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If I could move anywhere in the United Kingdom (without having to worry about a job), I would move to Salisbury. (However, I also like the Cotswolds, so that's a contender.) I fell in love with Salisbury in 2000, when a past boyfriend took me there to visit as he lived down the road in the New Forest and his parents worked in Salisbury; Salisbury was their nearest big city and the closest with a train station, and I'd find myself traveling down on the train from London on Friday evenings to see him every other weekend. I also worked there for a few months. I've visited the town now and again over the course of the last decade, so when I learned about the Baron's Charter sculpture trail last year, I knew that I'd be paying the city another visit this summer.

MC 800 Baron - Mark Elling

The Baron's Charter sculpture trail consists of 25 painted sculptures in the shape of a baron. They commemorate 800 years since the signing of the Magna Carta (1215), a set rules/laws for society of that time, which influences current civilisation. Salisbury Cathedral displays one of the remaining signed Magna Carta documents. Only four of these are in existance today, and the others can be seen at Lincoln and the British Library. 

The Magna Carta Baron - Donald Brown

The trail is on display until the 6th of September. After it finished, the barons will be auctioned off for charity Trussell Trust, to provide food for those who need it. Below are photographs of the barons from the sculpture trail. 

Stained Glass Flower Baron - Louise Luton

Salisbury Market Baron - Lee O'Brien

Stonehenge Winter Solstice Druid - Mandii Pope 

Traditional Tribal Baron - Jake Cook

The Salisbury Baron - Jodie Silverman

Discworld Knight - Paul Kidby

Astro Baron - Jenny Leonard

Quintessentially British - David Graham

Baron Button - Laura Fearn

Additionally, we happened to visit Salisbury during an archaeology event. We were able to go into the Salisbury Museum, which has gotten larger since my last visit and is well-worth a visit with a large selection of prehistorical items. I'll be posting more on Salisbury at some point, but we saw some archaeologists that have been on television. I heard a thick Somerset accent (I used to work near Bristol) and the bloke recognised Phil Harding, who has been on Time Team and other shows. I took a sneaky few photographs. 

Phil Harding from Time Team and other programmes

The Baron's Charter sculpture trail will be in place until 6 September, so do go and see the sculptures. They are all within walking distance of each other and are centrally-based. (There are two that are accessible from the centre for those who wish to walk a little further.) For more information, visit: http://www.thebaronscharter.org.uk

A little over a couple of weeks ago now, street artists Alexis Diaz and Elian collaborated together on a new mural on the popular wall at the corner of Hanbury Street and Brick Lane. I covered Diaz in the summer of 2013 when he painted an elephant-octopus on the same wall and in the summer of 2014 when he painted an eel-skeleton on a wall on Bacon Street. Diaz likes to blend different objects into a single object, using black hatch-marks to create light and shadow. The subject of thie piece seems to feature a heard with an eye and an arrow. Elian is responsible for the brightly-coloured background. Both artists are in London for an exhibition featuring Latin American artists at MYA Gallery. 

Elian Chali is from Argentina and paints abstract geometrical pieces using bright colours. Alexis Diaz is from Puerto Rico.

This is a striking new piece and one of the best murals this year so far. I've included some close-up photographs of the piece below.

This will probably be one of the best pieces of street art this year as Diaz's murals always make a lasting impression. As mentioned, you can see the artwork at the corner of Hanbury Street at Brick Lane.

I've compiled a lot of photographs of street art over the course of last year and the beginning of this year. I've included these in this post for a round up of various pieces of street art that appeared in east London over the past several months. This weekend (July 11 and July 12) is the "Meeting of the Styles" street art event, so some of the walls around east London will be painted over.

Mauro

Neoh has been busy painting London this year. I've covered the artist in more detail here.

The popular wall on Pedley Street recently became home to two new pieces, which I have added below. I am not sure who the artist is for the first one.

Unknown

Nathan Bowen's characters have made appearances in many places this year. I covered the artist in more detail here.

Birdseed is a street artist who has produced a lot of work in London over the past several months.

I am unsure who painted the following.

Unknown

Edwin is a popular street artist based in London. He often puts up hand-drawn stickers around London and also paints some walls with various cartoon-style illustrations.

Last autumn, he painted a high-profile wall on Hanbury Street with airmail stickers.

Eelus was the previous occupant of the space that Edwin took over on Hanbury Street, and this piece (you can see it in my post here) was his first piece for awhile after the artist lost his daughter. The piece below appeared in the autumn. 

Jim Vision is another artist who is always adding his artwork to London's streets. The image below appeared off of Curtain Road last autumn. I originally thought that it was a piece by David Walker.

David Walker's piece was painted over in 2013, and the artist finally visited London again to recover his space on Rivington Street last summer.

I liked this colourful face by Jaycaes.

At the end of last year and beginning of this year, the large Village Underground mural was painted by Ian Stevenson and Russell Brand. This piece features a Mickey Mouse character with the words "the revolution is now".

Himbad is another London-based artist that has been busy in the past year. The piece below appeared at the start of this year.

