This Donald Trump mural in Glasgow became a viral sensation
It features the U.S President behind bars, with the prison door and railings made up by a black and white version of stars and stripes.
With Mr Trump visiting Ayrshire and Aberdeen this weekend he posted an image of his work on social media with the message 'welcome to Scotland' which quickly went viral.
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By early on Sunday afternoon it had received over 7,000 likes on Threads and attracted dozens of comments and messages.
Mr Rawson SAID: "I did the mural at the tail end of last year.
"I walk home from work through the Gorbals and I noticed this wall with some bars on it and decided to build the American flag around the bars.
"Using something that is already there was the inspiration for the rest of the artwork, so separately I did a painting on wood of Donald Trump so I could fasten it behind the bars.
"It's been there since the tail-end of last year but yesterday I put up a picture on Threads just saying 'welcome to Scotland' and it's gone absolutely crazy.
MAGA in Glasgow's Gorbals, by Ashley Rawson (Image: Ashley Rawson) MAGA in Glasgow's Gorbals, by Ashley Rawson (Image: Ashley Rawson) "I've had loads of comments from Americans so it seems to have spread over there, most of the comments are really nice with lots of complimentary things about Scotland and the fact he's not getting a good welcome!
"If you do artwork you're kind of caught in a bind because in the past you might have put it in a gallery for people to see it but now we're kind of in a bind with social media where you put stuff up you've worked hard on and think, 'that might get some interest'.
"This is the first time it's really gone through the roof."
The act of creating the work was a multi-day process, and Mr Rawson initially feared his creation wouldn't last long.
He explains: "The first day I'd kind of sketched it out and when I came back someone had graffitied over it, the second day the same thing happened.
"It kept happening, and on the last day when I'd finishing it I thought, 'obviously this isn't going to last'.
"But once it was complete it's been untouched, it kept getting tagged and graffitied over but once it was finished it's been left so maybe it's people going, 'oh that's quite good, I'll leave that'.
"I did one earlier in the year called 'Christ on a Bike' on the legal graffiti wall on the Clyde Walkway and that lasted about two weeks.
"It's been quite an amazing 24 hours, the messages from American people have been almost universally nice.
"They're totally on the folks here's side, there have been a few questionable ones which I'm ignoring!"
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