Brighton and Hove
DON’T SQUEEZE – Graffiti Canvas
When you realise they were going in for a fist bump and not a handshake, AWKWARD!!!! ???????????????????????????????????? Who else has had the moment when you go to shake a hand and you're met with a fist! Do you squeeze the fist or do you turn the shake into a bump?...
Art on Spray Cans
I try and use as much of the paint in a can as possible. The last squirts of paint in some of my paint cans go on other empty spray paint cans. That's almost recycling art right?! I have given these cans away to friends kids and then they draw on them with a sharpie...
Art of Van Style Trainers
From rags to riches!! I always get spray paint on my clothes, especially my trainers so I decided to make a NEW pair so everything was fresh and clean and I could actually wear these to an art show I was exhibiting at. I am not a show-off and these started as a basic...
If you love art, you’ll love Brighton, well and Hove as they were brought together as one city in the year 2000.
Brighton is full of colourful street art ranging from the normal Graffiti tags to full buildings murals. Many houses, businesses and shop fronts have been given a colourful and creative personality, you just want to take photos, well I do anyway. This is great publicity for the businesses the art is on as people share it across social media platforms!
Brighton is certainly a place that is well photographed and has become one of the most used hashtag on Instagram, especially related to pictures of graffiti street art. When I last checked the hashtag on Instagram #Brighton, had a whopping 6,855,500 posts/photographs and most were related to graffiti street art, graffiti tags and spray paintings.
I think experiencing day trips to Brighton as a child and seeing the art scene is where my love of art secretly began. Then in 2017, meeting one of the most iconic and prolific graffiti artists in the world named “AROE” inspired me to paint. This was the very first time I picked up a spray can and got creative and started designing sunglasses. This friendship allowed me to watch, learn and experience art in a totally different way from what I remember art being like at school. In under two years, I was selling some of my art all around the world.
Here is one of my many fun trips out with AROE.
This typical day out with AROE was filmed around Brighton and it doesn’t really capture the city, but it does show that people embrace art, even inside the shops, like the barbershop you saw in the video. Art was never the norm for me, but it certainly is now, and I love it!
Aroe jets around the world painting on trains, buildings and often creates original canvases and runs of prints for top galleries that sell for thousands. His latest project is creating unique crypto art!
Brighton is full of diversity, people, food and beliefs, a great city to experience if you get the opportunity. My advice is to book a trip to Brighton and Hove and experience what it has to offer.