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Street artist JimmyC's artwork has proven to be popular this year when his portrait of David Bowie in Brixton got media exposure due to the people who came to visit it after his death to leave flowers and notes. He recently painted a portrait of Shakespeare on South Bank. Another one of his most recent murals is a simple heart, located on Redchurch Street. This is a reminder that we all need a little bit of love after the difficult times.

JimmyC's artwork is colourful, and two of his murals are located around the corner from this heart. These have never changed and have never been tagged over, which I think shows respect for the artist's work.

Last month, I caught a glimpse of Lora Zombie finishing her newest mural off Brick Lane and one of her friends photographing the finished piece. Lora Zombie is a self-taught artist from Russia who gained momentum in the early 2000s and now exhibits her artwork all over the world. She considers herself as a grunge artist, creating beautiful artwork with an edge. She painted three new murals in London, and according to her Facebook page, the last time she was in London was ten years ago (1).

The first mural features a punk-grunge girl with a similar pose to the title character of the comic "Tank Girl", complete with weaponry, barbed wire, gloved hand, and buzzard wearing a top hat. The comic bubble reads "coffee dreams and zombie screams" and is an excellent and colourful piece.

'Heartbreaker Kid' is another piece just down the road from the above mural. It features a little boy running to kick a cartoon red heart. The mural is painted in blue with the illustrated form of the boy in blue instead of using black/white for the outline and colours. This creates a striking image with the red heart in focus and against the blue.

The last mural is located on Redchurch Street and features a masked figure with a group of crows in the background, against a glowing red halo. It is a striking image with the black and red.

I loved seeing Lora Zombie's work in London, and I've never registered her work before. I've enjoyed looking at her work on her official website as well. For more information about her or to visit her website, go to http://lorazombie.com.

1) Lora Zombie Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LoraZombie/ 

Belgian street artist Bisser left a mural in London over the summer while he was exhibiting some of his work in a gallery. Bisser studied animation at Ghent and got into the grafitti scene thanks to his brother, who was inspired by comic books. Bisser followed his brother's hobbies. Cartoons and a French grafitti magazine were additional inspirations, and Bisser started to work on 3-dimensional murals, especially letters, and abstract work. The artist became popular after being mentioned as one of the top street artists at Bloop Festival in Ibiza, Spain. His tag (Bisser) comes from the verb 'blissen', which means "to resist your year at school." The name was chosen during his year at animation school and dedicated his time to animation, 3D, and music.

Bisser painted a mural of a pig on Bacon Street, near the pig by ROA. The pig has a cartoonish form and is 'broken' up by dotted lines as if it's a butcher's diagram. 

This is a fun piece on the street, playing on the name of the street and next to the ROA pig and butcher girl by Saki and B.

Street artist Fanakapan has been busy painting in various locations in London recently. "Drunken Glass Elephants" was the name of one of his recent murals on Pedley Street (off Brick Lane). The artist was known for starting out painting colourful balloon animals and sweets before switching to foil silver balloons last year. This year, the artist has continued to experiment using a chrome and glass style of painting and continues to refine this technique. His latest piece is the large wall on the Village Underground. 

The new mural features a glass gun, old-style telephone, glove and globe. According to the artist's Instagram page (1), the piece is about "power tools" and distraction/destruction. The gloved-hand appears to be tossing the glass globe in the air, and the glass gun points toward the hand. Does the hand drop the globe to answer the phone? Is the phone a distraction from the destruction taking place? And why did the artist use an old-style phone as opposed to a mobile phone or cordless handset without the dial?

Fanakapan also reclaimed the wall off Brick Lane and painted a new piece of work in the shape of a star foil balloon. The star is probably a tribute to the fact that the location is known as "Star Yard".

Earlier this year, the artist also painted a skull near Hoxton Square.

I've enjoyed seeing these new pieces from Fanakapan, and I like the Village Underground piece. I'm also interested to see what is painted next and what Fanakapan paints next.

1) https://www.instagram.com/fanakapan/?hl=en

Street artist Artista (previously covered in my post here) has spent a lot of time painting various murals across London this year. Most of her street art murals feature her toast character. She has also collaborated with street artist Atomik at the beginning of the year. Earlier this year, she had an on-going theme on Blackall Street where she kept replacing the wall with a new toast mural, photographed below. I did not get to see every example because some did not last long, but I did manage to capture quite a few. Sometimes, getting a photograph of these was hard or impossible. The scaffolding was moved right up to the wall, making it impossible to stand back far enough to get a photograph. Another time, people were using the mural on the wall for a photography shoot. I hung around for awhile, but there was no indication that they would be leaving at any time soon.

I also managed to see the famous toast on a bin.

Also on Blackall Street, the artist painted her lightbulb character with the flowers. These are all common themes.

I also managed to capture her work on Great Eastern Street and off Brick Lane.

Off Brick Lane, Artista collaborated with street artist Atomik. Atomik is an artist from Florida who started in the 1980s and always paints her orange character, which is painted all over the world. The style is quite similar to Artista's own style.

I also managed to capture one of Artista's work, with Anatomix in Nomad Community Gardens, off Brick Lane, which was a collaboration completed as part of a paint jam.

