I love turning a corner around my S Ldn patch, and then OH MY DAYS, another new mural has appeared.
Create without permission, as we use to say back in the day.
But I suspect that Spanish artist Sebas Velasco did seek permission before he painted his beautiful new piece of work on the side of Broadstone House along Cobbett Street, SW8.
It’s titled ‘Yves’ - a local young fella from Brixton, standing on the Brixton mainline platform.
The art may - or may not - be long for this world. It’s right at the heart of the failed South Lambeth Estate ‘regeneration.’
If Lambeth can be arsed to get its act together after more than a decade of stalling, then we may soon have another soulless, uniform development springing up soon.
Then again.
When regeneration stalls, the streets speak.
Or something.
