Paint Your London turns Walthamstow into a street art hot spot

Walthamstow has been having a lot going on street art wise for the past few years now. This month’s ‘Paint Your London‘ festival however is really starting to tip the balance. One which places the area up there with some of the best street art spots in the city.

Working alongside the likes of Wood Street Walls. That particular collective has been finding walls in Walthamstow for a while now. With some spots on Hoe Street in particular making the journey there completely worthwhile.

Now more walls are being found and over the month they are being painted by some of the best street artists working around the area today. Walthamstow has been getting ever cooler. Surely this ever growing love for street art is just going to make the place more popular.

Wood Street Walls are behind most of the murals in the area

Paint Your London

Part of the Mayor of London’s ‘Find Your London‘ festival. The area around Walthamstow, Waltham Forest, Chingford and Leytonstone and Leyton has been chosen to host some spectacular legal murals. This in itself is a part of a wider attempt to celebrate London’s outdoor spaces.

For Wood Street Walls, it also gives an opportunity to highlight the lack of affordable creative workspaces for artists. Creative spots, despite being themselves catalysts for regeneration have been disappearing around the capital. This is due to rent rises and new developments which take over areas once deemed affordable. It means that artists have to move ever further out.

mark mcclure walthamstow — This new work from Mark McClure can be seen on Forest Road

The result is some high quality artwork all within fairly easy walking distance and certainly accessible by public transport. It’s already caught the imagination of some of our blogging friends at HookedBlog and London Calling. What’s more a map has even been created here showing all the locations.

Paint Your London took place from 18-28 March 2016 and is part of the Mayor of London ‘Find Your London‘ festival. For more information you can visit the website here. Pictures in this post were taken on Sunday 27 March 2016.

Walthamstow street art gallery

There’s a fair bit of street art to see in the Stow, some created as part of the festival and some from other events organised by Wood Street Walls. This gallery showcases the work we came across when visiting over the Easter weekend.