“If it wasn’t for the handover with Tom, then this opportunity wouldn’t have come about,” he explained.
“I just wanted the day to come around so quickly, I’ve been holding it to myself for so long… so I just could not wait to get it out there.”
Mr Elliott said the A1 canvas took somewhere in the region of 60 to 80 hours to complete.
He cast the original Tom Cruise photo on to canvas, created a stencil and then filled in the charcoal and some red paint for the lettering.