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Toward the end of the summer, Kyle Hughes Odgers painted a wall off of Brick Lane featuring three figures dressed in brown with one figure carring a large jar with a plant sprout. The artist, originally from Australia, has created street art and public artwork all over the world and has become quite successful with his artistic career. He has also published books that feature his artwork. This mural is the first work from him that I have seen in London. 

The figures and style of artwork is the artist's style. For more information, visit the artist's webiste here: http://kylehughesodgers.com

Previously, I covered artwork by Ben Murphy, who creates his artwork using electrical tape. I've also covered artwork by Pang, who create various doodles of ashtrays and figures around east London. Last year, the artists collaborated on some artwork. This post will showcase some of their recent art in London in addition to the collaborations. 

The first piece is created using electrical tape, with Pang's ash tray in the middle of the image. Last autumn, I also noticed this sign on Hackney Road. It is another collaboration by both artists Pang and Ben Murphy.

On Great Eastern Street, I captured work by Pang and additional work by Millo, who was in London last summer and painted a few walls.

I found what looks like an older piece by Millo next to a piece by Ben Murphy.

Last summer, Pang created the image below on Hackney Road. Artista and USArt also appear next to the Pang piece.

Artista, Pang and USArt

Ben Murphy often adds his work to this window on Boundary Street.

Pang painted a few bits and pieces last summer and autumn, including this piece on Sclater Street.

Over the past few months, some amazing street art has been painted in London. Although I am not in east London every day like I was before, I have managed to go back to visit every now and again and take some photographs of what I see. Below are some of the better pieces that I have managed to photograph before they have been painted over.

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Senor X

X-Funk by Shok-1

Canadian artist Ryan Smeeton

Plastic Jesus

Unknown

Vibes Odisy

AliHamish

Airbourne Mark

Artista

Edwin

Captain Kris, Thieu, Spzero, Tommy Fiendish

Tommy Fiendish

 
Angus

C3

Belles et Buth

Himbad & Spzero

Radius

SSOSVA

Lost Souls

Madame

Tucks

Elle

Senor X

Father Ted steert art - Jb(?)

Radik

Love

Tarus

InkFetish and Julian Mts

Julian Mt

Frankie

Ar and Joysee

GCAK

Deam Gina

City Hack

Bunny Brigade and others

Birdseed

Joysee

Insane

Spock

Unknown and Lomin

Lomin

616

Unknown

Captain Kris

Anna Laurini

Unknown Princess Leia

Otto Schade

Otto Schade

Otto Schade

Neoh

Nathan Bowen

Mr Shiz

Of course, I will continue to post as much street art as I can, even though I am not in the area as often as I was before or often enough to get photographs of a piece before it changes or has been painted over.

'Un Kolor Distinto' is a team of two street artists known as Jekse and Cines. The duo (Sammy and Cynthia are their real names) are both from Chile, and they recently visited London and painted a few walls. The artists use vibrant colours to create feminine-style portraits and birds. They have been sponsored by the city to paint their city's walls. Both studied art and illustration, and Sammy is also a graphic designer. I captured a few of their murals scattered about the city below.

More information about the street artists can be seen on their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/unkolordistinto or their website http://www.unkolordistinto.com

Zabou is a street artist who started creating her murals in 2012. Originally from France, she has painted striking stencil-based murals across London. The murals are typically witty and made with bold lines with splashes of colour. I really enjoy seeing new work from this artist and watching her evolve over the past couple of years.

One of the first murals that I discovered by Zabou was located on Old Street in east London and featured a girl in a raincoat and a bicycle. I discovered this in 2013.

The artist has been very busy in London this year, so many of the images below have been taken over the course of the past year.

The artist has also collaborated with other street artists, such as the two pieces below featuring Zabou and Saki and Zabou and Senor X.

For more information about the artist, visit their website http://zabou.me or Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/zabou.artist.

