La MOUCHE - Organic Street Art from France

 

After six months of training in decoration painting, our ‘bug’ was then able to work some of these techniques: relief, trompe-l’œil and to create effects of carried shadows and light. He also learned techniques about perspective, false wood, stucco or even the panoramic technique… But the virus about sprays was really transmitted from his two mates Gnome and Twine from, ‘the HVA crew’. 

La Mouche – ‘The Fly’ in French – likes sketching, but he often gets his work done and inspiration from his own intuition and ‘brain pulse’ : this is how most of his colourful bugs and masterpieces came to life… still with some inspiration from the artist Korail.

In order to get inspiration, this ‘bug / street artist’ doesn’t hesitate to fly around the world – England and presently South America – with his friend Mozart.

BINHO - Pioneer of Brazilian Graffiti

Fabio Ribeiro, better known as Binho, is one of the pioneers of graffiti in Brazil and South America.

When he started painting in 1984 he was a b-boy (breakdancer) and skater; it was natural for him to express himself through graffiti. He learned drawing and painting techniques and in school when he was 12 and he started seeing classic graffiti.

The artist conquest respect wherever he goes: San Thiago, Buenos Aires, Nagoya, Tokyo, Osaka, Los Angeles, and almost all Brazilian states have been the scene of his talent. He develops a singular appeal of expression, giving life to all elements of its creation. No wonder that his bold style illustrated Nescau packaging, advertising campaigns from Ford, Brazil Telecom, Motorola, Red Bull, Nestle, Nike, Skol, Ecko, Guarana Antarctica, Sony, Colorgin, Bob Burniquist, among other Spoleto.

ROID - (MSK) Street Art of innovation: high technical skills required!

ROID, a graffiti and street-art artist from Bristol (GB), was born in 1982.

After a decade-long campaign of street and subway wall adorning graffiti that has garnered recognition from his homeland in the UK to collaborative art exhibits in California, ROID has finally begun a push for the demanding world of fine art. At the ripe young age of 29, the emerging street artist cultivated a reputation for his own distinct style surrounding boundary-pushing innovations and uber-technical murals. Having spent much of the last decade gaining the attention of graffiti lovers and of course the transit police, ROID joined the ranks of American street art crew MSK in 2008, the same year he graduated from London’s Camberwell College of Art. Since then, the contemporary illustrator made his art world debut alongside Revok and Rime at the Known Gallery in 2011, earning himself a nod from Forbes magazine in an article on “The 30 Most Important Artists and Designers under 30.”

DJALOUZ - A French 'Street Arter' in 3D

This French artist developed his style with the intention of departing from the (usual) scope. He's inspired by Arabic and Asian calligraphy. He composes with harmony between forms and places; the wall, the floor, corners and cracks. He likes to break the lines and goes beyond the simple mural, playing with the environment that surrounds his graffiti. Material waste, damaged; he will adapt differently each time according to the inspiration he have at the moment. He have a very photographic vision before he starts painting. He tries to use colours that go with the environment and he wants to put in volume what he chalks as a sculpture so that his forms take up space in places where they pose. He loves the letters but he doesn't quite master them so he prefers the abstract forms that are inspired by these places. This is why he always improvises. He never sketched in advanced!

When he started out the shape of his work was very round and organic. After a while he tried putting more volume to the forms to give the impression that his graffiti was really popping out of the wall. He has been working his graffiti around walls and on the ground since 2007.

MAU MAU - A UK Street Artist without border

An established artist on the street art scene and a homegrown southwest talent, Mau Mau has been putting his artwork on canvas and bombing public spaces for over a decade.

As well as his exploits in the art world, he has worked on video animations for Dizzee Rascal and The Herbaliser and created album covers and logos for Skitz (including the new release Sticks Man) Rodney P, Roots Manuva and Estelle.

He is currently producing thought provoking street-smart designs for THTC’s eco trendy clothing. Not by any means a stranger to the fashion industry, back in the 90’s Mau Mau worked on his own clothing label – Sewerside - producing iconic designs that gained a cult following.

