Earlier on today as we passed through Leake Street, London’s most prominent legal painting walls and were delighted to find a work from the exceptionally talented artist JXC still up and unmolested since its creation on Friday. Creating an incredible hyper-realistic grey-scale portrait of a male subject covered in a mass of tattoos, several of […]Read Post ›
It’s a new month and yet again the Jealous Gallery has a new piece on their roof’s feature wall as a part of the ongoing Jealous Rooftop Mural Project, which just goes from strength to strength as the months pass. On this occasion the work is from visiting Japanese artist Masagon, who flew over just to paint […]Read Post ›
Following on from Airborne Mark’s recent wave of Origami Emoji based pieces around London (covered here), the artist was back out in Camden Town last Saturday to add the sixth and newest work in the series of works based upon Emoji’s from social media platforms, placed upon scrunched up paper, allowing Airborne Mark the chance to work […]Read Post ›
A few weekends back we at London Calling Blog were fortunate enough to get the opportunity to meet up with visiting Austrian Ceramicist and Street Artist ChinaGirl Tile whilst on a whistle-stop visit through London, which saw her place up six new works around East, North & South London and additionally afforded us the opportunity to discuss […]Read Post ›
Over the last couple of weeks since the opening of his first solo show at BSMT Space (covered here) Street Artist Fanakapan has been involved in a whirlwind of activity putting up some five works around East London. Most notable is the manner in which having put on an exhibition which showcased the style that Fanakapan has […]Read Post ›
Fanakapan is one of our favourite artists on the London and even UK and global Street Art scene, someone we have admired for a very long time and it has been an absolute pleasure to witness the way in which he relentlessly strives to push the boundaries and focus of his work. So it was indeed […]Read Post ›
Yesterday we here at London Calling Blog were fortunate enough to find Street Artist Dan Kitchener at work on his latest piece in Shoreditch. Setting to rework a spot that previously hosted one of his ‘Liquid Lights’ pieces for the last year, Dank set to create this beautiful work entitled ‘Butterfly’ based on one his geisha paintings […]Read Post ›
At the weekend Street Artist Ant Carver was out in Dalston creating his latest mural, with one of his beautiful and colourful portraits placed up on the outside wall of the Tina We Salute You Cafe in King Henry’s Walk, N1. Ant Carver’s style is very distinct, comprising the colourful background taking an abstract form, constructed from an […]Read Post ›
A couple of weekends back saw a large-scale Paint Jam in Mile End for Endangered 13, an event set to raise awareness for endangered species through beautiful and at times poignant artworks. The event was put together by Louis Masai, an artist whose output is solely orientated focused upon such causes, along with the Human Nature […]Read Post ›
Last week saw a brief visit from Finnish Street Artist Salla Ikonen, who whilst over hit up a trio of delightful works about the East End and Camden Town. Her works reflect on the wildlife and nature of her native Scandinavia often incorporating portraits packed with emotion. Which is what she has expressed in her trio of […]Read Post ›
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