Before the holidays, artist Amara Por Dios painted the large Village Underground mural off Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch. Amara is a Swedish artist, and she has been to London quite a few times to paint the streets. Some of her previous work can be seen on the following post (Street Art: Amara and others), and she contributed to #WallsProject earlier last summer, and her painting on scaffolding on Leonard Street can be seen here.
The mural is black and white with bold black lines and features several grotesque-looking faces. Normally, her works use bright and bold colours, but this piece and another piece that I saw completed at the same time as this mural seem to be an experiment without colour.
The other black and white piece was painted at the same time as the Village Underground mural.
I have captured a few of her other pieces of work from summer of last year as she has been quite busy in London and a lot of her work was in prime-location street art walls.
I loved the below image as she creatively used the traffic control box and incorporated it into her artwork on the scaffolding.
The following large wall on Sclater Street was painted not long before the Village Underground mural. It appeared in the autumn and I also saw its progress.
For more information about the artist, visit her website: http://amarapordios.blogspot.co.uk or her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AmaraPorDios
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