Mau Mau has quite literally tagged the world - painting pieces all over the UK, America, Jamaica, Thailand, and Australia. His distinctive style often comes with a message – ideas prompted by political and environmental topics and served with a typically ironic British twist.

CHOR BOOGIE - Street Art & Color Therapy

Chor Boogie, born Jason Hailey in 1979, was raised in Oceanside California a small city by the sea with in San Diego county. He's an artist, a conceptual genius, a street romantic, a master of illusion and technique, Chor Boogie is an original. His works can be described as having healing effects by his unique and unmatched use of color, which brings greater meaning and understanding to his works. Every vibrant piece has a story attached to it. Chor Boogie’s colorful paintings are attracting A-list celebrities, art galleries and museums. Originally from San Diego, the artist known as Chor Boogie currently resides in San Francisco but is an internationally known artist and has traveled extensively to exhibit his work around the world.

The intentions behind his art work are to create timeless dynamic moments of imagination, creativity, originality, meaning, style, self expression, audience, taste, and the visual elements of line, light, composition, form, space, and color. It is derived from the colors of his soul. It is a therapeutic flow of colors, shapes, and movements combined in to one. A movement of images that has adapted to space giving it the significance of belonging to its surface, coming together as one and forming images of creation. Expressing realms of colors that give a healing sense and encourages you to wake up.

HIGHRAFF - A Street Artist with a Psychedelic Style

The mix of graffiti, illustration, comic language, psychedelic art and strong color combinations of organic and geometric forms with vectorial patterns is typical for Highraff (1977). This artist, born and raised in São Paulo, takes his inspiration from natural forms like the sun and the moon, stars, plants, animals, cells, atoms and planets, as well as from the spirit world, represented by natural elements like earth, wind, water and fire and sacred ancient art.

For Highraff graffiti is transient, a visual shout in the city; art made to be seen immediately. Painting in public space is a way to bring happiness and reflection to an unknown audience that passes in the streets and unconsciously observes while following its daily routine. His art is as a conversation between visual pollution such as publicity, abandoned or neglected areas and architecture. The absence of nature in big cities such as São Paulo is a sad fact that makes Highraff feel the urge to remind people with his art about the importance of nature in our life.

Highgraff exhibited in several renowned galleries and museums around the world of which in São Paulo, New York and Denver (USA), Milano (Italy) and Austria.

TITI FREAK - A Street Art Style combining Brazilian & Japanese culture

Hamilton Yokota aka Titi Freak was born in 1974. He's a São Paulo native with Japanese ancestry, resulting in a mixture of personal qualities that stem from his combined cultural backgrounds. 

The artist has created illustration work for International ad agencies and several brands including Adidas, Ecko and Nike. He has painted in the streets of cities around the world, and his fine art has been exhibited in galleries throughout Asia, South America and Europe. 

Titi Freak first began writing graffiti in 1995 on the streets of São Paulo, Brazil. His style fuses Eastern and Western cultures, with fashion, pop imagery, illustration, graffiti and comic influences.

CRIN - Graphical & Abstract Street Art

Some astonishing artwork by Crin (born in Italy - 1979), a graffiti & graphic artist  based in Berlin. A infinite weaving of colours which documents the harmony and artistic expression of this very talented street artist. Brilliant colours aggressively applied on walls. 

A spontaneous blend of design, computer graphics and streetart, a perfect mixture of contemporary applied arts in representing the maximum self expression of art.

FAILE - Pioneer in Contemporary Street Art

Faile, the Street Art duo comprised of Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller (American, b.1975; b.1976) formed their Brooklyn-based multimedia collaborative in 1999. They have conjured a wide array of works over the years, using original iconography and appropriating images from mass media. Faile began covering building exteriors with pioneering techniques in wheatpasting and stenciling, before expanding their repertoire to paintings, collage, prints, and sculpture.

