Banksy - Love is in the Air, Flower Thrower, GOLD - West Country Prince – WCP - Iconic Banksy Reproduction

This screen print is produced by the elusive West Country Prince using the exact methods as Banksy’s early works; silk screen printed by hand onto the correct original 300 GSM Woven paper, to the correct specification. This is not a cheap digital re-print. It is the correct dimensions and colours as the original screen print – the print size is 700 x 500 MM. It is stamped on the reverse with the WEST COUNTRY PRINCE logo to prevent fraud.

The Woven paper used for this piece matches the original Banksy Girl with Red Balloon. There are flecks and fibres within the paper which compliment the stencilled outlines of the original.

Title: Love is in the Air

Medium: Hand pulled screen print

Paper: 300 gsm Wove Paper

Size: 70 x 50 cm

Edition: /750

Year: 2021

Numbered: Yes; There is a red West Country Prince Stamp and “Banksy Copy” stamp on rear of print.

Framed: Unframed

Please note that this product is not endorsed by Banksy or Banksy's Pest Control organisation which clamps down quickly on any copyright abuse of Banksy imagery. The fact that the West Country Prince has been allowed to sell these pieces over many years has prompted speculation that he or she is an old friend of the street artist, or even the artist himself.

Love Is In The Air, also known as Flower Thrower or LIITA, depicts a young man, dressed as a militant, wearing a backwards baseball cap and a bandana to mask the lower half of his face. He is caught in the middle of throwing a bouquet of flowers as if it were a grenade or Molotov cocktail. Despite the apparent aggression in his posture, the figure is getting ready to launch a universal symbol of love and peace as opposed to a weapon. This print exemplifies both Banksy’s formal artistic style as well as his powerful political activism, as it represents a powerful call for peace.

Typical of Banksy’s socially charged imagery, Love Is In The Air demonstrates the artist’s sustained interest in the absurdity of war, as well as the arbitrariness that can derive from unequal power dynamics. Indeed, while the spray-painted protagonist is armed with blooming plants and nothing else, the forces surrounding him seem to operate from heavier weaponry, placing him in a position of immediate danger.

The first versions of Love Is In The Air Banksy did in London are long gone. The most well-known version was executed in 2003 as a large mural in Jerusalem shortly after the construction of the West Bank Wall, a 760km wall that separates Palestine from Israel. It is also featured on the cover of Banksy‘s book Wall and Piece.