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As mentioned over the past few weeks, Mexican street artists have taken over London. I've already covered work by Stinkfish, Acaro and Mazatl and collaborations with Mazatl and Fusca. This post covers another Mexican street artist, Said Dokins. Said has been in London for a few weeks now, and I've noticed his work around the city in several places. His work is comprised of beautiful typography with colour to create works of art. The newest mural is on Hanbury Street and is titled 'Alive'. 

The same wall has changed frequently recently, and Ampparito was another artist to have his work painted up with an image of bait. The artist is from Spain, and his work only lasted a few days before it was painted over with the work below.

Street artist Oliver Switch also painted on the wall a portrait of musician Raury. I normally do not post advertising on this blog, but I thought that this piece was really stunning. This was replaced by Said Dokins' piece.

The work on this wall has not lasted long this year, so be quick to visit.

French street artist Bom.K is not a stranger to painting in London. In 2012, the artist painted on a high profile wall at the corner of Brick Lane and Hanbury Street, and this was a collaboration with Liliwenn. This year, Bom.K was in London during the Monkier Art Fair where artists exhibit and sell their work. I visited it last year (covered in my post here) but did not get to this year, but I recommend going. 

The new mural is on Pedley Street in the middle of Brick Lane and features a sickly green-like figure and oxygen mask. The use of spray paint and style captures the light and shadow in a unique way, and this is one of the more stunning pieces to grace the same wall this year.

When I walked by this piece a couple of weekends ago, I overheard one of the street artist tour guides telling the group that the mural glows in the dark underneath the street lamp. I don't have any photographs of this, but hopefully one of my readers can confirm.

At the moment, I don't think anyone can escape 'Star Wars' as we have just under one month to go until the new film is released. I've been a fan of the 'Star Wars' universe for many years, as you may have read in my postings about 'Star Wars' Secret Cantina and 'Star Wars' Secret Cinema. So, when I saw the new 'Star Wars' mural off Brick Lane, I was impressed.

The mural is created by Jim Vision, who seems to be painting exclusively on this wall for the past several months now. It features a lot of the characters and subjects from the 'Star Wars' original trilogy: the Death Star, TIE fighter, Luke in Rebel pilot gear, Luke with a lightsabre, Obi Wan Kenobi (x2), Boba Fett, Grand Moff Tarkin, Darth Vader, C3PO, R2D2, Princess Leia (x2), Han Solo, and Chewbaccca.

For the duration of the year, the wall has been graced with Terry Pratchett's portrait and his universe. The wall was a tribute to the author who passed away.

This is not the first time that 'Star Wars' has inspired street art in London. Earlier this autumn, 3D Joe and Max created literal street art (using chalk and the pavement) in the pedestrian tunnel underneath Southwark Bridge. It features an X-wing fighter in the Death Star trench. I was unable to see it in real life as I was moving house.

I'm happy to see the wall refreshed as it's a key street art area in east London in an area where many of the walls are starting to disappear as gentification takes place.

Street artist Louis Masai, who is known for creating murals for endanged species and animals in general, painted a large wall on Redchurch Street in Shoreditch this summer. The piece was created in conjunction with Synchronicity Earth to highlight to coral reefs and the diversity of plants and animals that live in them. The project also had another engaging dimension with Masai asking on social media about which animals should be painted.

The mural took shape over several days where Masai would add a couple of new animals and plants each day. Those passing by could see the work take shape and see the artist at work. I did not get any photographs of the work in progress, but the photographs below show the finished mural.

This is a beautiful and stunning piece that highlights an important cause. To read the interview with Louis Masai on this mural, visit http://www.synchronicityearth.org/blog/2015/10/q-a-with-louis-masai-the-coral-mural-and-campaign/

This month has been popular with Mexican street artists in London due to an exhibition at Hoxton Gallery. Several days ago, I already covered a collaboration with artists Mazatl and Fusca in Shoreditch. Mazatl also collaborated with artists Stinkfish and Acaro. Stinkfish appears to have been in London for a little while as quite a few of his colourful portraits have appeared over the summer.

Stinkfish's style of portraits are easy to identify as the faces are bright yellow with the rest of the body painted black, signifying that the portraits are important. Bright geometric lines of colour are used around the portraits. Stinkfish was born in Mexico but lives in Columbia, and the subjects of his portraits are strangers that he photographs (without them knowing) while traveling. 

His largest work in London is located in Bethnal Green. I was able to photograph the nearly-finished piece, without Mazatl's contribution to it (see below). The finished piece is above.

