Decorative painter John Schijf restored an old, weathered mural – a historic wall advertisement dating from the time when oil and coal were still sold to private individuals. ‘De Kolenmijn’ (The Coal Mine) moved in 1959, but the mural has been preserved.
Street art lover/walker/photographer/researcher irl children’s book publisher, author and translator, living in Rotterdam. My favourite place in the world is London and in particular the area around Brick Lane (Shoreditch).
My avatar is a picture taken at the corner of Braithwaite Street and Bethnal Green Road (Shoreditch, London) of a street art poster by Shepard Fairey and Damien Hirst: Third Eye Butterfly Mandala.