Last autumn, street artists Bisser and Nils Westergard were in London, and I've only recently just come across a collaboration. Bisser is an artist from Belgium who was inspired by the mixture between comic books and grafitti. He painted a mural of a pig on Bacon Street last year. Nils Westergard is an American street artist, and he usually paints female portraits in black and white with different shades of grey. Both artists collaborated on their mural in the railway arches in Hoxton. The mural features two faces in each unique style by the artists. Bisser's more abstract piece incorporates the building furniture. He turns he door into a red mouth and puts hands around an air duct to turn it into a camera.
The below photograph is a detail of the work by Nils Westgard, who paints in a realistic impressionistic style using black and white paint to create portaits. His portraits are usually females, but he does also paint other subjects.
The detail below is the collaboration by Bisser and his care at integrating the building into his portait. His work is whimsical, and it's easy to see that he was inspired by comics and design.
In addition to the work above, I also discovered another painting on the same wall. The painting is of a very large spider; I think most people would run away if they saw one that large. Luckily, it was just a realistic painting. The work is by JPS, and I've come across some of his other work in the past; it took me a minute to realise where I saw his work before, but it was in his home town of Weston-super-Mare and Bristol. (I used to live near Weston-super-Mare.) JPS's work is comical and references popular culture, and he has a lot of respect for Banksy.
For more information about JPS, see the Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/JPSstreetart/
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