These pictures show the moment Banksy climbed into a cherry picker wearing a face mask and hard hat as he prepared to paint his latest street art on a wall in west London.

Footage captured by CCTV cameras showed the cherry picker van with two men dressed in orange high-vis clothing and helmets.

One of the men,who is masked,is believed to be elusive guerrilla artist Banksy,famed for his politically themed works. Accompanied by a friend,he is seen in the back of the cherry picker van with the two locked in conversation.

The footage was captured at around 5am on Monday. A painting showing a goat balancing on top of some masonry appeared on the exterior wall of an engineering company near Kew Bridge that morning.

Bosses from Boss & Co,which builds exclusive guns,told MailOnline that they noticed the new artwork when they arrived for work.

Banksy's Sweep It Under the Carpet mural,which appeared in 2006 in Chalk Farm,London

He is also known for his headline-making stunts,such as leaving an inflatable doll dressed as a Guantanamo prisoner in Disneyland,California,and hanging a version of the Mona Lisa - but with a smiley face - in the Louvre,Paris.

His artwork Girl With Balloon famously self-destructed in a Sotheby's London saleroom when it descended into a shredder in 2018. 

That piece was then renamed Love Is In The Bin,which in 2021 sold for £18.6 million,a record for Banksy's work.

Last October,MailOnline reported how a former Labour Parliamentary lobbyist Joy Millward,originally from the West Midlands,is said to be married to Banksy.

She worked as a researcher for Labour MP Austin Mitchell,who died in 2021,and later set up Principle Affairs,a lobby group for charities. 

Ms Millward is thought to have met Mr Gunningham in 2003 before they married in Las Vegas in 2006.

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