It has been a few months since we have seen any fresh London works from Street Artist Otto Schade, however in the last couple of weeks he has made up for that with a fantastic set of four works placed up in Park Street, Croydon. Otto’s painting styles range from the abstract and surreal. Working […]Read Post ›
A few weeks back saw the conclusion of Street Artist Dreph’s ‘You Are Enough’ series of portraits looking at the idea of female empowerment through his subjects, all of which are people he knows or has met. So we though we would take a look at the ten works that comprise the impressive series, nine of which can […]Read Post ›
A few weeks back saw London receive a visit from South African Street Artist Sonny who placed up a spectacular and poignant mural for his ‘To The Bone’ Project which sets to draw awareness to as well as raise funds for endangered species around the world before it is to late. To this end over the […]Read Post ›
Playing catch up here with this trio of works by Raphael Gindt placed up in Shoreditch and Croydon a few of weeks back now. Hailing from Luxembourg and taking to painting on the streets as a teenager in 2016 he launched the ‘Revive16’ painting production by painting his trademark silhouette portraits in a more abstract and expressive way as […]Read Post ›
A few weeks back we were fortunate enough to catch Croydon’s very own Street Artist Morgazmik take to the Croydon Water Works in Matthew’s Yard, a beautiful building constructed in 1866 to add a funky paste-up design to the boards adorning the former entrance. Certainly bringing some character to this other wise displaced looking and […]Read Post ›
A month or so back saw Street Artist ArtBelieve take to Croydon to lay up a pair of fantastic geometric abstract designs that certainly perk up this market street, with one piece on a boarded up shop front and the second most impressively flowing up a set of stairs making for one of the most […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks back saw stencil-based Street Artist Dotmasters take to Croydon to paint this fantastic 4 layer half tone portrait of Liz Taylor – constructed from a series of ‘Dots ‘ using the CMYK colour palette (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) – as used in printing. Certainly interesting to see Dotmasters return to the […]Read Post ›
So a couple of weekends back we had the good fortune of spending a long weekend in Croydon with some 36 artists reworking the vast majority of the ‘Arts Quarter’ around St. George’s Walk to put on the ‘Any Colour You Like’ Paint Jam organised by ourselves and put together with support from friend of the blog and […]Read Post ›
This morning in our series of reviews of the last year we are going to take a look back at the year of Street Art and Graffiti in Croydon. It’s been another good year in Croydon after the flying start it had through 2015. Croydon’s Arts Quarter has continued to receive a steady stream of new additions and played […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks back saw Rich Simmons return to Croydon’s Arts Quarter to create a collaborative fusion of Pop Art & London Graffiti with tags from Gasp and Dice entitled ‘Rooftop Romance’. The work as the title suggests features a couple embracing aloft a New York rooftop scene in his distinct comic book/Pop Art style. The addition […]Read Post ›
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