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Street art by Jay Kaes is located on one of the prominent walls at Hanbury Street off of Brick Lane, and this artwork has been here for a few months now. Jay Kaes is a Spanish artist who relocated to the UK, so a lot of his work has appeared in London. His style is to use bold colours that are illustrative, and the work mainly features female portaits. His work speaks about social situations and technology as well as contaning elements of popular culture or comics. 

I also captured an older piece that I had not yet published here, and this one was located near Allen Gardens. It uses bright colours with a multimedia colour background showing pixelated and "transparent" elements. The female face has a mobile phone attached to her eyes, and social media actions are placed on it. The prominence of social media and mobile phones is common in the artist's work.

For more work by Jay Kaes on this blog, see the links below:

Recent Jay Kaes Street Art in London 2022
Street Art by Jay Kaes
Meeting of Styles Wall 2018
Jay Kaes Refreshes Pedley Street's Street Art
Jay Kaes and Falko One Murals on Old Street
Jay Kaes on Pedley Street
Early January Street Art and All-Female Paint-up in Blackall Street
Mural on Old Street by Kaes and Core246
The Final Days - Leonard Street and Blackall Street (Street Art)
'Meeting of Styles' London Street Art Festival 2014

When I was in Southampton recently, I noticed a new mural by street artist Nerone. The mural covers two walls of a series of buildings located opposite the train station, and with the windows and the grooved rendering of the building, this would have been a difficult piece to paint. Nerone is a street artist from France who often uses floral illustration and also neon. This was painted in December of 2023.

More street art by street artist Nerone on this blog can be seen below:

Nerone Shine Your Light at Zetland House
Eine and Nerone Collaborate on "Unity" Street Art in Penge
Fanakapan and Nerone Collaborate on "Neighbourhood Watch" in Penge
Nerone on Kingsland Road
Nerone Paints Great Eastern Street
Street Artist: Nerone

Mompesson House is located in the centre of Salisbury on the cathedral close, and it dates from the start of 1700. It was leased to several families, and it was last inhabited in 1975. A female member family who lived in the house until 1939 enjoyed painting, so several of her paintings are located on the walls. The last people to live in the house was an architect who modernised it and added plumbing and electricity. The house has been opened to the public by National Trust since 1977. I visited the house with my friend at the end of July, and we had a beautiful warm day. We arrived a few minutes before the house opened.

There was a lot of information about the servants in the house. The servants lived in their own servant's wing next to the house in a red brick building and in attics. In larger houses, they would live in the basements. 

Right inside the house is the entrance hall with rooms and a staircase connected to it. There would have been one or more footmen to receive guests. The hallway was always built to be impressive, and the plasterwork was added shortly after the house was constructed.

The large drawing room is the largest room in the house and would have acted as a hub for entertaining and activities. The ceilings are high, and this would have allowed paintings to be displayed. This was the best-decorated room to show off. There would have been music performed in this room, and a doorway to the smaller drawing room (Parlour) at the front of the house would have been a place for people to withdraw from the noise and activities. 

The dining room would have been "the best parlour" and set up for dining depending on guests. 

Upstairs there is a small room at the top of the stairs and then two rooms connecting on both sides. Both of these rooms have views over the front of the house, the cathedral and close.

At the back of the house and on the ground floor is a small room tucked away before the exit to the garden. This is the library. It was re-painted in the original colours.

There is a spacious garden with flowers, and there's a stable and some other outbuildings.

Mompesson House was a nice visit, and there is a cafe and a bookshop in the garden buildings. 

David Shillinglaw is a street artist who has painted many times in London. The most recently mural I saw from him was actually in Salisbury, and this is a large-scale mural located along the riverside on Fisherton Street.  Shillinglaw's artwork is inspired by tribal, abstract, and pop art. His work is always very colourful. This new mural in Salisbury seeks to restore faith in the local community.

More posts on this blog with David Shillinglaw's work is located here:

David Shillinglaw New Mural at Zetland House
Street Art: David Shillinglaw
Street Art Round-Up to July 2015
Malarky Returns to Create Street Art on East London Shutters

Tristan Menard is a street artist and illustrator based in London, and he has worked for some big brands. His art style varies, but this blocky illustrative style shown in the below photographs has been used on a few walls by the artist. The illustrations use thick and bold lines and shapes with minimum detail. All of the walls were painted in early 2023. All of the work is near Shoreditch High Street station or Brick Lane.

