Street Arts
Busk has been in the game close on twenty five years now and has painted an array of surfaces, characters, letters, portraits, abstracts, photo-realism and then some… Busk commands great respect in his chosen field by other writers and artists though lately our boy has been on the mushrooms. Now before anyone goes rushing off to grab some handcuffs and boot the poor lads door down, we are of course speaking of the painted variety.
Busk himself says 'Im painting mushrooms and don't care if no-one likes them, its what i want to paint. Its all about mushrooms right now' We of course expected him to say magic mushrooms, Amanita Muscaria and a bunch of other hallucinogenic fungi to which he un-interestingly replied 'maybe' . We pushed a little more…what no magic mushrooms, you losing the plot or what. You cant do mushrooms without any magic…can you…Listen said the botanist 'there will be magic but not the kind your hoping for, there's thousands of amazing looking fungi out there' He showed us some online shots and we too were amazed at the shapes and form of countless fungi. Though as he left the office we shoved our prized Plant of the Gods (Richard Schultes, Albert Hofmann etc) in his bag and live in hope of a big ass muscaria...
- Christiaan Nagel's Mushrooms - South Africa
Christiaan's mushrooms have graced the streets of East London for sometime now. The artist has since broadened the canvas and places his distinctive mushrooms around the globe. The latest pieces are placed in South Africa...and yes that's Table...
- Christiaan Nagel Tags Tower Bridge
One of the great things about street art is the fact you never know where to look if you want to find it. The only problem now is not looking suspicious while searching for hidden art, alas we fear not. Christiaan has been on the street art radar for...
- Old Skool Graffiti Artist Busk Paints Lord Napier
Old Skool graffiti artist Busk relived part of his youth as he threw up his calling sign on the Lord Napier pub. In days gone by no permission would be sought for this particular hideaway in Hackney Wick. Today though, Busk has the full permission of...
- White Cross Street Party - Today & Tomorrow
Its the first time we've been to a White Cross Street art event and we really didnt know what to expect. Firstly the flyer just said White Cross Street and didnt mention a venue, we thought great, now we have to wonder up n down trying to find the...
- Busk, Bleach & Zadok - Legit Work November 2009
Legit Work... Old Skool Graffiti Artists Busk, Zadok and Bleach were commissioned to paint this wall in West London. Its taken about three weeks to create freehand so the lads were happy to finish the project and move up plans for their next projects....
Street Arts
Old Skool Graffiti Head Busk on Mushrooms
Busk himself says 'Im painting mushrooms and don't care if no-one likes them, its what i want to paint. Its all about mushrooms right now' We of course expected him to say magic mushrooms, Amanita Muscaria and a bunch of other hallucinogenic fungi to which he un-interestingly replied 'maybe' . We pushed a little more…what no magic mushrooms, you losing the plot or what. You cant do mushrooms without any magic…can you…Listen said the botanist 'there will be magic but not the kind your hoping for, there's thousands of amazing looking fungi out there' He showed us some online shots and we too were amazed at the shapes and form of countless fungi. Though as he left the office we shoved our prized Plant of the Gods (Richard Schultes, Albert Hofmann etc) in his bag and live in hope of a big ass muscaria...
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- Christiaan Nagel's Mushrooms - South Africa
Christiaan's mushrooms have graced the streets of East London for sometime now. The artist has since broadened the canvas and places his distinctive mushrooms around the globe. The latest pieces are placed in South Africa...and yes that's Table...
- Christiaan Nagel Tags Tower Bridge
One of the great things about street art is the fact you never know where to look if you want to find it. The only problem now is not looking suspicious while searching for hidden art, alas we fear not. Christiaan has been on the street art radar for...
- Old Skool Graffiti Artist Busk Paints Lord Napier
Old Skool graffiti artist Busk relived part of his youth as he threw up his calling sign on the Lord Napier pub. In days gone by no permission would be sought for this particular hideaway in Hackney Wick. Today though, Busk has the full permission of...
- White Cross Street Party - Today & Tomorrow
Its the first time we've been to a White Cross Street art event and we really didnt know what to expect. Firstly the flyer just said White Cross Street and didnt mention a venue, we thought great, now we have to wonder up n down trying to find the...
- Busk, Bleach & Zadok - Legit Work November 2009
Legit Work... Old Skool Graffiti Artists Busk, Zadok and Bleach were commissioned to paint this wall in West London. Its taken about three weeks to create freehand so the lads were happy to finish the project and move up plans for their next projects....