There are always modicums of plant beauty to be found, even in the most urban of streets. It is likely though, that often we don’t take up those viewing opportunities because the specimens in question are either too small, too common, or in places where we just don’t think to look or need to stop. …

Has anybody noticed the way vine plants are creeping into the design of the Beatty Street Mural in Vancouver? It is as if they seem to know exactly where to go and how to perfectly accentuate the look of each individual rendered. An eye-patch to David Suzuki, a goatee for Terry Fox, a bit more …

Do you ever wake up in the morning and think your hair seems a little all over the place. Count yourself lucky, some out there have truly wild hair. Cleverly creative street artists incorporate living plants into their artwork by using nearby vegetation to add hair to their subjects heads. When done well it offers …

In any good neighbourhood you will find a range of personality types – the hoity-toity one, the space-cadet, the sensitive one, the intellectual, the dreamer, the complete nutter – you know, the usual crowd. Between Broughton and Jervis on Pendrell Street in the West End of Vancouver, you can find all of the above, just …

Street artist ATM paints naturalistic representations of endangered birds on empty walls in London. The birds are not tiny like birds generally are, but magnified to cover large expanses of brickwork or concrete. Take a look at his birds, they are quite brilliant. Set against manufactured surroundings, each bird’s colour and form seems strikingly exotic …

There is only one real drive in Vancouver and it is called Commercial Drive.  A place where cultural difference and creative endeavour form the cornerstones of community. There are uniquely painted walls all along the Drive, but from around Adanac Street to 1st Avenue there is a particularly high density of street art sprayed and sloshed across …