Their works draw inspiration from comic books, pulp fiction novels and even Yellow Pages adverts. There are however a number of concepts which underlie Faile’s gritty pop culture graphics, most notably of these is dualism. “There has always been an attempt to embrace the idea of duality in our work. Love/Hate, Peace/War, Violence/Beauty. This has a distinct place in the world we live and can always be felt as a constant push and pull”. - Miller

DAL EAST - Street Artist from China

Born in China in 1984, DAL East is becoming a prominent figure among the new wave of graffiti art. He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts and began doing street art in 2004. In 2011 he relocated to Cape Town, marrying South Africa’s first lady of graffiti, Faith 47. We have been following his work since and are blown away by his unique style and the fine detail in his artworks.

Commonly depicting animals in a wire-like style, DAL’s work is complex but simple, beautiful and always intriguing. Using different mediums and spaces to create his works, he is inspired by the material world around him, life’s emotions that are part of it, as well as the spiritual world and infinite space that surrounds us.

CEPT - Street Artist with a Pop-Art Style

The work of UK street-artist Cept always brings a smile to the face. Often appropriating familiar images of superheros and adopting a pop-art style. Some of his painting techniques: spray, paint, collage, sculpture. The majority of his work is inspired more by music than other art.

ZLY - Street Art is a mere Physical Representation

Diego ZELAYA aka ZLY was born in Mexico City in 1990. Moved to Britain to study Fine Art – 2007. Studied at UWIC – 2012.

His Art  practice functions as a personal journey to try to explore and understand the human being. Trying to get rid of signs that give away time and culture, trying to strip bare a human and understand what we are under such social imprints is crucial for him. Art is a mere physical representation of what he is trying to find in humans. All artwork is freehand, no stencils were used in the making.

DAVID FLORES - Stained Glass' Street Art

David Flores was born in Tulare, California. After graduation (Graphic design) he began his career as a commercial artist in the skateboarding industry.

David Flores, a LA-based artist who’s best known for a unique style (mosaic or segmented style) that embellishes another work of art rather than painting over it.
Flores is known for reworking iconography in a new and different way; thus giving the original image a completely postmodern aesthetic.  He layered his colorful renderings over the large scale photographs in such a way that the original piece still kept its essence. The end result was an postmodern mixture of two very different styles.

BRUSK - STREET ART FROM FRANCE

Brusk develops creativity from an early age. With a pencil in his hand, he spends his time scribbling until his encounter with the graffiti and Hip Hop in 1991. A graduate of the Ecole des Beaux – Arts in St. Etienne, his thorough work on the graffiti becomes a completely a typical case for faculty. He craves new techniques and discusses various media (photo, video, computer), thereby pushing its limits and opening up new creative worlds. In control of numerous tools, he can work both with figures and abstraction, realism or graphic clean. Brusk develops its approach on a variety of media, it is often necessary to exhibit his work and invest unusual places. His style developed over the years, combines a calligraphic work in 3D, characters and staging.

ERAS - STREET ART FROM SEATTLE

If you give this guy a spraycan, you will be amazed by his stunning agility! His work reflects a mix of pop and disco influence, with a slight hint of science fiction portraits. He often collaborated with the artist Never and they produced amazing murals together.

ABSTRACT STREET ART BY AUGUSTINE KOFIE

When you first view Augustine Kofie’s artwork you immediately are struck with the skill and intensity of his technique. You can understand his love of process and structure. With strong interest in architecture, form and shape of typography, 1960’s iconography, contemporary music and street culture, Augustine constructs a dialogue in his work that is not always easily revealed. His collages and assemblages are layers upon layers of development. His work is as much unintentional mastery as it is intentional order. The imagery not only leaps out at you, but also draws you into his conversation.

Growing up in Los Angeles and very active in the West Los Angeles Graffiti scene since the mid 1990’s, Kofie’One, as he became to be known, is a skillful and well respected street artist. After viewing one of his paintings and assemblages you may begin to recognize his distinct style in one of his many murals scattered around Los Angeles. Drawing on his craft of lettering he has developed an abstraction that goes beyond the traditional 3 dimensions of our known world into a crafted world that builds on itself. Choices like his color pallet recall a vintage sensibility. He has the innate ability to combine appreciation of the past and his vision of a developed future.

Kofie’s mechanically detailed line-work, organically complex structures and heavy earth-tone palette develop into a multi-layered, architecturally inspired world that is a vintage futuristic realm not subject to gravity. 

