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Curry On Naanstop is a street food business inspired by Mumbai street food, and they were runner-up winners to BBC Britain's Top Takeaway in May this year. I visited their food stall at Seven Dials market, which opened up toward the end of 2019. The owners created the business in 2018 after moving to England in 2008 and being disappointed with the selection of Indian food. They purchased a food van and painted it in bright colours, selling their meals out of it around Croydon. 

I visited Curry On Naanstop and Seven Dials market in May and tried their chicken curry and naan bread. The meal was very filling and tasty. The curry itself was not hot in flavour, but it had a fragrant taste. There are other items on the menu that I'd love to try.

It was good to see Wheelcake Island (see my post here) back at Seven Dials market (and Cucumber Alley, which used to be a tiny mall with small independent shops), and I also visited Boolay Crepes, the delicious crepes that I had earlier this year from Yolkin, which had to shut their doors due to the past two years. The crepe didn't taste as nice as it did as it wasn't nearly warm enough, and they do take an age to make.

I visited Seven Dials after work, and it was a little too early for the crowds and too late for lunch. 

You can read my first post about my visit to Seven Dials Market here.

I have previously posted about the little faces across east London that I have been seeing since early 2017 or at the end of 2016. The artwork is from J.Ace, and they have been popping up all over east London, primarily in and around Brick Lane. However, the artist has currently gone global in a bid to paste up over 400 little faces all over the world by the end of the year. I happened to spot one in Winchester the other week; I just happened to see it by chance when I was not even looking. A lot of the photographs below are of the artist's little faces, but many of them have been broken or disappeared now.

A green man 

A postage stamp with a face on it, which I discovered in Winchester near a postbox.

A face with green jewel eyes

A face that had been painted over

A red-haired girl and broken girl with a polka-dot headband

A close-up of the red-haired girl

A clown with sunglasses

A little blue face

A buck-teeth green face with upturned nose

Another buck-teeth face

A woman wearing a face covering and a man with a large nose

A broken woman with a face covering and another face

Another close-up of the broken polka-dot headband woman; her style reminds me of Amy Winehouse.

More posts in this blog with work by J.Ace are below:

Ceramic Characters by J.Ace
Ceramic Street Art Masks 2
Ceramic Street Art Masks and Skulls

Re:Claim Southampton is a new street art festival that took place in Southampton in September 2021. The festival included street artists Lours, Carleen de Sozer, Jane Mutiny, Soul'd, Van Jimmer, My Dog Sighs, Elno, Jim VIsion, Mister Samo, and more. Some of the street art produced during the festival is below. Wom Collective, which includes a collection of street artists Lours, Carleen de Sozer, Mutiny, and more, contributed to some of the walls.

Lours

Mutiny

ALSO

Jim Vision

WOM Collective - Carleen de Sozer

Van Jimmer

Soul'd

JCX

unknown - nony?

Additional artist's posts from Re:Claim Southampton can be seen below:

Mister Samo Paints for Re:Claim Southampton
My Dog Sighs Paints for Re:Claim Southampton
Elno Paints for Re:Claim Southampton

Tucked on a corner at the junction off Winchester High Street (on Trafalgar Street) is a mural featuring Disney-style bluebirds. The birds are painted onto the wall, using the wall "furniture" and other street furniture as incorporation into the artwork. Three of the birds sit on pipes that follow along the side of the building, a couple sit on a box and plinth on the wall, and others fly. 

At the bottom of the wall and on the ground is a pile of grenades, and the innocent-looking birds are picking up the grenades.

The artwork does a great job of blending in and using the features of the wall to its advantage. Are the birds deliberately trying to set off the grenades to destroy the buildings, or are they a victim of human destruction?

South coast-based street artist My Dog Sighs has painted all over the U.K., and he's got a couple of artistic styles involving eyes, stick figures, and sombre-looking faces. Readers may recognise the "eye" style, which is pictured in this post and which appeared for Re:Claim Southampton last autumn. The artwork is on a brand new wall at Westquay shopping centre in Southampton. The wall is partially-covered and on the edge of the new restaurants and in a walkway to the cinema and indoor food court.

The artwork showcases "Background Bob". "Background Bob" is an alter-ego of 13-year old Noah, who has epilepsy and cerebal palsy. He paints background paintings where other artists would contribute to the foreground or on top of the painting, and his work kicked off during the lockdown. He produced over 200 paintings and published a book for charity. Noah appears in the eye of the artwork.

The artwork that "Background Bob" submitted was on cardboard, so it was recreated on the wall by My Dog Sighs.

Previous work from My Dog Sighs on this blog is located on the below links:

Street Art by My Dog Sighs in Cardiff
Street Art in London from My Dog Sighs
My Dog Sighs on Rivington Street
My Dog Sighs 
My Dog Sighs
Mural in a hidden alley in Blackall Street
Collaborated with street artist Midge
Manchester Street Art
My Dog Sighs @ Bristol Upfest 2015
Artist My Dog Sighs' Hug Mural in Bedminster, Bristol

Street artist Elno, who is from Spain, has painted across the U.K. One of her most recent murals is located in Southampton, painted for Re:Claim Southampton last autumn. She has been paiting in London since at least the end of 2015 and often collaborates with other street artists. She enjoys using bright colours, and the majority of her artwork features faces.

