Leeuwarden

Writer's Block

Henk Leutscher

Ayse GPL

Michel Velt

<div>Michel Velt for Writer’s Block Jam Leeuwarden, 2019.<br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/writersblockmurals/">@writersblockmurals</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/michelvelt/">@michelvelt</a></div>

Untitled

Roy Schreuder

Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert 

J.J. Slauerhoff

Klaas Lageweg

Baron Rengers

Zosen (ESP)

Mina Hamada

<div>Zosen (Spain) &amp; Mina Hamada (Japan) collaborated on this wall for the Writers Block Jam 2019 in the weekend of 12-14 july.&nbsp;</div>

Harke Broersma

Ron de Haan

<div>The Writer's block mural Art Festival asked Roy Schreuder to make a wall together with another artist of his choice. He chose the german Flying Fortress because he likes his work and he just likes to work together with him. Roy his wall is on the right and you can see animals from the area. on the bottum animals that live in the water, then land and than the sky.&nbsp;</div>

LJ van Tuinen

<div>Trompe-L'oeil painting of Sint Piter and Princess Firolien meeting each other with a magic mirror</div>

Sint Piter en Firolien

SONAC

<div>Photographer and artist SONAC, aka Sophie Photographe, places her animals in a new and unusual environment. SONAC takes pictures of the animals and then places them as posters at a new location. With her artworks, she tries to make people aware of the place animals occupy in our society. This lynx can be found above hotel Het Anker on the Eewal in Leeuwarden.<br><br>Made possible by Writer's Block Murals</div>

The Lynx

Laura

Emily Eldridge

<div>It's an ode to the componist Corelli. This work was comissioned by Writer's Block Murals.&nbsp;</div>

The magic of Music

Mr. Woodland

HokerOne

<div>Mr. Woodland (Germany) made this wall for the Writers Block Jam 2019. He chose to picture a girl riding a bike, a tipical dutch image. Funny detail is the Kingfisher on the bag of the girl. On Sunday his friend Hoker added the writing on the right: 'Stay patience and trust your journey'.&nbsp;</div>

Stay patient and trust your journey

j.deathrow

<div>The 058 was made by Harke Broersma and commissioned by the Graffitiplatform Leeuwarden. The birds are local (water) birds that live around Leeuwarden. The other side was made by <strong>J. Deathrow</strong>&nbsp;who did a pelican and a window. The third side was made together.&nbsp;</div>

Nelson Mandela

Juliana

Mendelssohn 

<div>This Mural is unfortunately removed because the wall was too moist and was destroying the painting. Apparently something is coming back in the spring of 2021.&nbsp;</div>

Maria Louise von Hessen Kassel

Flaviosolo

<div>Flavio Solo (Italy) made this X-man wall for the Writer's Block Mural Jam 2019. He first projected this picture and later added the colours. In the meantime he also had to do a work at Markt058 together with Diamond.&nbsp;</div>

Il sacrificio di Jean

Johannes Kolf

<div>Removed in 2021 - A mural from 2010 by Klaas Lageweg that shows the municipally of Leeuwarden has sustainable ambitions. The cow is called Us Mem (our mother). It's named after the perfect cow, around the corner there used to be a statue of it. It is now replaced to the rondabout at the Harlingertrekweg.&nbsp;</div>

Us Mem seit duurzaamheid

Enos

<div>Roy Schreuder made this mural in oktober 2017 to give some more attention to the new Mata Hari exhibition in the Fries Museum. Mata Hari was born in Leeuwarden in 1876 and became a legendary exotic dancer and was executed in 1917 because they thought she was a double spy.&nbsp;<br>In October 2020 the owner of the building unfortunately decided to remove to the painting.&nbsp;</div>

Mata Hari

<div>Comissioned by the district panel Heechterp/Schieringen in May/June 2011. Designed by Klaas Lageweg, co-executed by Harke Broersma, LJ van Tuinen and Ron de Haan.&nbsp;</div>