2501 - Zebra Style Street Art

The mysterious artist 2501 is an italian artist. He creates some geometric forms with optical illusion. Applying undulating zebra marks all over the place, his style flows nicely from piece to piece, whether he’s doing a huge scene involving horse-riding bandits or understated characters intriguingly placed within the landscape. It seems he’s moving more and more toward a black and white direction this year, and the resulting high levels of contrast produce a nice dynamic between the walls and their surrounding environments.

"EL MAC": Miles MACGREGOR - Amazingly Realistic Street ART

Born in Los Angeles in 1980 to an engineer and an artist, Mac has been creating and studying art independently since childhood. He was inspired at a young age by classic European painters such as Caravaggio, and Vermeer and Art Nouveau symbolists such as Klimt and Mucha.  This was mixed with the more contemporary influences of graffiti and photorealism, as well as as the Chicano & Mexican culture he grew up around.
He began painting with acrylics and painting graffiti in the mid ’90s, when his primary focus became the life-like rendering of human faces and figures.  He has since worked consistently toward developing his unique rendering style, which utilizes repeating contour lines reminiscent of ripples.  Turing patterns and indigenous North American art.  In 1999 he began to paint portraits of his friends and anonymous Mexican Laborers in public spaces throughout the American southwest, both legally and illegally.  He also started painting large technicolor aerosol interpretations of classic paintings by old European masters. This led to being commissioned in 2003 by the Groeninge Museum in Brugge, Belgium to paint his interpretations of classic Flemish Primitive paintings in the museum’s collection. He has since been commissioned to paint murals across the US, as well as in Mexico, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, South Korea, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Singapore, Germany, Ireland, the UK, Vietnam and Cuba.

PIXELPANCHO – Street Art Sci-Fi Style

Born in Turin (Italy) in 1984, Pixelpancho was introduced to color and form by his grandfather who painted occasionally. With time, his passion for art and design led him to the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts followed by the Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia, Spain where he obtained his degree. During this time he became familiar with the graffiti and street art scenes. Influenced by this world, he began using spray cans and marker and working on outdoor surfaces which stood out from the classic paper and canvas formula of other students. Traveling between his hometown of Turin and Valencia Pixelpancho took every opportunity to be noticed on the streets, using different mediums such as tiles, wall painting and sticker/poster art. Pretty soon his work was adorning the walls of many European cities. Pixelpancho’s work draws from several diverse influences. Traces of historic painter Joaquin Sorolla, the surrealist Salvador Dali, the political painter group “El Equipo Cronica” to the more modern Ron English, and Takashi Murakami can be seen in his work. Traveling to Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Vienna and many other cties  for graffiti jams and gallery exhibitions has allowed his style to evolve from a simple Robot character to the more complex compositions in his work today.

M-CITY - The Giant Murals' Specialist

Mariusz Waras, also known as M-City, is an artist born in Gdynia, Poland in 1978. Graphic artist, outdoor painter, traveller, amateur architect, he's graduated from the Department of Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk where he is currently assistant lecturer in Prof. Jerzy Ostrogórski's painting studio. The author of the m-city project including several hundred murals. His work focuses on urban space. His murals may be seen in the streets of Warsaw, Gdańsk, Berlin, Paris, Budapest, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bolzano, London and Prague.

His strength lies in his versatility and understanding of architecture. As always and with his distinct machinery looking aesthetic, M-City's work contains an immense amount of detail, patterns, and strong line work.

SICKBOY - Part of The British Street Art Leaders

A leading artist to emerge from Bristol’s graffiti scene, Sickboy’s humorous work has cemented his place in the upper echelons of the British street art movement.
Sickboy is one of the first UK artists to use a logo in place of a tag, and his red and yellow street logo known as ‘The Temple’ can be seen on walls and wheelie bins worldwide.

Sickboy has built up one of the largest bodies of street art works in UK history and he is tipped by the leading financial press as one of the movement’s most bankable artists. His temples, slogans and audacious stunts – including the caged heart installation dropped outside the Tate Modern in 2008 – have landed him global recognition.