The below one has been around awhile and is a collaboration with Saki & B_tches. I had never covered it, though.

Dale Grimshaw's realistic murals of people can often be found in London. The newest addition to the street art scene are portraits on the Village Underground wall in Shoreditch. The portraits are set against a red background, and they appear to be keeping in with the same style of support for Papau New Guinea's citizens. Earlier in the year, Dale Grimshaw collaborated on a fantastic and eye-catching mural with Mark Hat on a high-profile wall off Brick Lane. The mural supported freedom of the citizens. Although he's not said it in any of his posts with the finished piece, Dale Grimshaw's newest mural does appear to be of the same style. Photographs of it can be seen below.

Last week, I happened to see street artist Neequay Dreph finishing his latest mural off Brick Lane. The artist has recently painted several murals around east London, which I've photographed below. The artist lives in London, but he was born in Nottingham and studied illustration. His work is a blend of 1980s comic books and photorealism, which he has coined "Afrorealism". He has painted all over the world.

The newest mural features a well-dressed man with a beard wearing a hat, and it is located on Fashion Street. The artist posted the man's story on his Instagram account. In short, the well-dressed man is called Bunny Bread, and he was a west London grafitti writer known as "State of Art" who worked with the Non Stop art crew in the 1980s and painted Trellick Towers, which was respected by the community and lasted a long time. In the 1990s, Bunny was also involved and influential in musical movements (along the lines of jazz, hip hop, and soul). Those who wish to read and see more photographs are encouraged to visit the artist's Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dreph_/

On Commercial Road (around the corner from the above piece) is another man (TRoy) silhouette against a bright light. The background colour is eye-catching.

In Star Yard (Brick Lane) and on Shoreditch High Street, the subject of the murals are both females on brightly-coloured backgrounds. The first is Carleen de Sozer, who is a street artist. She painted the mural to the left of her portrait. The second is a lady known simply as Mel. 

Another excellent mural, which is also probably my favourite of these, is located on Hackney Road. It is of Benji Reid, an artist and performer.

For more information on Dreph and to see more of his work, please visit his official website at https://neequayedreph.carbonmade.com

Also see more of my posts about Dreph:

New Street Art Portraits by Dreph

French street artist Bault visited London last month and painted one of the popular walls on Hanbury Street off of Brick Lane. Bault's work consists of illustrated characters or creatures. His work on Brick Lane features a pair of human-like characters with multiple body parts (limbs, eyes, mouths) with a crocodile-like creature. The artist had visited London during an exhibition of his work at Unit 5 Gallery, which was out until earlier this month.

He has been painting the streets since 1997, and his work is colourful. He has studied illustration and graphic design to build on his imaginative style.

For more information about the artist, see his official Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/bault.bault/

Italian-based street art installation duo Urban Solid have come back to London after a couple of years to paste up their newest work on the streets. I originally covered their last work for their last visit in this post. They returned old favourites "audio survelliance zone" casts to the street to bring up the topic of survelliance. These are brightly painted in neon paint. The heads inside the television sets (with the remote controls in their mouths) also returned to provide thought-provoking issues related to media and free-thinking. They also brought some new and refreshing work in the form of two humanlike casts pasted up on a popular spot on Brick Lane. These are nearly life-size and feature a man and a woman with clothes painted on and touristy/hipster outfits.

Another features video game graphic art, and the last new piece features a face created from different body parts. 

Unfortunately, a lot of their work seems to have been damaged in transit but is still recognisable. 

Brighton and Hove are currently hosting 'Snowdogs of the Sea' charity sculpture trail to raise funds for Martlet's Hospice. The snowdog sculptures are inspired by the animated short "The Snowman™ and The Snowdog", which is a popular winter and holiday film featuring a little boy who builds a magical snowman and snowdog. Each one of the 45 sculptures on the trail has been painted or crafted by an artist. Newcastle and Tyne have hosted a similar set sculptures for their trail 'Snowdogs of the Great North', which I covered here. The snowdog charity trail runs until 27 November, and the sculptures will be auctioned next month.

Patch the Unfinished Quilt - Judith Berrill

Gizmo - anonymous

Frank - Jane Anderson

Newshound - Heidi Compton

Snowman's Nightmare - Pure Evil

Roodle - Isy Langhome

Merry Go-Hound - Sean Sims

Winter Lilly - Sarah Jane Richards

Splashhound - Lawrence Art Supplies

Process Pup - Josh for (The Osh)

Bella - Chris Dawson

Pebbles - Joanna Martin

Disco Dog - Natalie Guy

Seagulls of the South - Kathleen Smith

Snowman and Snowdog sand sculpture

Bone China - Gemma Compton

Dave the Dog - Totally Dynamic 

I had so much fun tracking down these snowdogs! Unfortunately, I did not manage to see all of them because quite a few are spread out and not easy to get to by car. I did see most of them, and there are a few duplicates from the pack in the northern trail. The dogs will be on the trail until the 27th of this month. For more information about them and the trail, please view the official website at http://www.snowdogsbythesea.co.uk