't oude Vliet en Schilkampen

Dagpauw vlinder

Zusters

Sake Ink

<div>Sake Ink / Sake Ieneka (Spain) made this wall for the Writer's Block Mural Jam 2019. He's usally makes portrets of both humans as animals, since some other people already decided to make some human portrets at the festival, he decided to make two owls on this wall.&nbsp;</div>

Nase Pop

<div>Nasepop (NL) actually got another spot, but this came free when another artist broke his colorbone. It was made during the Writer's Block Mural Art Jam (2019).</div>

Romeo

ETRS

Mega

<div>DNS Crew (ETRS, Romeo &amp; Mega) did a really nice piece on this Hall of Fame. You can find more on the other side of the water!</div>

This is a legal graffiti wall in Leeuwarden. Provided by users of legal-walls.net.<br /><br />
      <strong>Is this wall really legal?</strong><br />
      View <a href="https://www.legal-walls.net/wall/300?utm_source=api" target="_blank">the comments</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/legal-walls/how-to-assess-the-legality-of-a-graffiti-hall-of-fame-a27884696f34">check this post</a> for tips. 
      If it's public property, you should get in touch with local authorities. For private property, just contact the owner.<br /><br />
      <strong>Where does this information come from?</strong><br />
      Legal-walls is a crowd-sourced community. If you believe the wall is no longer there, or not legal, leave a comment by clicking the link below.

Sporthal Nylân

Aquaria

Gerhardus Jan Adema

Schoorsteenveger

Gabriel Pitcher

<div>Gabriel Pitcher (UK) made this wall for the Writers Block Jam 2019 in the weekend of 12-14 July. It's his first mural in a series about people's supernatural experiences. He's also planning a documentary video about the story.&nbsp; You can see it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Pl7YTxe3o0U</div>

<div>Ron de Haan for Writer’s Block Jam Leeuwarden 2019, found inside parking garage De Klanderij.<br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/writersblockmurals/">@writersblockmurals </a><br><br></div>

Tymon de Laat

<div>Tymon de Laat (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) made this mural for the Writer's Block Jam 2019 in the weekend of 12-14 July. This wall was inspired by his travels to Mexico where he porteyed this man in Oaxaca. A region that holds a great history with the destilation of mezcal. A spirit made by hard labour and preserves the sould of the Agave plant.&nbsp;</div>

Recuerdos del Mezcal

Miniature People Leeuwarden

<div>In the Haniasteeg you can also find 3 miniature people. They used to form a band. Because the wall where you can find them is the wall of Neushoorn, the local music stage. But someone destroyed the band, and there was only a leg left, so now you can find 3 men in white suits doing a investigation on the crime scene.&nbsp;If you choose the right position, you can make some funny compositions.&nbsp; The master mind behind the Miniature People Leeuwarden is Michel Tilma. A Local Leeuwarder who enjoyed creating all kind of photo's with miniature people. Since August 2019 he decided to start something new. He's leaving some miniature people in the city for us to find. Check some more awesome photo's on his instagram page and leave him a tag with #mpl058&nbsp; if you're sharing his photo's online. On his instagram page you can also find a Google-map to all his creations. There are more then 20 to spot! <br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/miniature_people_leeuwarden/">https://www.instagram.com/miniature_people_leeuwarden/</a>https://www.instagram.com/miniature_people_leeuwarden/</div>

The band / Men in white suits

De Visser

Helikopter bij het Sint Bonifatius Hospitaal

Aapke

Blik op het Verleden

De bevrijding  

<div>When you stand on the right spot, the box will dissapear in the wall like an optical illusion.&nbsp;</div>

Kasje

Kenny Cookwell

<div>New work by Kenny Cookwell, who also made the Grimm Reaper with the palmtree.&nbsp;</div>

Je paierai

<div>3D painting of water. You see a big carp swimming, waterplants like lely's and an accurate reflection of the 3D artwork wich stands in the middle.&nbsp;</div>

3D painitng Egg-reflection 

Pelikaan 

Zuster Desiree

Jan van der Noot

Mots

<div>MOTS (Porto, Portugal) made this mural for the Writers Block Jam 2019 in the weekend of 12-14th of July. The title 'Myśl' is the polish word for thought. And if you look closely you will see a human thinking really hard. MOTS mosly incorperates something from the city where he's making his artwork. but in this case there was no time to look around. He had to start immediately.&nbsp;</div>

