Jody thomas is a bristol based artist working since the late 1980s who ranks amongst the likes of inkie cheo and bansky thomas considers himself an aerosol artist rather than strictly graffiti taking the spray medium to new levels drawing inspiration from fashion and film thomas creates prints of strong graphic character often employing a film noir aesthetic in his female portraiture shush depicts only the mouth and nose of a woman strands of hair and the edges of her eyelashes