One of the walls on Bacon Street between the little shops there was previously painted with a mural of local Charlie Burns by Ben Slow (see more from the artist here: Street Art: Ben Slow). I covered the original mural here: Charlie Burns mural by Ben Slow, and there was a different mural of the local man by the same artist a few years previously. Charlie Burns was a local well-known figure around this area, and he would often sit in a car on Bacon Street and watch people until his death in 2012. He used to run a shop here, and the shop is now run by his children. The murals were painted in honor of him.
The latest mural of him on Bacon Street did not last as long as the previous one, and it was looking in bad shape from late last year. Someone had tagged over it, and once this happens, it does not take too long for the piece to become destroyed. Ben Slow asked Kevin Ledo to paint the wall with a new tribute to Charlie Burns, and he did so with the help of Charlie's family and locals who remember Charlie.
Kevin Ledo is from Montreal, Canada. He has painted all over the world, and most of his work feature portraits. The portraits are either realistic or have an abstract bold colour pattern imposed onto them. The Charlie Burns mural features a portrait of the man painted from the same photograph that Ben Slow used, which is why it looks like an exact copy of Ben Slow's underneath the red paint.
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