This was then replaced by a baby's face from artist Empty Belly, an artist who seems to be well-traveled and who has painted in Berlin and Lisbon.

DESX was another artist who was busy last spring and summer, and I saw a lot of these characters (the one being chased by the gigantic wasp) painted around.

Spzero is another busy London-based artist. I covered some of the work in my blog post here. Sclater Street was a popular spot.

David Shillinglaw also painted a few pieces, and I covered some of his work with Malarky recently. The pieces below appeared at the start of this year.

Senna, an artist from Brazil, painted the streets of London in 2013. I covered his work here, along with some collaborations. The artist came back for a visit and painted a couple of pieces in London at the end of last year.

Lily Mixe is a graphic artist from Paris based in London, and she's painted in London before. I liked the whale pictured below.

Meme painted a monkey off Great Eastern Road. This appeared at the beginning of the winter season last year.

Millo and Ben Murphy painted the pieces below. I covered Millo in a blog post here. Ben Murphy creates his work using electric tape. You can see some more of his work in my post here.

Masai is another famous artist, and he often paints animals. This bird made an appearance toward the end of last year. It's located off Brick Lane on Pedley Street.

Lister was one of the first artists I covered in my blog as he had just visited London and left a few pieces around. He must have returned to London at the end of last year because I discovered this piece off Curtain Road. You can read my original entry about the artist and see more of his work here.

Nemi Uhu is another artist who pastes up tiles around London, and an example of one is pictured below.

Last spring, NDA (a street artist from the USA) painted the high-profile wall on Hanbury Street.

I had already covered some tribute pieces to Robbo, a popular street artist in London who sadly passed away last summer. See more pieces in my tribute to Robbo street art blog post.

Rone is another artist that I've covered. More pieces can be seen here, but the piece below appeared last year.

I really like Alice's work, and the following appeared toward the end of last year but did not last long. I covered her work here.

The Krah painted the piece below on Sclater Street.

Tizer is another popular London-based artist.

The Toaster Crew had not painted anything for awhile, but now they are back. I found the following piece off Brick Lane. I originally covered some of their work here.

Txemy painted the colourful piece below, which really brightened up these cloudy days in early 2015.

Here's a piece by IconTrust.

Cardboard Skeleton, based in London, painted the piece below. He's also been quite busy in the past several months.

I do not know who painted this piece, but it appeared right after the Scotland vote when some wanted independence.

I loved this piece. It reads "always and forever" if you look at it correctly.

I am not sure who the artists are for the pieces below. Drop me a message if you know.

Adnate

Unknown

Lissixiu

Malaki

Bren da

Cheese

Captain Kris

Erin 

A new mural was recently painted on Hanbury Street featuring the work of Cekis, a street artist from Chile. The artist is currently in London to support his work in exhibition 'Entre Muros' for Latin American artists in MYA Gallery. Cekis, whose real name is Nelson Rivas, currently lives in New York City. He painted the streets of Chile in the 1980s, focusing mainly on murals with a political mesage and inspiring other artists. The colourful piece features bright green, purple, pink, and orange trees/bamboo and leaves/vines. The natural aspects of this mural appear to be fenced in, and fences was a subject/theme that the arist covered a few years ago. Fences are made to keep things in (or prevent things from getting in or out), so perhaps this mural does have a message as well as providing colour to this area of London.

Cekis' mural is located at the popular street art spot at the corner of Brick Lane and Hanbury Street, and I checked it out last week. The wall across from it was also updated with a new mural, which I will also be covering in the next few days.

Below are more close-ups of the mural.

To visit this piece, go to the corner of Hanbury Street and Brick Lane.

My birthday was in the middle of last month. This year for my birthday, the bloke and I decided to go to Lymington. We had a treasure trail walk to complete, and we expected the New Forest to be fairly quiet on a Wednesday, which it was. We were lucky to have decent weather with sunshine (and some cloud), and the rain stayed away. We had a little over two hours to enjoy here while we walked around to solve the clues to the treasure walk.

The first stop of the day was to Toby Carvery in Basingstoke, a restaurant chain that is famous for its carvery meals, and we had breakfast. I had toast, bacon, tomato, scrambled eggs, mushrooms, potato (mixed with onion and bacon), and a giant onion breakfast Yorkshire pudding. This was delicious, and I really liked the potato and Yorkshire pudding. This was a great start to the day.

We drove down to the New Forest afetrwards. Despite living in the same county as the New Forest, we rarely ever visit it. We should visit it more as it's not that far as it is a wonderful place to visit. I guess we are caught up in our busy lives.

We walked past the Sea Water Baths, which I did not know existed. These were founded in the 18th century for health benefits, similar to the spas at Bath and Harrogate in England. They were not open when we walked past. Lymington was also famous for its salt production in the middle ages.

We continued to walk down the side of the harbour. There are a lot of boats here, and I really wish I owned one of them. 

We walked around the edge of town and saw some beautiful houses and gardens.

The High Street and the church in Lymington are attractive, but it's a pity about the scaffolding on the church.

