Toward the end of last year, street artist WRDSMITH visited London. The artist hails from California (he was actually born in Ohio, which is the same state I was born in) and is a Hollywood writer for television as well as a street artist. He pastes up or stencils artwork onto buildings. The artwork is normally accompanied by a vintage typewriter stencil and contains a quote or a thought.
We should be somewhere in London. We could be loving our life in the rain.
I came across several pieces from the artist toward the end of last year or beginning of this year. Some of them were paste-ups on walls in east London, but I also saw a couple of red phone boxes in west London with a panel of the artist's work. (Unfortunately, I cannot locate my photographs of those.)
The writing is often witty.
Truth told, I only put this here because I'm hoping you Instagram it.
I couldn't resist adding the image below as it was in some of the other pieces of street art and blends so well together. The female with the umbrella paste-ups on old newsprint are by the artist C3, whose work I have seen in London a few times previously. The above two pieces were a collaboration between both artists. I believe that C3 is based in London, and she has been inspired by street art since 2011.
More information about C3 can be seen here: http://www.c3art.co.uk/about-c3/
WRDSMITH's page can be viewed here: https://www.facebook.com/WRDSMTHinLA
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