seven survivors from the great battle in the sky.
There are twenty eight figures with pictographs of the amazing materials, tools, and weapons that they brought with themselves on that first fateful encounter with the pre Inca tribes.
26x36 mixed media/acrylic on recycled plastic board, hand stretched and ripped natural cotton.

Hand crafted display stand by artist tony trowbridge

Display stand No6, recycled materials, 12inches tall.

Hand crafted display stand by artist Tony Trowbridge

Display stand No5 not many left to post.

Remember hand crafted from recyclable materials .

Hand crafted display stand from recycled materials by artist tony trowbridge

And yet another, still 12inches tall, they all are.