His work has featured in countless graffiti books and documentary films including Banksy’s Oscar-nominated Exit Through the Gift Shop, and in global and national TV, newspapers and magazines including BBC London News, The Financial Times, The Independent, i-D, and many more.

SIDRON - A Street Artist From Athens

Sidron‘s illustrated gas masks on Athenian walls evoke an urban guerilla like ambiance. Along with the Jnor, Kapone and NDA crews, artists like Sidron have been around for a long time. They’ve always been underground. 

The gas mask has been incorporated into the popular iconography as a symbol of danger, war and pollution. As such, it is being used in street art, usually as an image that protests against these condition. 

D*FACE - A Street Artist from London

Dean Stockton is better known as D*Face; is a play on the word "deface" which is how many view the art of street artists in general when it shows up on public property. In that sense, Stockton plays directly into the public opinion that street artists 'deface property'. While that may be true street artists such as D*Face also contribute to society even if their actions may be considered legally destructive depending on how they convey their artistic vision on a surface.

JB ROCK - A Figure of Rome's Street Art Scene

JB Rock was born in Rome in 1979. He's graffiti first appeared on Roman streets in the early 90s.  

One of the most important names of Rome's street art scene, his style has evolved over the years, and next to his usual graffiti work he now experiments with different techniques. Whether he's exploring the life of the suburban outskirts or investigating a woman's body, his use of decorative styles and images is outstanding.

ZUMI - STREET ART FROM BUENOS AIRES

Zumi studied fashion design and began painting in the streets of Buenos Aires in 2006 after being introduced to urban artists that inspired her. She is one of the few female artists to take her work into the streets of the city.

Taking inspiration from nature and from her day to day life, Zumi combines idealized versions of flowers, trees and birds in her own unique natural landscapes. Filled with beautiful pastel colors, her graceful murals create oases of beauty amidst the crowded and noisy city streets. Stumbling on one of her pieces delicately draped across a concrete wall brings to mind ideas of peace, purity, and joy.

Zumi’s art is a beautiful example of the power of street art to positively affect urban environments and our interactions with them. She has recently moved to Sao Paolo, where she continues to paint both independent and collaborative works on the streets and in gallery settings.

DREYK The Pirate: A Unique Graffiti Artist from Athens

Dreyk started painting the streets of Athens 13 years ago in his early teens. A few years later, he started forming his ever recognizable sea-themed style. Influenced by his studies in design, amongst other things, he evolved to a more clean cut-thick stroke style as years went by. Why the sea? Well, almost all greeks have a deep love for the sea and travel, and Dreyk is no exception. In his case though, as it usually happens, it all started by accident. Painting his first pirate on a wall many years ago, people started calling him “pirate”, a fact that helped him find his own identity in street art.

Often using only blue and white paint, Dreyk creates a beautiful intersection of greek tradition and contemporary creativity, inviting athenians passing by to his dream world, directly evoking emotions of innocence and restlessness – ultimately stating that life, love, Athens – it’s all beautiful, it’s all simple. These virtues are thriving not only in Dreyk’s graffiti work, but in his work as an illustrator / visual designer as well. Indeed, even though he has managed to become well known from a very early age (working as a graffiti artist for athenian clubs and hotels), he prefers to remain a “pirate” as far as graffiti is concerned. It’s a part of him that will always be his hobby and not his profession – he makes his living working successfully in the publishing field.

GASER aka GASIC PAINTER - Collective

More than ten years of experience in the art of graffiti, illustration and graphic design, writer and artist Gasicpainter offers decorating services and advertising. For each assignment provides exclusive designs and personalized, and are adaptable to all types of support.

STREET ART By BUSTART

It would be of no surprise if the name Bustart (Swiss born street artist in 1983) rings a bell. This versatile street artist from Basel (Switzerland) has been dominating the streets of Amsterdam for quite some time now! You can’t walk the streets without seeing his stickers, stencil art, paste-ups or pieces. His street art is not limited to any medium and he always comes up with someting surprising.

There is no technique Bust doesn't use in his pictures. Freehand with paint-brushes, markers and cans or stencils up to 8 layers. For him, there's no limit!

