A couple of weeks back saw a flood of activity around Brick Lane with several artists painting in the days leading up to the Moniker Art Fair 2017 which took place last weekend. One of such artists was Ben Slow who created this striking portrait entitled ‘Olive Branch’ comprised from a minimal colour palette which is prevalent […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks back saw a flood of activity around Brick Lane with several artists painting in the days leading up to the Moniker Art Fair 2017 which took place last weekend. One of such artists was visiting Belgian Street Artist Jaune who laid out a series of five fantastic miniature stencil scenes which depict […]Read Post ›
Well it’s been a while, but a few weeks back saw saw the arrival in London of Street Artist Banksy’s latest stencil works, and it has unsurprisingly attracted quite a bit of attention. The duo of works both paying homage New York Street Artist pioneer Jean-Michel Basquiat were placed up just around the corner from the […]Read Post ›
A few weeks back saw Brighton based Street Artist Snub23 visit London and take to Brick Lane in order to paint his latest mural in the capital, with a fantastic work entitled ‘Trust The Machine’. The piece created through a combination of stencil techniques for the industrial block background and freehand techniques for his series of heads which […]Read Post ›
Well it has taken a while to process all this, but a few weekends back but we here at London Calling Blog had the immense pleasure of having the opportunity to regain access an abandoned building in Soho, Westminster. Being the same venue we took to for the ‘Brokedown Palace’ Paint Jam celebrating 2 years of London Calling Blog in […]Read Post ›
Over the last weekend from the 6-9th October the Moniker Art Fair returned to East London for its eighth consecutive year, in the most appropriate location to host such a large expose of Street Art in a gallery setting, namely The Old Truman Brewery at the heart of Brick Lane. The event was yet again […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks back saw Brazilian Street Artist visit London and find the time to paint a beautiful mural in Shoreditch. Guimaraes’ style draws it influence from the Brazilian Naïve art scene of the 1940s, dominated by music, movement and full of colour. It is through such realms Guimaraes sets to take his audience away to a […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks back saw some 20 writers and artists take to Fleur De Lis Street, Shoreditch, for a Paint Jam which has transformed this little alleyway which connects East London to the City entirely for the better. Working to a uniform blue backdrop a whole host of letter works and characters now decorate […]Read Post ›
Street Artist Ketones6000 was pretty bust the other week, painting a pair of beautiful works around Shoreditch and Brick Lane, both featuring bees with plant life and in one case incorporating striking grey-scale portraiture which is proving very prevalent in his output at current. Very much a beautiful pair of works and an artist we are delighted […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks back saw Spanish born, but London based, Street Artist Maikel Walkman make his first visit to Penge to place up a fantastic little addition to SE20 for our SprayExhibition20 Community Mural Project. Taking to a rather quiet alleyway along Southey Street to paint a metal window panel, Maikel Walkman set to paint one of […]Read Post ›
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