Lymington's High Street also has a gold postbox. These were painted gold for Olympic gold medal winners in 2012.

We also popped into a small ice cream shop in order to get an ice cream. The ice cream was alright, but it was not as creamy as I would have liked, even though it was advertised as 'gelato', which I think of as a creamier version of ice cream.

With our ice creams, we walked down the most picturesque cobble-stoned street near the middle of town and near the harbour before heading back to the car and driving back to Basingstoke for the afternoon. Plenty of photographs of these streets can be seen below.

We left Lymington and headed back home to Basingstoke. Our first stop in Basingstoke was to visit the Parlour Tearooms, which I have written about before. I had my birthday cupcake here. The tearooms were quiet as it was the middle of the day on a Wednesday. It was nice to be out without worrying about the crowds.

Overall, this was a relaxing day and it went by much too quickly. 

A few weeks ago, the high-profile wall at the corner of Hanbury Street and Brick Lane was repainted with a piece featuring a golden fox puppy by Belgian street artist Dzia Krank (DZIA). The artist's style and theme is geometric animals, and foxes do feature quite often. I do like this cute and friendly-looking fox puppy. Who can resist a cute fox puppy mural?

I loved this new artwork, but the annoying black car (parked on the double yellow line) was in the way, so I wasn't able to get a good photograph of it.

In addition to the fox, the artist also painted a wall of scaffolding on Dray's Walk, a couple hundred yards away. This features a moth or dragon fly that appears caught in a spider's web. This is a difficult wall to photograph as there's always something in front of it. 

More information can be read about the artist by visiting the Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dzia-Krank/52285210664 

Additionally, the artist's website is here: http://www.dzia.be

A few weeks ago, I captured some photographs of the murals that were painted for The Greenhouse Effect painting event before a lot of the work was painted over. Last year, there was a similar event in this same area on Fleet Street Hill off of Brick Lane. Artists from the 1 Love Community network and LSD Magazine joined forces to create some nice works of art. The following street artists took part: Jim Vision, Cranio, Zadock, Himbad, SeaPuppy, Charlie McFarley, Tizer, and more. 

The top part of the large mural was painted last year, and this year's painting took place at ground level and also around the fenced-in land between the railroad tracks.

SeaPuppy

Charlie McFarley

Georgie

I believe that this vacant plot of land will be used for locals to grow their own vegetables for free, but I have also heard that new housing will be built here.

A few weeks ago, I was walking down Sclater Street and discovered a brightly-coloured blue and green wall by Stika (Josh Stika), whose work I recognised around east London. At first glance, the mural looked unfinished, but I immediately noticed the car parked next to it and that the car was painted like the mural. The car was a part of the mural, and I thought that this was cool. As I was stepping back to take a photograph of it, the owners of the car appeared and got inside. One of them went over to near where I was in order to get a photograph. I had to compliment the artwork, which he said was done by his friend. (Apologies for the photograph not being straight on; I wasn't able to take one straight on.)

This street art is actually a PR stunt for Vauxhall car manufacturer to raise awareness of their car 'Adam'. This is meant to represent the customisation options of their Opel Adam car. Even though it is a PR stunt, it does still look good to me. I like the concept of using street art to advertise in unique ways, such as this, though I think that this is probably a little frowned on in the street art world.

Yesterday afternoon, I walked down Sclater Street in east London and discovered a new mural. It was still fresh with wet paint. It's another stunning piece along the same wall that has hosted so many great pieces this year. The piece is a collaboration between Himbad, a local artist who has been very busy this year, and Kyle Holbrook. Kyle Holbrook is an artist from USA who has helped communities create murals across several cities in the states (Miami, Detriot, Pittsburg, Atlanta), and he's also painted in Haiti and Brazil.

This is a stunning new piece of work. Kyle's mural (on the left) depicts Sclater Street with visitors taking photographs of the large mural painted by Himbad (on the right). It's an alternate reality. The mural seems to be titled "It's You", written above Himbad's signature.

In Kyle's mural, one can even see the murals by Borondo and Malarkey in the building in the background. One man looks thoughtfully at the mural, and a lady takes a photo with her camera while another takes a photo with her mobile. This is very much a depiction of daily life on Sclater Street.

Himbad's mural's eyes are stunning again, and the paint drip effect is achieved with red and yellow paint.

It looks as though the artist got carried away with the paint this time, or some of it was spilled. The paint was still wet, and it's covered the pavement. I thought that it looked like its own work of art.

This is a stunning collaboration, so check it out quickly before it's gone as street art on these walls do not last long at all these days.

I recently came across two new murals in London, and the artist of these is James Earley. He is an artist from Ireland. He painted two new murals in east London at the end of May. I remember seeing some of his work in progress in the Temple area of Dublin over two years ago, which can be seen in my post Dublin Street Art. The first piece that I discovered is at the back of the Old Truman Brewery. It features an image of a bull.

The second artwork looks like a racing greyhound, and it's located on Great Eastern Street. Unfortunately, it's been tagged over with pink spray paint.

Perhaps we will be seeing more from this artist in London.