Myśl

Skorrie Morrie

<div>This was made by a group of Cambuur Ultra's. The Anti-Boer tag on the side is a reference to the fooballclub SC Heerenveen. Who the Cambuur supporters call farmers, since they don't live in a city. The SC Heerenveen supporters immediately painted white and blue paint over it, but that was removed pretty quickly.&nbsp;<br>You can find this work on the top of the St. Stephansonsviaduct.</div>

Color Blind

Nash

B-Art

Ferdinand Bol

Kuiken

This is a legal graffiti wall in Sneek. Provided by users of legal-walls.net.<br /><br />
      <strong>Is this wall really legal?</strong><br />
      View <a href="https://www.legal-walls.net/wall/1635?utm_source=api" target="_blank">the comments</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/legal-walls/how-to-assess-the-legality-of-a-graffiti-hall-of-fame-a27884696f34">check this post</a> for tips. 
      If it's public property, you should get in touch with local authorities. For private property, just contact the owner.<br /><br />
      <strong>Where does this information come from?</strong><br />
      Legal-walls is a crowd-sourced community. If you believe the wall is no longer there, or not legal, leave a comment by clicking the link below.

oudvaart

Engelse Werk

Barbaar

This is a legal graffiti wall in Drachten. Provided by users of legal-walls.net.<br /><br />
      <strong>Is this wall really legal?</strong><br />
      View <a href="https://www.legal-walls.net/wall/972?utm_source=api" target="_blank">the comments</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/legal-walls/how-to-assess-the-legality-of-a-graffiti-hall-of-fame-a27884696f34">check this post</a> for tips. 
      If it's public property, you should get in touch with local authorities. For private property, just contact the owner.<br /><br />
      <strong>Where does this information come from?</strong><br />
      Legal-walls is a crowd-sourced community. If you believe the wall is no longer there, or not legal, leave a comment by clicking the link below.

Slingepark Drachten Netherlands

Cote del piano

cote create

<div>Collaboration by Cote Create and Cote del Piano. Made during the Writer's Block Jam 2019.&nbsp;<br>@writersblockmurals</div>

Cote Land

<div>The master mind behind the Miniature People Leeuwarden is Michel Tilma. A Local Leeuwarder who enjoyed creating all kind of photo's with miniature people. In August 2019 he decided to start something new. He's leaving some miniature people in the city for us to find. In the Bollemanssteeg you can even find 4 spots! There are three on this building, next to the three big white stickers with his name. There is also a fourth one on the opposite building, but you have to look a little better to find that one..no sticker here. <br>You can find some travellers here on the left and on the right side you can see some homless people. Check some more awesome photo's on his instagram page and leave him a tag with #mpl058. On his instagram page you can also find a Google-map to all his creations. There are more then 20 to spot!&nbsp;<br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/miniature_people_leeuwarden/">https://www.instagram.com/miniature_people_leeuwarden/</a></div>

The travellers pt 2 & 2 wanderers

This is a legal graffiti wall in Heerenveen. Provided by users of legal-walls.net.<br /><br />
      <strong>Is this wall really legal?</strong><br />
      View <a href="https://www.legal-walls.net/wall/1511?utm_source=api" target="_blank">the comments</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/legal-walls/how-to-assess-the-legality-of-a-graffiti-hall-of-fame-a27884696f34">check this post</a> for tips. 
      If it's public property, you should get in touch with local authorities. For private property, just contact the owner.<br /><br />
      <strong>Where does this information come from?</strong><br />
      Legal-walls is a crowd-sourced community. If you believe the wall is no longer there, or not legal, leave a comment by clicking the link below.

