Street Art: Anna Laurini

Earlier this summer, I came across a few brightly-coloured sketches of women's faces across east London. A few of these had an encouraging message, such as "be yourself". More kept popping up, and I eventually saw the artist painting the long wall near Shoreditch High Street station during one of my lunch breaks. She was adding to the wall, which already contains street art, and around the existing street art. The artist is Anna Laurini. 

Anna Laurini studied art in London, and she has worked in London and New York. She enjoys using bright colours and adding positive messages for the visitors. Her work uses a lot of expression, such as the quick and fluid shapes of the figures she creates.  

I visited the wall again when it was finished and snapped up a few more photographs. Anna's new additions of artwork to this wall add a bright splash of colours and encouraging messages for busy and stressed Londoners. Some of the encouraging messages are:

• "The world we will invent"
• "You make me real"
• "To live means to be aware"
• "Let your children play"
• "Unveil yourself, and things will be unveiled"
• "The street is life"
• "Take a long holiday"
• "Together, we are stronger"
• "Art is to enjoy"
• "Where there is love, there is life"

I captured a few more photographs of Anna Laurini's work across east London. These could be discovered on and just off of Brick Lane, near Old Street (at the end of Rivington Street), and on Redchurch Street. Like the previous wall, these had messages:

• "I don't explain"
• "My blue romance"
• "If you can keep me, I like to stay"
• "Such a perfect day"
• "It's time for something great"
• "We should all shine"
• "Be yourself"

I found some shutters decorated by Anna Laurini on Redchurch Street.

The final work from this artist was discovered on the way to Broadway Market one weekend. I snapped a photograph of the following wall with more bright colours, faces, and writing.

For more information about the artist, view her Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/anna-laurini/) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/annalaurini) or official website (http://www.saatchionline.com/annalaurini).