This summer, Oxford is hosting a public charity art sculpture trail across its many streets and locations. OxTrail is the name of the trail, and it features around 40 large-sized ox sculptures and several more smaller ones for people to find. I set out on a journey to find all of the large-sized sculptures, and that took me from one end of Oxford to the other (literally!) all on foot. The sculptures are in place until the end of August, and the trail aims to raise for charity Sobell House Hospice and is managed by Wild in Art. All of the sculptures are painted in unique styles by different artists.

I spent a day looking at all of the sculptures, a few of which were located outside of the city centre. I enjoyed searching for them.

The sculpture trail runs until the end of August, and the farewell weekend takes place in early September where all of the sculptures can be seen together.

Abraham.O is a street artist from El Salvador. He paints realistic portraits in greyscale, and he often adds touches of colour to the artwork, such as an item of clothing or background. The subjects in the portraits are interesting in appearance or tell some story about themselves. I captured the following street art by AbrahamO. over the past couple of years. He paints in East London, Penge, and Leake Street.

Street artist Otto Schade (also known as osch) recently painted on Brick Lane and in Camden this year. The new street art features the artist's "ribbon" style. The heart below was photographed on Brick Lane on a wall that the artist always updates. 

The other two pieces are in Camden and on adjoining walls. The first features two parrots facing each other, which makes a heart shape.

The second piece is a tiger.

I've previously posted about Otto Schade's street art in the following posts:

Otto Schade - Bull in a China Shop and Other
Otto Schade - The Viaduct and Other
Otto Schade on Farnshaw Street - Eva's Green Apple
New Snoopy Street Art and Other Street Art by Otto Schade in East London
Otto Schade Paints Donna Summer on "Bull In A China Shop" in Shoreditch and Others
Otto Schade Murals on Kingsland Road
Long Street - Otto Schade, CodeFC, The Krah
Street Art by Otto Schade
Otto Schade Paints "The Lady Don't Protest Enough" Mural on Bateman's Row
Otto Schade "Jack the Ripper 2040" Street Art
Otto Schade 'The Believers' and 'WTF'
'Bull in a China Shop', 'Osch-car' and 'Flies Around Sh*t'
Otto Schade 'Peace and Love on the Streets'
Street Artist Otto Schade Paints Southampton 'Zany Zebra' for Charity (and other work)
Street Art Round-up: Spring & Summer 2015
Otto Schade's New Street Art (Meerkats, Portraits, & More) in East London
New Street Art from Horror Crew, Swoon, Otto Schade, HIN, and others
Street Art: Otto Schade

Street artist Falko One's street art subject is the elephant. He had been to London and painted a series of elephants on walls called "The Herd". His work is always unique because he uses the existing environment and details of the architecture to create his work. The Camden art is no exception. The mural is on a wall behind a fence, so it appears that the elephant is inside a cage.

Other posts on this blog that contain Falko One's elephants street art work can be seen here:

Street Art by Falko One in Penge
Falko One 'The Herd' of Elephants
Jay Kaes and Falko One Murals on Old Street

This post follows on from my last one when I visited Kenwood House in Hampstead. After visiting Kenwood House, which is located at the edge of the sprawling Hampstead Heath, I made my way through the heath and ended up in Hampstead where I enjoyed a nice pub lunch. I had the day off as it was one of the first warm days of the year, and I went to Kenwood House in the morning. To see my post with photographs from there, see Sunny June Day at Kenwood House.

I started at the northeast corner of Hampstead Heath (basically from Highgate), where there was a nice view of London's buildings in the distance from the hill.

After visiting Kenwood House, I navigated through the wooded area and parkland, which was not that interesting really. It was a nice walk in the sunshine, though, and it does take awhile to walk through Hampstead Heath to Hampstead. 

I seemed to be following someone else's path and captured the sam dog twice in my photographs. I would say that most people walking had a dog.

There was a pond, which was dark and overgrown.

I got to Hampstead Heath on Well Street, and I saw the blue plaque mentioning painter John Constable. This painter has artwork shown in Kenwood House, and he lived in Hampstead for awhile.

I also saw the well for which the street is named.

I went to the Wells Tavern, and I had a chilli margarita cocktail and chicken main.

The chicken was served with slices of potatoes and vegetables with a puree sauce. The food was very delicious.

As the day was very warm, I had a strawberry pavlova with a lot of cream and meringue.

I enjoyed my visit to the Wells Tavern and had a good meal, and with Hampstead Heath being nearby, it's perfect for a walk combined with lunch or dinner.