His favourite tools are markers and spraycans and as background definitely concrete walls. Because it has its own structure and it's naturally grey begs for a new coating!

Bustart works, loves and lives with Zaira and this for more than 7 years. They both enjoy travelling, but not for the good weather, the sunshine or the beach! Instead, they are always looking out for good spots to paint and express themselves.
Amsterdam has always been a magnet for the two artists; the whole flair of the city is unique. So, after traveling to Amsterdam every year, both decided to move to their favorite town in the beginning of 2011. Right now Zaira & Bustart are the key artists giving the streets of Amsterdam an artistic look.

SWEET TOOF - Street Art from London

Sweet Toof’s work starts with and evolves out of his street art, whether as a solo graffiti artist or in collaboration with others. Like the streets of 1980s New York, Britain’s streets today are being reclaimed by an ever-increasing army of street artists of which Sweet Toof is one of the most prolific and artful.  Typical tags, throw-ups, and more elaborate street pieces become a whole language that informs his studio works.

Equally disciplined in traditional painting and printmaking techniques, Sweet Toof masterfully blends urban detritus with bygone decadence. Fusing ancient methods with modern materials, Sweet Toof’s imagery combines layers of historical and current cultural references to create unconventional, iconoclastic art that is at once both traditional and contemporary.

Mr.THOMS, a Funky Movement

Talent, humor and a little insanity. Meet Mr THOMS aka Diego della Posta, an Italian street artist. Mr.Thoms works with vibrant colors and geometric shapes to create movement. The walls he works on have a direct influence on his theme. His great understanding of architecture and body language allow him to grasp the essence of his characters and transcribe it to the walls.

His characters appear directed by insanity. They have a  funky sparkle in their eyes. His cartoonish portraits will make you want to stand up in move. This is what defines Mr.Thoms skills, his ability to depict movement onto the walls. You can feel the dog breathing, hear the musician playing and smell the alien’s paint. 

THE WAKS – a collective of street artists.

Self described as: “Artistic collective consisting of cool personas. (SLIPY, SICER, POIZ, LACTAS, JUNIOR, PANDA, JESPER)”. Great styles and crazy photo realistic characters. These youngsters broaden the horizon. THE WAKS!

Abstract 'Street Arting' by KEF

Born in Aachen, Germany in 1989, KEF is working his way up with his one-of–a-kind street-art paintings and abstract works.

In his youth he painted traditional graffiti – which became to monotone for him after discovering street art. In 2005 KEF developed two very unique characters with which he invaded the European street art scene. In 2009 KEF transformed his two characters into more abstract figures – which he then painted onto a variety of different surfaces or as large scale murals. 

STREET ART BY MAKATRON

 Mike Maka is a painter who works in a variety of media including street art, canvas and illustration. He has travelled and created work around the world, painting the Berlin Wall to the River Ganges. He received a scholarship at 20 to study art in New York, which lead to working as a bike messenger for 10 years in 10 cities, and leaving his mark on many walls.  Mike has exhibited extensively through Australia as well as group shows in Brazil, Japan and New York,  and has works in private and public collections locally and abroad, including aquisitions by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

His work is preoccupied with the interface between man, beast and machine. Presenting a visual riot that stimulates the mind, Mike’s art conveys an imperative message to those confined in the concrete jungle to stay connected to the animal within them that lives in the natural world.

He is based in Melbourne Australia.

The KRAH – Greek street artist

The KRAH was born in the UK and raised in Athens.
He is a self taught artist that started drawing from a very young age.

In his teens he started painting in the streets of Athens. Doing his first murals with spray paint in 1997, he quickly became one of the most noted Greek street-Artists, not only in Greece, but internationally through his tours around Europe and Asian countries such as Japan and Thailand.

He started his working career doing murals, before moving on to illustrating magazines and books, and then working for advertising agencies. Later he moved on to working for fashion companies. It remains clear that his passion for street art underpinned all of his work and led him into creating work for galleries.

ETAM-CRU: Street Art By Graffiti Crew

This graffiti crew is off the hook. Their unique and elegant style makes for a refreshing change and their skills and craftsmanship is awe-inspiring. Their giant murals are fantastical and take you off to very special places in your head. 

