I'm getting on, I've attempted suicide twice and pulled my life around. I studied arts at Brighton years back before getting stuck in a loop of design contracts that tore out my soul. I've spent a few years looking for it, I've found it, it's damaged and rather angry.

I'm a fake, an Indoor Street Artist, I don't jump the tracks, I don't paste, I don't stencil. I'm making 10 limited edition works for my first series, you can get them as prints at http://imagekind.me - if you want to know more about the art visit http://paulbaines.co.uk - if you want to read my rants go to http://paulbaines.co.uk/blog/

Before you start I was called Bainsey at school, and no it wasn't a public school, it was a grammar (do they even exist these days?), we didn't pay fees and I failed miserably with 3 'O' Levels. After that I managed to blag myself through an art 'A' Level, a foundation course and even a degree at Brighton. I've had to blag everything for as long as I could remember, I probably met my partner Chris that way, she's still nodding as I rant on now.

My work for now is print, soon it will be paint and as large as I can manage until I can afford a double-door garage studio. I've done nothing but digital art for over a decade and the screen of my Mac has given me cancer of the face, or it probably will if I don't get away soon. I know I've probably got less time than most here, I've taken afew overdoses, spent a decade on almsot every substance under the sun, I'm on a rush as you can tell, but at least it's a natural one now, bar the cigs and tea.

I do not worship celebrity, or fame, I distrust power, and seem to be the only artist in the UK who dares say it, we are living under a corrupted democracy. The power is most definitely seeping back to the top. The Brits used to riot, they used to strike, they didn't fear authority as much as they do now. We are entering a totalitarian state. Think of me like a cheap old homeless Dalai Lama without the respect for spirituality. I need you to buy my work so I can escape to France and leave behind the secret police, and insult the British power structure more. America is easy, they are too far away, if I started on the monarchy or Gordon Brown now I'd be banged up and it's easier to get smack than paints and brushes in the slammer.

Okay that's enough for now - come enter social commentary hell with me at http://paulbaines.co.uk