Earlier this summer, street artist My Dog Sighs painted a mural on a high-profile wall on Rivington Street. The mural features the artist's trademark eyes with reflections and droplets of water (or bubbles). I'm always amazed at how realistic the artist's technique works. His talent for eyes/droplets and the cute 'Hug' figure, which I have included in past posts, is making the artist more well-known in the world of street art, and he's already got a lot of fans.

This is the second wall that I've seen the artist paint in east London, and the artist has had much exposure this year. His work was highly-publicised during Bristol's Upfest, which I covered here and here. Last year, the artist painted a mural in a hidden alley in Blackall Street, which did not last long before the building was demolished. Previously, he has also collaborated with street artist Midge.

Hopefully he will be returning to create more artwork in London in the coming months as I'd love to see more of his work.

Knowing that I would no longer have all of the shops on my doorstep after I moved, I spent the final week in Basingstoke wandering around the shops. I had to pick up some make-up and a cute London bag from high street shop Accessorize. Accessorize has launched a beauty line in its stores, and the packaging is quite cute for some of the items.

I opted for a selection of eyeshadows in natural shades, and this came in a cute London-print box. 

The second item that I picked up is a shimmery nail polish in a bronze-gold colour called 'Treasure'. I love the multi-faceted little pots, and there's so many colours and even glittery shades to choose from.

Thirdly, I had to buy this London bag. Accessorize had quite a bit of different shades of polish, lipsticks, lip gloss, blushers, eye shadows, and other make-up items. I loved the packaging. For more products, visit their online shop here: http://uk.accessorize.com/uk/beauty/all-make-up

Last but not least, a few weeks previously, I discovered a Model's Own kiosk of make-up and nail polish, designed like a giant nail polish jar, in Festival Place in Basingstoke. I assumed it was a limited-time pop-up shop, but the staff said that it was permanent and it's been in place for almost two months now.

I have tried Model's Own products before and found them to be okay, so I opted to buy some more nail polish on their offer. I selected a couple metallic shades (rose gold and a turquoise) and yellow, light purple, and peach. The metallic shades don't have much staying power and needed topping-up after a day, and I had to use a few coats of paint for the paler shades. 

On Sunday, a group of us went to watch the final race for British Touring Cars at Brand's Hatch. We had VIP access to a private lounge with a balcony view over-looking the track. This also included our own small private lounge, breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea and as many alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks as we wanted.

Unforunately, I realised that I left my camera at home after twenty minutes into the journey. I'll blame the fact that we've only just moved and I'm still very much unsettled and will be for some time. I even left the camera where I would not forget it but did anyway as I was distracted and it was very early when we left. Because of this, I did not get many good photographs and my mobile battery became very low in the early afternoon.

We arrived quite early and had our breakfast in the VIP lounge. Bacon, sausages, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, mushrooms, tomato, baked beans, bread, and a selection of muffins were on offer. The food tasted delicious.

After we had our fill, we went out to explore the cars and pit lanes. I saw a car being spray-painted with street art, and it raced later on.

Our first stop was the pit lanes. We got to the pit lanes a little late as I was waiting on friends to finish their breakfast, and we did not have a lot of time. However, I still was able to meet Jason Plato and got a couple of autographs.

The races began, and the VIP lounge area became the scene of several spin-off cars. 

Lunch was served from 12:00, and we could pick what we wanted. Choices included beef, tuna, coronation chicken, ham, and pasta. I had the pasta and also tried the ham. The food was delicious. For dessert, lemon panna cotta with fresh fruit was served.

Right after we ate, we had the chance to see the Parachute Regiment. We watched four different parachutes jump and land around the 'X' and red smoke on the ground. Two of them had a flag, and one of the flags was a hude British flag.

Afternoon tea was served before the last race and consisted of pre-made sandwiches and carrot or Victoria Sponge cake. 

We had a good day out, and I watched the final three races of the day from the balcony. The weather was bracing with some wind (it is October after all), but I managed to watch from the balcony.