Jousterweg Heerenveen

Anna Bijns

<div>The travellers – The master mind behind the Miniature People Leeuwarden is Michel Tilma. A Local Leeuwarder who enjoyed creating all kind of photo's with miniature people. Since August 2019 he decided to start something new. He's leaving some miniature people in the city for us to find. In the Bagijnestraat you can also find 3 miniature people. If you choose the right position, you can make some funny compositions.&nbsp; Check some more awesome photo's on his instagram page and leave him a tag with #mpl058&nbsp; if you're sharing his photo';s online. On his instagram page you can also find a Google-map to all his creations. There are more then 20 to spot! In the Bagijnestraat alone there are already 4 other locations.<br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/miniature_people_leeuwarden/">https://www.instagram.com/miniature_people_leeuwarden/</a></div>

The travellers

Ludwig von Beethoven

This is a legal graffiti wall in Leeuwarden. Provided by users of legal-walls.net.<br /><br />
      <strong>Is this wall really legal?</strong><br />
      View <a href="https://www.legal-walls.net/wall/305?utm_source=api" target="_blank">the comments</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/legal-walls/how-to-assess-the-legality-of-a-graffiti-hall-of-fame-a27884696f34">check this post</a> for tips. 
      If it's public property, you should get in touch with local authorities. For private property, just contact the owner.<br /><br />
      <strong>Where does this information come from?</strong><br />
      Legal-walls is a crowd-sourced community. If you believe the wall is no longer there, or not legal, leave a comment by clicking the link below.

Camminghaburen

<div>This beautiful mural of <strong>Miyamoto Musashi</strong> was made by Klaas Lageweg under commission of the karate school Iryoku, that has a Dojo here.</div>

Myamoto Musashi

<div>This was the first mural made for the new Writer's Block Mural Festival in Leeuwarden. The second wall is made by Roy Schreuder and João. You can see a reference to the story of Adam and Eve (the apple). It's about greed. The raven is a symbol of Transcience. The geometric shapes are a reference to the symbols of Earth and air.&nbsp;</div>

<div>Made by LJ van Tuinen in 2012. This part of Leeuwarden was once the old Middle Sea that became new land after the sea silted up. The Van Loonstraat lies on the border of the Old and New land. Water is something that LJ van Tuinen associates with motion. The silting up of the Middle Sea toward new land is also motion, a visible change in the landscape during a timeperiod. The artwork is part of the tunnel, and this was an initiative from the municipally of Leeuwarden to make sure traffic moved better and safer along the city ring.&nbsp;<br>This place is also about in motion. Motion is the connection between the location and the theme of the artwork. The blue parts represent the water with shapes like fishes and the green the land with foodsteps. These shapes, about 180.000 give an optic illusion of motion. The legs in the land are an estetic addition to break the whole. The legs walk along the time towards the land and stop at the water, a period that will once come again.&nbsp;</div>

In motion

Mozart

Sweelinck  

Gieters. (Deel 1 magma)

<div>The tunnel of the regnerspad is covered in Graffiti. This is a legal place to do graffiti so most things are only temporarily here.&nbsp;</div>

Rengerspad (Hall of Fame)

This is a legal graffiti wall in Leeuwarden. Provided by users of legal-walls.net.<br /><br />
      <strong>Is this wall really legal?</strong><br />
      View <a href="https://www.legal-walls.net/wall/303?utm_source=api" target="_blank">the comments</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/legal-walls/how-to-assess-the-legality-of-a-graffiti-hall-of-fame-a27884696f34">check this post</a> for tips. 
      If it's public property, you should get in touch with local authorities. For private property, just contact the owner.<br /><br />
      <strong>Where does this information come from?</strong><br />
      Legal-walls is a crowd-sourced community. If you believe the wall is no longer there, or not legal, leave a comment by clicking the link below.

Kinderboerderij

CWU Crew

Graphic surgery

Sixmastraat

Kwartel

RoosArt

<div>RoosArt Paintings for Writer’s Block Jam Leeuwarden, 2019. The mural is a tribute to her little brother for his birthday. <br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/writersblockmurals/">@writersblockmurals</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/roosartpaintings/">@roosartpaintings</a></div>

Aéro

<div>An ode to the older people living in this building.&nbsp; It's comissioned by Writer's Block Murals.</div>

In the autumn of life

Joram Roukes

This is a legal graffiti wall in Leeuwarden. Provided by users of legal-walls.net.<br /><br />
      <strong>Is this wall really legal?</strong><br />
      View <a href="https://www.legal-walls.net/wall/302?utm_source=api" target="_blank">the comments</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/legal-walls/how-to-assess-the-legality-of-a-graffiti-hall-of-fame-a27884696f34">check this post</a> for tips. 
      If it's public property, you should get in touch with local authorities. For private property, just contact the owner.<br /><br />
      <strong>Where does this information come from?</strong><br />
      Legal-walls is a crowd-sourced community. If you believe the wall is no longer there, or not legal, leave a comment by clicking the link below.

