Art on the run

These huge paintings are the work of a secretive graffiti artist who travels the world tagging walls, often painting his quirky pieces in a hurry to avoid arrest.

Chinese-born DALeast lives in South Africa but spends six months of the year travelling and has tagged walls on nearly every continent.

His unusual paintings, which are sometimes hundreds of feet across, can look 3D and as if they are created out of thousands of tiny metal shards, but in fact they have been spray-painted onto a flat surface.

DALeast's works can be seen in Cape Town, Miami, New York and London's Brick Lane, as well as his native China.

The 29-year-old, who keeps his real name a secret, has been making art since he was three.

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