Street artists Bezt and Sainer from Poland unite their powers to create large scale murals on walls throughout Poland.

C215: Christian Guémy - Graffiti Stencil Art

 

C215′s real name is Christian Guémy but he goes by his artistic identity, ‘C215′. His street art represents an exploration of animals, architecture, freedom and those forgotten about by society all in incredible detail and against a backdrop of overlooked places.    He has put work up all over the world in India, Israel, Poland, the USA, Senegal, Russia, Morocco, his home-country of France and of course, London.

URBAN STREET ART - INKFETISH

Some cool street murals from London-based artist Tom Blackford, aka Inkfetish. “Getting into street art was a natural process,” he says. “I started out playing around with graffiti in my teens, then in my early 20’s, I met people that really inspired me to start realizing my illustrations on a bigger scale.”

Inspired by Japanese comics, he has a dark sense of humour that permeates many of his characters.

Tom’s distinct colour palette, often twisted subject matter, technique and bold themes continue to resonate with a growing audience.

CUELLIMANGUI's street art influenced by Japansese prints

Cuellimangui is a street artist, from a small city in South East Spain, Orihuela.
He always had a passion for painting, but in 2004 he started doing it more seriously, between Altea and Orihuela, and later Valencia with old friends.

His subtle patchworks of organic shapes bring life to inanimate objects and the abstract forms he paints. According to him, he uses the walls, to create a dialogue between the viewer and his work and in this way he offers a new kind of communication. His work, he says, is influenced by surrealism, eighteenth-century Japanese prints, tattoo culture and urban aesthetics.

Street Artist SHAKA’s Amazing 3D Graffiti Art

The French street artist Shaka aka Marchal Mithouard is just full of talent. From quite incredible relief paintings on canvas to graffiti, Shaka incorporates a unique 3D style in his works. Awesome

It uses a process that allows him to sculpt directly onto the canvas. His theatrical scenes beyond the literal space of the work to create a bridge to the place where we are. The characters challenge us by their behavior often exacerbated. Faces are fragmented, ribbed, made of abstract shapes or figurative tending to complicate or to codify their behavior, giving the impression that they wear a mask. This show is a static call the meeting to deal with nonsense reflection of our way of being in everyday life.

STREET ART BY PHLEGM

Phlegm is born in North Wales. Phlegm is well known for his self-published comics and street art.

Street-artist Phlegm lives and works in Sheffield, England, more than 150 miles from trendy London, but his engraving-inspired reclamations of dilapidated walls and spaces deserve a wider audience.

Phlegm started keeping sketchbooks during his fine art degree 15 years ago to deal with the stuffiness of the course. After he graduated he felt that his art stagnated. Phlegm was inspired looking back at his sketchbooks; the relief of sketching to stomach his degree became his new work, which he enjoyed. He became a full-time comic illustrator, producing and selling comics from his home in Sheffield.

Phlegm's name derives from classical medicine, where the body was thought to have four main fluids (or humours). If you had too much phlegm in the system it was thought to lead to apathy. Comics were a release for Phlegm and a way to enjoy art again. His name acknowledged that fact, plus it was unusual, fitting his comics.

ROA – The street art activist.

Roa, a hugely talented Belgian street artist from Ghent, is renowned for his giant black and white animal street art. Roa started off in the street art scene painting animals on abandoned buildings and warehouses in the isolated industrial areas of his hometown. Today, Roa’s animals may be found slumbering on the sides of semi derilict buildings and peering out from shop shutters in citiy streets all accross the world from New York to Berlin and Warsaw to Paris.

The artist has visited London a couple of times, each time leaving his mark. His animals can be seen hibernating across the cracks of walls in Shoreditch and Brick Lane.  The works often take many hours to paint due to the huge scale and highly intricate nature of ROA’s street art. Consequently, most of his pieces are done with permission which means that his work usually sticks around on the street for a while (notwithstanding the efforts of local London Councils).

STREET ART By CHEMIS - in Benešov, Czech Republic

Graffiti writer known as Chemis comes from Kazakhstan. His works are known in Czech as well as in Europe. Visiting new places, experimenting with spraycan, making films and cooperation with organizations promoting human rights is an important part of his eight-year history of painting.

