Brighton and Hove
DESIRES OF CLARITY Graffiti Spray Paint Canvas
This has a few deep embedded neon colours, pink, yellow with other matt colours like purple, blue, black, silver and white. This can be hung horizontally or vertically MISSED IT - GONE!
Art On Old Van Style Trainers
This summer I used the £8 Primark Van Style trainers when I painted as I didn't want to ruin my more expensive trainers! When I spray paint I can't avoid getting it on my feet, unless I put bags on them! When the paint had almost ruined the trainers I decided to paint...
DISTORTED SHADOW – Graffiti Spray Paint Canvas
Fluorescent pink/reds and yellow with black, silver and white detail. We all have to find a way to stand out from the crowd. Like this design using colours to speak each person will have a different opinion on which is more dominant. Is it one that has more or one...
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.