Street Art: Villanaart

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Victoria Villasana (also known as Villanaart) is a Mexican yarn bomb artist, and she is currently based in London. Her work combines two-dimensional fine art with yarn or string. (Yarn-bombing is the term used for street art created with yarn.) The artwork is usually rendered without colour, and it is the yarn or string that adds the colour and detail. The yarn may be added as clothing, tears, a pattern on the skin, or another part of the image that the user wishes to draw attention to. Villasana also runs "Style Marmalade" website in which she collaborates with many other creatives in the fields of fashion, design, and photography. I was able to take a few photographs of her artwork that I came across in east London over the past few months, but I have noticed that she's pasted her pieces across various areas of London.

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Mother and child from 'Calias Jungle'

The next piece was a collaboration with StinkfishStink, another Mexican artist that I have previously covered on this website. The portrait of the young girl is an example of his abstract portraits with geometrical shapes, and Villiasana added the yarn.

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Next, a tribute to da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' piece was given orange tears.

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Mona Lisa

The artist created a few tributes to David Bowie, the singer who passed away in January. 

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A tribute to David Bowie

The below image was a collaboration with Helen Martin in a selection titled "Little Angels"

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Collaboration with Helen Martin

For more information and to see more of the artist's work, view her Instagram feed at: https://www.instagram.com/villanaart/

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