Montreal-based artist and muralist Kevin Ledo recently spent some time in London. The Canadian street artist was returning from a trip to Amsterdam and stopped over in London en route back to Montreal and wanted to paint a mural while he was in the city.

Portrait of Charlie Burns

London artist Ben Slow managed to connect Ledo with a wall he could paint in East London, but there were some conditions attached to painting the location. The site on Bacon Street just off the vibrant Brick Lane has for many years featured a tribute mural to the late Charlie Burns painted by Ben Slow.

For a number of years, Ben’s much-loved portrait murals of Charlie Burns had run with little or no damage, but the original portrait was vandalized around 2013 and Ben repainted the mural with a second portrait of Burns.

Unfortunately, the tribute piece was recently tagged over and Ben felt the damage to the mural was beyond repair. Slow offered the wall at the location to Ledo on the condition that the piece he painted featured another portrait of Charlie Burns, continuing the tribute wall.