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Piggies in Love

Cupid and his arrow have been hard at work in this piece by Brazilian street artist Cranio. Cranio, real name Fabio Oliveira, was born in 1982 and grew up in the north […]
Piggies in Love

Graffiti Windows

These aren’t the most beautiful of windows, but they are interesting.  These windows in Shoreditch are marked with a spacial type of graffiti where the tags are etched into the […]

Beastly Exhibition

The Bestiary exhibition is now open.  I highly recommend a visit, even if you think you don’t like Phlegm’s work.  I wouldn’t say I like his work myself, but I […]

Coming or Going?

The muted shades of green and blue and the delicate facial features of these figures stand in contrast to the naked rock walls and strong red colours used throughout Taliesin […]

Older than Grandma!

-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 25 Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photo(s) taken from above or below, and invite you to join in the challenge by posting your own photos with […]

Thousand Paper Cranes

I am always amazed at the incredibly complex shapes and objects a skilled origamist can achieve.  Packs of beautifully patterned, coloured papers abound in shops in Japan, and I succumbed […]

Forming an Orderly Ewe!

Today’s post is a bit of a teaser for a longer post, which will follow in the next week or two, reporting on a great street art walking tour I […]

Churchill’s View

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” Winston Churchill Linked to Cee’s Black &White Challenge: Back of Things.

Panes in your Feet?

It’s not often you get upper storey windows and feet in the same shot!   Thanks to the upside-down man in Grosvenor Gardens, however, that’s exactly what you’ll see just […]

Phlegm’s Bestiary

The Bestiary, a Phlegm exhibition is coming to the Howard Griffin Gallery in Shoreditch this February. According to the Gallery’s pre-exhibition blurb, Phlegm is creating “a modern bestiary within his […]