Banksy claimed mural in Finsbury Park as his own on Monday and artwork has now been damaged
A mural of a tree painted by Banksy on a residential building in north London has been defaced with white paint two days after it first appeared.
The artwork in Finsbury Park features rough brushstrokes of green paint on a wall near a tree, giving an abstract appearance of foliage, with a stencil of a person holding a pressure hose next to it.
Images shared on social media on Wednesday showed that the mural on Hornsey Road appeared to have been partly covered.
Banksy claimed the mural as his own in an Instagram post on Monday after it was speculated to be one of his.
One local resident, Matt McKenna, told the BBC: “It has got lots of people talking and it is a bit of London which is a bit forgotten at times.
