Last week marked the completion of a superb mural by Street Artist Jane Mutiny in Highams Park, E17 as part of the ‘Paint Your London’ Festival currently underway in Walthamstow, and put on by Wood Street Walls. Taking to the side wall of a residential house along a canal path, the setting for Jane Mutiny’s subject of choice was just perfect for its location. Painting a large-scale hyper-real depiction of a Barn Owl in flight, it really is impressive how she has captured the feeling of softness about her subject as it seemingly flies from the wall clutching her now trademark heart design. Certainly an impressive piece and fantastic to see how Jane Mutiny has stepped up to painting her largest work to date, a great job indeed from an artist passionate about her cause and subjects.
This work can be found in Lancaster Road, Walthamstow, in the Highams Park area, and was put up with support from Wood Street Walls as part of the ‘Paint Your London’ event which is campaigning for more affordable workspace for artists in London, an erstwhile cause and one that in the process is really bringing some colour and life to this corner of London. On the matter Mark Clack at Wood Street Walls stated:
“We created Paint Your London with the support of both street artists in our local area & others like Ronzo to raise awareness of the lack of affordable studio space. By 2020, 30% of the current workspace will disappear. More needs to be done, and I hope our project in a very small way will inspire others groups to do the same. Our project is about creating affordable artist workspace which is sustainable when rates start to rise to protect the working environments of creatives that get pushed out, after they make an area desirable, and provides a service to the community by hosting free periodic workshops”.
“The perception is that street art can be seen to be connected to wave of gentrification in areas that have long gone under the radar. I think if people look harder, where others may use urban art as a purely commercial tool to generate revenue for large corporates to sell products, we are using it to promote how artists and creatives of all types can make an area unique, while having a clear model of susstainability and an ethical purpose. Our supporters of the event understand that works of art are not giant billboards.
“The urban art we’re helping facilitate just won’t be able to continue without a base to host our community workshops and a home for artists in the area and who are being priced out of other boroughs. Otherwise we’re just promoting the negative aspects that gentrification brings & it will be like a giant vanity project for the few – benefiting from creative output, but not really help support it. We’d rather stop than become an entity like this.”
The event and painting which will continue over the next two weeks and we will be reporting on more from this event very soon.
Jane Mutiny at work.
Jane Mutiny at work.
Jane Mutiny at work.
The stunning finished mural.
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This is an amazing piece of work! So well thought out and brilliantly articulated!
I can see from the photos that you’ve been to the location but is Lancaster Road correct? I was there today to find the Louis Masai and this doesn’t look familiar. And I’m kicking myself for not checking your blog first as it looks like I was near this stunner and missed it. I remember walking by Highams something.
Its at River Walk E4 in Highams Park ( half way down Winchester Rd)
That should be Winchester Road (E4), not Lancaster Road. If you get the 212 bus from Walthamstow Central you’ll get a good view of this mural on your way toward Highams Park station. It’s about half way down Winchester Road, right by a zebra crossing and bus stop.