We had seen some work-in-progress images shared on social media on a Friday and with bitterly cold temperatures we were surprised to hear that internationally renowned, street artist Phlegm was still painting a street art mural in these low temperatures in East London.

Artist Phlegm's Walthamstow Street Art

Pulling on a few additional layers of clothing before venturing out and grabbing our camera, we caught the overground train further east to St. James Street in Walthamstow, London.

Painting just down the street from the overground station along Cooper Street, street artist Phlegm was well into his third day working on the mural, starting a little later than he normally would on account of the colder temperatures.

Arriving at the wall a small group had gathered to watch the artist at work on his mural along with a few familiar faces who were at the location taking pictures of the artist - Julie from Instagrafite, Nelly Monoprixx, Dean from NotBanksyForum, and artist D6707 had all venture east to see Phlegm at work on this new mural.

For his latest artwork, artist Phlegm has been commissioned by the community organization St James Street Big Local to paint the mural on the wall of the international supermarket with the Forest Recycling Project providing the masonry paint for the wall.








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Phlegm's Miniature Print Series

During one of a number of much-needed coffee breaks, Phlegm showed us some of his latest studio pieces. He has been working on a number of copperplate etchings and wood engravings, creating new miniature cigarette card series of prints.




These tiny works are only just slightly bigger than an average-sized match stick, but despite their small scale Phlegm has managed to pack a phenomenal amount of detail into these tiny etchings.

We got to see three of these amazing miniature editions by the artist as he talked us through the process. He explained to us he hopes to have them scanned high res when he has completed a collection he is happy with and make a small publication of the editions which he hopes to include a screen-printed cover as he did with his previous self-published book.

Coffee brake over and the mini prints were packed away safely before they blew outta one of our hands as the wind picked up.

Phlegm's Walthamstow Mural

For his St.James Street mural, Phlegm has chosen to depict a black-and-white image of a triplane. If like us you had to ask what a triplane is, we were told it is a fixed-winged plane equipped with three stacked wing planes.

It is not the first time we have seen Phlegm paint a fantastic flying machine and this latest work has connections with the neighborhood it is painted. Phlegms' work depicts the triplane developed by Edwardian engineer, Alliott Verdon Roe who was based in one of the railway arches in Walthamstow Marshes.

According to St. James Street Big Local, the project is the culmination of consultations held with local residents during the first phase of the Big Local project. Residents fed back that they would like to see additional artwork in the area.