Note that it is not Elno in the picture below; it is some random person who was watching me take some photographs.

More of Elno's work on this blog:

Meeting of the Styles 2018
Street Art Round-Up January 2018
Early 2016 Street Art Round-Up
Leake Street Tunnels 2016
Street Art Round-Up 2015-2016
All-Female Paint Jam in Blackall Street

Mister Samo is a trans artist from Portsmouth who speaks out about gender identity and who has painted and contributed to various LGBTQia+ events, such as PRIDE. Last autumn, Samo painted at Westquay in Southampton for Re:Claim Southampton, a new street art festival that saw street art painted on various walls in the city.

Samo's work is located on a new wall on the side of Westquay shopping centre in Southampton. This new piece of wall is located near the outside restaurant area and near where the new cinema is. There's a small partially-covered stretch of wall extending along Westquay to this new area where there is a cinema and bowling alley.

Samo's work uses bright colours and abstract imagery. 

Hares of Hampshire is a new sculpture trail taking place in Winchester and Southampton this summer. Nearly thirty large hare sculptures, each painted by a different artist with a different style, and many more smaller hare sculptures, have been placed around both cities. The hares will be on display until late August, and I am happy to say that they are all within easy walking distance of each other. The hares will be auctioned off after the trail, and they will raise money for The Murray Parish Trust charity, which is designed to help children who have experienced trauma.

I've taken photographs of all of the large hares in Winchester and Southampton.

"Oriana" - Sally Goodden

"Hockley Hare" - Catherine Ruth Church

"Doctor Who Hare" - Caroline Fairbairn

"The Wishing Hare" - Sophie Hardy

"McGregor" - Paint Barn Ltd; "Rusty" - Allison Allan

"Look Up and Within" - Abigal Wicking Art; "I Wish My Love Was a Cherry" - Tracy Dovey

"Hamish Mackie Boxing Hares" - Hamish Mackie

"Armoured Hare of Winchester" - Jason Curtis; "Mr March" - Illona Clark; "Hare of the Dog" - Christain de Ferranti

"Alloy Jack" - James Murray

"Dazzle" - Kezia Hoffman

"Captain Discovery" - Rachel and Phillippa Corcutt

"Forget Me Not" - Jan Erika

"How Many Rabbits in a Rabbyte?" - Jason Curtis

"Wavy Hare!" - Amy Bourbon

"A Wild Walk on the Downs" - Rachel Alexander

"Hero Hare" - Jenny Leonard

"Carrying For the Natural World" - Raine Yeung

"LEPUS Roman Hare" - Emma Abel of abelmosaics

"Hero Hare" - Jenny Leonard

"H.R. Hare" - Amanda Quellin; "24 Carrot Hare" - John Illsley; "Piette the Hampshire Hare" - Phil Daniels

"Flora and the Midnight Garden" - Marnie Maurri

"Poly" - J Masson

"Hartley Hare" - Jackie Purtill Fine Artist

"Be Your Beautiful Self" - Jenny Muncaster

"Chalk Stream River Itchen" - Wendy Bramall

"Doodle Hare" - Natasha Hillary Art

"Shine Bright Through the Dark" - Reilly Creative

Street artist Dave Bonzai is from the south coast of England and has spent a lot of time in London. He was inspired by hip hop and grafitti, and one of his most popular styles of street art is best described as "liquid chrome". He creates words and symbols that appear to be formed on walls in liquid chrome. A few of the artist's pieces across London can be seen below, although none of these (to my knowledge) exist now as street art gets painted over quickly.

To mark the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, a new sculpture trail has been launched in London between Covent Garden and Victoria. The trail, known as "The Queen and Her Corgis" celebrates the beloved corgi breed of dog and the Queen. The corgi has become a symbol of Queen Elizabeth II as she has owned around thirty of them for many years, and they often appear photographed with her. This year, the corgi was used everywhere as a symbol for the Jubilee. There are nineteen corgi sculptures to see in various locations, although the majority of them are around Victoria. All of them are unique and named after one of the queen's own corgis.

The names of the corgis include Carol, Crackers, Dookie, Holly, Heather, Fergus, Jane, Whiskey, Emma, Willow, Tiny, and Susan. Dookie was one of the royal family's first corgis, and he earned the name "The Duke" because he was a cheeky dog. Fergus is one of the newest, and he is actually a dorgi (a corgi cross with a dachshund). Susan is another one of the famous pets because she was gifted to the Queen on her 18th birthday. Below are the corgi sculptures.

"Sandy" - Sophie Malpas

"Monty" - Alison Salter

"Linnet" - Jeremy Clarke

"Crackers" - Berengere Ducoms

"Emma" - Rebecca Hardaker

"Jane" - Rowana Mallett

"Whisky" - Aga Skiba

"Carol" - Jurga Amehome

"Tiny" - Alex Cullen

"Sherry" - Dominika Karc

"Fergus" - Alice Esme Greenacre

"Susan" - Miya Tsuruda-Behan

"Muick" - Vera Todd

"Sugar" - Soul'D

"Willow" - Hannah Sykes

"Dookie" - Kirsty and Brittany Design

"Heather" - Olivia Clarke

"Holly" - Holly Holder

"Honey" - Olivia Brotherridge

The corgi sculptures are each unique and painted by a different artist, and the sculptures can be seen until late July. They have been in place since the end of May.