{"id":260579,"date":"2025-07-13T03:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260579\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T03:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T03:32:11","slug":"mystery-suffolk-banksy-artist-known-as-the-hat-who-leaves-pictures-outside-cafes-and-pubs-identified-by-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260579\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery &#8216;Suffolk Banksy&#8217; artist known as &#8216;The Hat&#8217; who leaves pictures outside cafes and pubs &#8216;identified by fans&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FANS reckon an artist dubbed the Suffolk Banksy is singer Ed Sheeran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mystery dauber \u201cThe Hat\u201d has left pictures outside cafes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/pubs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pubs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/charity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charity<\/a> shops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ed Sheeran standing in front of one of his paintings.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"PA\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eba60151-3024-4703-81e3-8df7eac4f926.jpg\" data-caption=\"Fans reckon an artist dubbed the Suffolk Banksy is singer Ed Sheeran\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eba60151-3024-4703-81e3-8df7eac4f926.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Fans reckon an artist dubbed the Suffolk Banksy is singer Ed SheeranCredit: PA<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ed Sheeran sitting on a bench in front of three of his paintings.\" height=\"650\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"PA\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/editorial-use-ed-sheeran-exhibition-1008949042.jpg\" data-caption=\"Shape of You hitmaker Ed has launched an art show under his own name at Heni Gallery in London\u2019s Soho\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/editorial-use-ed-sheeran-exhibition-1008949042.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Shape of You hitmaker Ed has launched an art show under his own name at Heni Gallery in London\u2019s SohoCredit: PA<\/p>\n<p>Finders are urged to auction them for charity \u2014 and so far thousands of pounds has been raised.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Hat also sells abstract paintings online for as much as \u00a31,900.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now tiny Framlingham Library \u2014 in the market town near where Ed lives with wife Cherry and their kids \u2014 is exhibiting more work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One post on the Visit Framlingham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> page reads: \u201cHmmm, wonder who it could be?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A painting on show of three hedgehogs will be sold to raise cash for the library.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Library manager Vivia Bamford said: \u201cWe\u2019re absolutely delighted to be hosting this exhibition. It\u2019s all ready to go and the artwork looks wonderful in our gallery space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really worth a visit so I hope to welcome hundreds of people in the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so grateful to The Hat \u2013 whoever they are \u2013 for choosing us as location to display their work and for donating a painting and a percentage of sales to support our library.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Shape of You <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/hitmaker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hitmaker<\/a> Ed, 34, yesterday launched an art show under his own name at Heni Gallery in London\u2019s Soho.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so grateful to The Hat \u2013 whoever they are \u2013 for choosing us as location to display their work and for donating a painting and a percentage of sales to support our library.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moment mystery man is caught painting Banksy-like mural hours before real artist completed his trail<\/p>\n<p>The Shape of You hitmaker is already an established artist and yesterday launched another gallery of work under his own name at London\u2019s Heni Gallery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That collection will raise money for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/ed-sheeran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Sheeran<\/a> Foundation \u2013 which funds music lessons for kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kindly Ed is known for making donations to charity shops and one woman once snapped up a pair of his boxers for \u00a310.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FANS reckon an artist dubbed the Suffolk Banksy is singer Ed Sheeran.\u00a0 Mystery dauber \u201cThe Hat\u201d has left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[16466,4021,4020,15791,381,12450,4022,10582,393,77,560,600,897,257,210,711,1889,820,182,10721,118,449,1470,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-260579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art-and-design","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-banksy","12":"tag-bristol","13":"tag-charity","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-ed-sheeran","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-exclusives","19":"tag-facebook","20":"tag-jobs","21":"tag-london","22":"tag-mental-health-and-illness","23":"tag-pop-music","24":"tag-pubs","25":"tag-section-newsuk-news","26":"tag-social-media","27":"tag-suffolk","28":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","29":"tag-tiktok","30":"tag-twitter","31":"tag-uk","32":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114843821523767400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}