DALE GRIMSHAW – The lowest of the low

Regarded by his graffiti and street art peers as the lowest of the low – an art school boy with no place on ‘The Street’ – Dale Grimshaw is anything but, as he disproves his naysayers and negative commentators by producing some of the most unique and inspired urban decorations since Banksy first appeared on the art world’s radar.

Originating from the infamous East London scene, Grimshaw’s impressive woodcut prints and paste-ups have gained the attention of graffiti and art commentators worldwide. Formally trained as a fine art painter, Grimshaw was heavily influenced during his tuition by the New York art scene, and as a result developed his now signature graphic style.

His unique technique perfectly transitioned from canvasses to woodcut printed paste-ups, which saw him evolve in reverse to most street artists: from private galleries to public walls. Often focussing on personal or social commentary, each piece has its own clear energy and intent, distributed by his aggressive approach and fractured style that imbues each painting with its own sense of emotion and feeling.

ANDRES AMADOR's Stunning Sand Art

Andres Amador takes sand art to epic proportions on the beaches of San Francisco. Using an assortment of what appear to be garden rakes the artist shapes sand banks into beautiful art works with mass appeal.

STREET ART BY DOLK

Dolk Lundgren, or simply Dolk (Norwegian for dagger/knife), is a Norwegian stencil artist whose work has rapidly gained popularity since first being introduced to the masses via the Wooster Collective and Pictures on Walls (POW). Dolk’s profile from Stencil Revolution lists his occupation as “fluffer” and states his interests as “stencils, painting, exploring, sex”. His work has been exhibited in London, Berlin and the NUART Festival at Stravanger in Norway. Dolk’s early works were often attributed to Banksy due to similarities in style. But Dolk has since established himself as a master of the stencil in his own right.

CHALK ART by David Zinn

David Zinn has been creating original artwork in and around Ann Arbor since 1987, serving all manner of clients from small shops to major municipalities. His artistic style and professional approach are grounded in a desire to communicate concepts clearly, and with a sense of humor where appropriate. David has created posters, business logos, book illustrations, educational cartoons, museum signage, t-shirt designs, murals, greeting cards, environmental superheroes, corporate allegories and hand-painted dump trucks. His artwork has been reproduced in Canada, England, Scotland, South Korea, Japan, and Australia, and can also be found on the inside of dumpsters in Ann Arbor and the outside of buses in Anchorage.

David is a self-taught artist with a B.A. in Creative Writing and English Language from the Residential College of the University of Michigan. He has taught creative writing, scenic painting, and theatrical makeup design, performed in and directed several Gilbert & Sullivan operas, recorded audiobooks, and hosted two children's radio shows (The Rug Rat Revue on WCBN-FM and The Mud Pie Cafe on Michigan Radio). David is also a passionate sidewalk chalk artist, an avid whistler, and a haphazard ukulele player. 

ORTICANOODLES: God Bless Stencil

Orticanoodles is the pseudonym for two Italian artists, a very active and tight-knit duo, composed of Wally and Alita.

Wally was born in Carrara, where he attended Art School and in 1996 he moved to Milan to attend the course in Advertising Art Direction at IED (European Institute of Design). Here in Milan, he met Alita.  Both in love of the stencil technique, they began to create drawings and handmade posters, quickly making themselves known in the street-art world.

In 2004, they start their first illegal actions in the street, stickering and pasting up posters. In their laboratory, situated in the Ortica district in Milan, Orticanoodles logos took shape. With the subversive power of Zibe, Orticanoodles started a blazing activity in the streets, soon evolving into a real urban guerrilla campaign.

STEVE LOCATELLI

Steve Locatelli was born in Brussels. His passion for graffiti comes from the 90s. He started in the Brussels metro. Graffiti is truly a passion for this young artist who often plays with the boundaries of the forbidden. His works from the nineties and so on are often visible in places ‘illegal’. In 1998, the city walls have become exclusive places to let young people express themselves through this new art. It is at this point that he could give free rein to their imagination and develop his style.