Stephensonviaduct (zuid)

autre fille

<div>Dutch artist Autre Fille for Writer’s Block Jam Leeuwarden, 2019.<br><br></div>

Havank

Jeugdhonk Rengerspark

Roodborstje

<div>Amazing trompe-l-oeil mural. The bridge is made out of cheese. In the big pieces of cheese you'll see different scenes that all about Aldeboarn's past.&nbsp; Such ass the cheese factory, a part of Kneppelfreed, Jorrit Bergsma, two hand cutting a rope wich refers to Aldeboarnsters nickname and more</div>

Havik 

<div>This mural was made in 2012 when it was 400 years ago since Saskia van Uylenburgh was born in Leeuwarden. She would later marry Rembrandt van Rijn.&nbsp;</div>

Saskia van Uylenburgh

De elfstedentocht

Inktpot

Demo1

LSD Crew

<div>This mural of the <strong>coat of arms of Leeuwarden</strong> was made by Enos and Demo1 from the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/LSD-Crew">LSD crew</a> (Live Spray Die Crew).&nbsp;</div>

Coat of Arms of Leeuwarden

Harlingen

Groningen

Den Helder

Zwolle

Lelystad

Hoorn

<div>Op deze wandeling ga je in de Vosseparkwijk op zoek naar versierde elektriciteitskastjes. Dat is bijna allemaal het werk van Roy Schreuder. Deze wandelroute is ongeveer 4 km lang. Op de website van A Guide to Leeuwarden kun je ook de verhalen achter deze werken ontdekken.&nbsp;<br><br></div>

Vosseparkwijk

<div>In the summer of 2019 the Writer's Block Mural Art Festival did a Jam at the parkinglot the Klanderij. More than 35 artists showed their work and turned the grey and boring parkinglot into a colorful building. Don't forget to check the inside.&nbsp; Check their webiste at: <a href="https://writersblockmurals.com/jam/">https://writersblockmurals.com/jam/</a></div>

Rondom de Klanderij (Writers Block Jam 2019)

<div>A bike trip along the bigger walls in Leeuwarden</div>

The big ones (bike trip)

<div>Street art tour by A Guide to Leeuwarden and printed in the USE-It Leeuwarden Map: Experience Leeuwarden in a whole new way, looking beyond the main attractions to discover the art on street corners, signposts and alleyways. This route incorporates the best Leeuwarden Street Art! Walk around the Train station to dicover the best pieces at the van Loonstraat gym and below the St. Stepensonsviaduct.&nbsp;</div>

Tour around the train station

<div>Walking tour along the new artworks that are commisioned by the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WritersBlockLeeuwarden/">Writer's Block - Mural Art Festival</a> in 2018.&nbsp;</div>

Writer's Block - Mural Art Festival 2018 

<div>A walking route around the neighborhood Achter de Hoven. It starts with a mural and contineus with many electricity boxes that have been painted.&nbsp;</div>

Achter de Hoven

<div>Een wandeling rondom de Transvaalwijk langs een heleboel versierde elektriciteitskastjes.&nbsp;</div>

Rengerspark, Bonifatius & Transvaalwijk

<div>Op deze wandeling ga je in de Vogel- &amp; Muziekwijk op zoek naar versierde elektriciteitskastjes. Deze wandelroute is ongeveer 4 km lang.<br>Op de website van A Guide to Leeuwarden kun je ook een routekaart vinden die je kunt uitprinten en ontdek je de verhalen achter de werken.&nbsp;</div>

Welcome to Leeuwarden

Explore the city

Recently added artworks

Our favorite places

Nearby hunting grounds