Peaches and Donuts: brick lane

Sunday, 26 February 2012

More Street Art around East London

One thing I really love about London is that there are always areas to explore. In some cases, there may even be new things popping in the same area. One location where this happens would be in and around Brick Lane. A couple of months back, we joined the Alternative London tour and saw London in a whole new light! Today, the sun was shining and made for a good day out so we decided to revisit the area as we wanted to look for new pieces of street art and the husband wanted to take some street photography. (Shameless promotion alert! :P) Here are some of his photos just in case you are interested to take a look. Yes, he takes much better photos than I do!!! :)

OK, now back to the street art...here are some of the new ones we encountered today. Enjoy!

Thursday, 28 July 2011

London Street Art - Alternative London Tour

Oscar the Grouch by BLAM

We don't venture to London's East End too often so we took the opportunity to do so when we found out about the Alternative London Tour. So one fine and sunny Sat afternoon, we made our way to London, had lunch at Wagamama and waited for Gary the tour guide near Spitalfields Market. And in came this cool looking guy and off we went in search of some street art around the Brick lane(famous for the loads of Indian Eateries), Shoreditch, Old street areas.

By Roa

Gary was very knowledgeable about the many art pieces we saw as well as the happenings around the area. New pieces pop up every so often so he keeps himself up to date with them and change the tour route often to allow the enjoyment of the best of the lot!

Artist paints the wall white, waits for it to dry before staring to chisel it

This is definitely a tour to check out when in London, in fact it's a tour to go for every 6 months or so since the art is every changing. We highly recommend it!! :)

Here's a few more pieces for a feel of what you'll get to see. Enjoy!!