Mazatl, who I covered in a previous post, added a snake to the portrait. This is a stunning collaboration with the high-level detail of the snake and its scales to the colourful boy's portrait and geometric shapes around the figures.

I captured a few of Stinkfish's artwork around London, although there's a lot more to be seen.

Another collaboration is between Acaro and Mazatl, and the black and white mural below appeared on Hackney Road. The fox is by Mazatl and is similar to the one painted in the previous post. Acaro is another of the Mexican artists who is exhibiting at Hoxton Gallery. He uses black and white paint, and animals and animal skeletons are a favourite subject. His work reminds me of artist ROA, whose work I covered here. He painted a skull and bird-skull creature in the collaboration.

In addition to the collaboration, Acaro also painted his own mural in Shoreditch on scaffolding. It features a bird with a skull-head, which seems to be a popular subject for the artist.

Mazatl also pasted paste-ups in London, and the below one features a lying buck with a couple of deer inside it.

London was lucky to see some very good new artwork by these artists, and I hope that they will soon return to paint more artwork in the city.

Recently, I discovered a stunning wall painted in London on Great Eastern Street where scaffolding has been placed up. The work features bright colours and has a 'folky' style. It is a collaboration of three Mexican street artists who are in London at the moment. The artists include Cix Mugre Krew, Spike Spaik, and Libre HEM. The past couple of weeks have been busy with Mexican street artists who are over for an exhibition, and I recently covered work by Mazatal and Fusca.

Cix Mugre's piece shows colourful masked creatures and two human figures reaching out to a globe.

Spike Spaik's contribution shows creatures heading toward the globe, running with luggage.

The final piece is Libre HEM's contribution, featuring two deer who look made of houses and buildings. Some of these appear to be burning.

Libre HEM's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LibreHem/

Spike Spaik: https://www.facebook.com/spaik45/

Cix Mugre Krew: https://www.facebook.com/cixmugrekrew

A few months ago, I noted that street artist Chinagirl Tile, who lives in Germany, was planning a trip to London to install a large-scale mosaic. The progress of the tile was documented on her Facebook page, and she finally made it to London to install her work earlier this autumn. Chinagirl's work is one-of-a-kind in that her medium of choice (clay tile) is rare in the world of street art. The tiles take time to produce and paste up, so many street artists opt for painting. 

Chinagirl has been to London before, and her portrait of a lady sweeping money (titled 'The Lady'), which was installed on White Church Road, was her first large piece. In 2013, she installed a fake security camera. This year, she installed two pieces in London.

The small-scale piece is titled 'My Little Phoney'. On the artist's website, she mentions that her inspiration is the 'My Little Pony' brand, which featured a range of plastic toy ponies in the 1980s. These ponies are making a come-back, but the artist noticed that their bodies are too thin and eyes are larger today than the 1980s breed. This is a concern about health and beauty.

The second piece is a large-scale piece featuring two foxes, and it is titled "Salt & Pepper". I believe that the piece is located in Camden Town, but I have not seen it yet. The images above are from the artist's Facebook page. 

To visit the artist's website, go to http://www.chinagirltile.com, or go to https://www.facebook.com/ChinagirlTileArt/ for her Facebook page.

Last month, street artist Tellas painted the London Underground Wall behind Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch. The artist is from Italy and often paints naturistic works using black lines with colourful backgrounds. The piece on the Village Underground wall is subtle, fading from pale dark blue to pale green to pale yellow. 

It is a stunning piece, following a few short-lived pieces that I only somehow seemed to capture in the first phases over the past few months (and were being repainted in the next visit...I'd not timed it well).

For more information about the artist, view the Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/tellas1/.

Street artists Low Bros had painted shutters in east London in the past, but I had not seen anything new from them for several years. I originally posted some of their pieces on shutters, which were concentrated around Bethnal Green Road. The artists have recently come to London for an exhibition at Stolen Space Gallery. During their time in London, they painted a large wall off of Hackney Road. The painting features what looks like a square tiger face wearing sunglasses.

Low Bros are a duo of German artists who combine the use of two-dimension and three-dimension artwork. They tend to use a lot of colour and geometric patterns. 

For more information about the artists, visit their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/lowbros.

For more information about the artist and to see more of her work, visit http://www.etsy.com/shop/LouisestArt

The second artist is Jewel Renee, and she paints animals. One particular cute character is a stuffed elephant that she creates images of. Some of her other work is more realistic.