Ben Eine paints large-scale text onto buildings, shutters, and walls in London, and several of his art pieces exist in East London. The text painted uses various fonts and contains a word to provoke emotions in the viewer. The words 'Scary' and 'Extortionist' are examples. He's been busy recently as several pieces have been recently completed.
Originally, Ben started out as a writer and eventually developed a typographic style of street art in bold fonts and colours. His work has been presented to US President Obama by Prime Minister David Cameron. He's now known internationally.
I've photographed a few of his artwork that I've discovered in East London.
'Scary' is painted on Rivington Street.
Ebor Street - 'Protagonist'
Ebor Street - this piece by Ben Eine was painted over by Ben Eine in February of 2013. It read 'Anti Anti Anti'.
Ebor Street - Ben Eine works on his new street art.
Ebor Street - the finished Ben Eine artwork. It reads 'Extortionist'.
Ebor Street - 'Tagonist'.
Ebor Street - Ben Eine work in progress.
Often, it is difficult to get photographs when the shops are open and the shutters are up. The street (Middlesex and Cobb Street) has each letter of the alphabet in alphabetical order.
Ben Eine
Cobb Street; Ben Eine wrote each letter of the alphabet on each shutter on the street here. You can see a partial 'd' and a 'e' here.
These blocks of letters make up an outside wall near Liverpool Street Station.
Ben Eine was busy creating this "this sounds better in the day" text around a make-shift building area near Spitalfields church.
'Happy'
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