A month ago, the bloke and I met up with two friends in Mattingley, a small 'settlement' near Basingstoke with a pub named "Leather Bottle", which was used as a coach inn in the old days. The name 'Mattingley' also has some family history as I have relatives (by marriage, I believe) with that surname who originally came from the area. Even before I knew this fact, I visited the "Leather Bottle" once before, several years ago before I bought my apartment in Basingstoke.

The bloke and I sat in the garden and had a drink while we waited for our friends to arrive. The weather was sunny but overcast in some places, so we had a cool breeze when the sun was hidden by the clouds. This still did not deter us from sitting outside to enjoy what was left of the summer.

We ordered our mains, and I opted for the chicken and ham pie, which was served with carrot and cabbage and mash. The bloke ordered lamb, and this came with potato dauphinoise and beetroot and broccoli.

My friends ordered salmon salad and Mayalsian chicken curry. I understand that all meals were delicious. My chicken was good, but the crust was a little too heavy and filling, so I ended up leaving a lot of it.

For dessert, I had the eton mess, which was light and hit the spot.

The others had a pot of English tea, which was served in blue and white china.

We stayed for more drinks and small-talk before we decided to head over to Silchester to have a walk around the ruins. The settlement was called Cavella, and it was an Iron Age settlement that was developed into a Roman town. It comprises of 40 hectares and was the centre of the Atrebates tribe around 1st BC. When the Romans took it over in 43AD, it became known as Cavella Atrebatum. For some reason, it was abandoned between the 5th-7th centuries, but it's one of the best-preserved Roman towns in the UK and excavations currently take place to find out more about the Romans and the tribes of England of that time.

We parked up and walked from the parking area down a small pathway with fields around. We came across some elderberries, blackberries, and I also pointed out some mistletoe on a large Oak tree. 

The acorns were also on display on the trees. This is my favourite time of the year, before the cold and dreary winter. The acorns bring back memories of my favourite time of the year on the farm.

The town of Silchester was arranged around a Roman grid layout, and we saw various signs around the area to describe the layout of the town and the features that were still visible. We headed toward the North Gate. We saw the main area of the town was still being explored and excavated, and new technology has appeared in recent years in order to study the ground from above to 'see' strctures or levels of ground underneath in order to provide some insight into the use of the ground.

We walked along the top of one of the ancient town walls, which had a large drop on one side with beautiful lush blackberries. I wondered how many people had fallen in attempt to pick from the bushes hanging off of the cliff-face of the ancient wall. That would have hurt as it's a pretty steep drop through the brambles.

At one point, the bushes disappeared so that we could see exactly how far the drop was. I loved the beautiful trees growing along this old wall. These trees must be hundreds of years old.

On the horizon and over the fields, we caught some glimpses of a church spire. The angle of the lighting on it made it look like a painting, and the clouds looked like a painting by one of my favourite artists, John Constable. 

Finally, we arrived at North Gate, and we saw a board explaining its use as lining up to the major roadway to Dorchester-on-Thames. We also saw an illustration of what it may have looked like. Today, you can see the stonework and where the gate slotted into it and the roadway with the grassy mounds on either side. It's covered with blackberry bushes too.

We decided to walk to the ampitheatre, so we followed the old wall.

The ampitheatre could hold 3,500 to 7,250 people. Horse bones were discovered nearby, so the ampitheatre probably had events involving horses.

After walking to the ampitheatre, we walked along the wall and entered the church yard before making our way toward the centre of the ancient Iron Age and Roman town.

If I did not know that there was an ancient town here, I never would have realised. The land is flat here with grass on top, and it is in the middle of a field. It certainly does not look like the place where you would find a thriving town.

Silchester ruins is managed by English Heritgage, and it's typically opened from dawn to dusk. There is not a fee to walk around or explore the ruins, and there's not a lot to see, but it's a pleasant walk. We didn't walk around the whole area, but we got a good feel for the place.

Street artist 0707, is an Italian artist based in London. Although I have not seen his work in London before, he painted several portraits of women using black and white paint across the city early this year. The portraits are really stunning and have brightened up the walls.

For more information about 0707, see his Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/0707ZerosevenZeroseven