Ant Carver Street Art in East and South London

Street artist Ant Carver, who is based on London, created a lot of portraits across east London back in 2016 and 2017. In 2019, I had captured some photographs of a couple of paste-ups that were spread around Brick Lane that year, but I did not get to capture too many that year as I wasn't making many trips in to see the street art. On a street art tour in Penge at the end of last year, I photographed another mural from the artist on a wall. The style used in these is illustration with greyscale portraits imposed with colourful crayon-like markings drawn across them.

The above mural located in Penge was painted in the summer of 2017, so the colourful markings across the greyscale portrait are appearing faded.

The artist is currently focused on a new style with more realistic portraits in recent work, such as the one that appeared on Hanbury Street a couple of years ago.