{"id":644967,"date":"2025-12-20T21:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644967\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:35:14","slug":"street-artist-catman-paints-home-alone-stars-kevin-harry-and-marv-on-whitstable-bridge-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644967\/","title":{"rendered":"Street artist Catman paints Home Alone stars Kevin, Harry and Marv on Whitstable bridge for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A street artist dubbed \u2018Kent\u2019s Banksy\u2019 has been showcasing his skills again with a tribute to a Christmas classic.<\/p>\n<p>Catman, from Whitstable, has sprayed an image of Home Alone stars on a bridge in the seaside town.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1575 1532\" alt=\"Catman has painted the stars of Home Alone in Whitstable. Picture: Catman\/Facebook\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"N4RWNZV12J7XDL0C6KDF.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.03\"\/>Catman has painted the stars of Home Alone in Whitstable. Picture: Catman\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The quirky creator has painted an image of the witty protagonist, Kevin McCallister, on the Oxford Street bridge, near Kakawa chocolate shop.<\/p>\n<p>It also features the famous \u2018wet bandits\u2019 of Harry and Marv standing directly behind.<\/p>\n<p>The artist said: \u201cMerry Christmas, you filthy animal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy latest street piece and my first Christmas-themed painting in 13 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The painting has already gone down well with residents across the town.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting online, Cheryl Louise Keel said: \u201cJust shown my autistic son &#8211; who loves the film. Guess where we&#8217;re off to in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Wickham added: \u201cWow, absolutely fantastic &#8211; captured their faces brilliantly. Ya filthy artist have a good Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1990 film, which sees Kevin played by Macaulay Caulkin, has become a festive favourite.<\/p>\n<p>It sees eight-year-old Kevin accidentally left behind when his family leaves for France &#8211; a move which almost has drastic consequences when the two thieves break into his home.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Catman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/canterbury\/news\/kent-s-banksy-paints-tribute-to-much-loved-local-celebrity-331528\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also sprayed an image of Gallivanting Griffin<\/a> in Northgate, Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1034 865\" alt=\"Catman painted local celebrity cat Gallivanting Griffin in Canterbury in October. Picture: Catman\/Facebook\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"IQ5VKNTUYZDYFOC4ED2M.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.20\"\/>Catman painted local celebrity cat Gallivanting Griffin in Canterbury in October. Picture: Catman\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The moggie, a grey-and-white rescue, died on October 6 after being run over on the University of Kent campus, where he loved to visit.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of fans, who followed his dedicated Facebook page, expressed their heartbreak at the adventurous cat\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>So loved was the former stray that thousands of pounds was raised in a fundraiser by his owner, Rachel Craft, to fund a memorial bench in the university grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A street artist dubbed \u2018Kent\u2019s Banksy\u2019 has been showcasing his skills again with a tribute to a Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,35745,4022,77,495,18943,83509,16,15,15589],"class_list":{"0":"post-644967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-kent","14":"tag-quirky","15":"tag-syndicate","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-whitstable"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115754049368253152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644967","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=644967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}