Stinkfish

Stinkfish is street artist from Colombia and produces Street Art London town. Today he was painting this fantastic doorway over in East London. Street Art London caught up with him to take some shots as you can see below…

I personally admire the work of stinkfish because of the way the pieces capture you. The innovative and innate use of colours in the work, vibrant, colourful, the free flowing strokes from the central image which captures main features in a deep black works well giving contrast. The art work to me depicts a sense of freedom and prosperity, culture and beauty. Most stinkfish street has a basis of a real life photographed portrait; from this he uses the harmonic brushstrokes to depict features emotion and life. The designs tell a story almost and highlight many things one of which is identity. The swirling psychedelic designs remind us that sometimes love is an altered state.

I've drawn inspiration from Sinkfish in sense that I understand how the use of colour impacts on the images overall ability to provoke analytic thought and spur emotion. Building on these techniques i hope to incorporate such colour in my work along the line.