Top 50 Spray Paint Artists You Need to Know About (And Their Iconic Work)

I am a Bristol based artist and my artwork features urban landscapes of my home town and beyond. My paintings feature graffiti covered buildings or abandoned spaces, and document the changes taking place across many cities, highlighting vast differences in many cities and gentrification which has taken place in recent years. My art is based on my photography as I often take photos of daily life or scenes in cities which I reproduce as art in my own style. I work with spray paint and paint pens producing colourful recognisable artwork. My art varies and features well known landmarks of a city such a the Clifton Suspension Bridge or Harbourside cranes in Bristol, contrasting to graffiti covered alleyways or boarded up buildings. I also paid the night scenes of cities from all over the world such as London, New York and other cities, painting vibrant skylines with light trails and reflections of light. I paint most days and use any spare time I get to work on new paintings, I find the painting process therapeutic and part of my daily routine.

My name is Sophie-Rose Walters and I am a Birmingham based artist. I have been massively involved in the art scene from a very young age. I specialise In fine liner black and white art, graffiti art, oil paint and ink work. My paintings are usually abstract as I like to experiment with colour and texture. I like to make my own stencils for my artwork. I like to use influences of Andy Warhol and Piet Mondrian. I admire how simple yet creative the work of these artists was. I recently got more involved In the Digbeth art scene of Birmingham by being involved in a small exhibition along side other artists to which I displayed 10 pieces of work and sold smaller prints of my work in the gallery shop. I am hoping to extend my knowledge and become more involved in the art scene all over the country as I like to meet other artists and exchange ideas of ways I can make my art better, what I could do differently and how I could portray it differently. I find this helps.

Mandy Payne is an award-winning painter/ printmaker based in Sheffield. Originally, she trained as a dentist and worked in the Community and Hospital Dental services for 25 years. She had a career change in 2012 to work as a full-time artist, shortly before graduating from the University of Nottingham in 2013 with a BA Fine Art. Since then, she has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. Her work is inspired by urban landscape and issues of gentrification. Interested in Brutalist architecture and in particular, social housing. She works with materials that have a physical connection to the sites she depicts, namely concrete and spray paint.

Kieran is an abstract painter based in Sheffield. He predominantly uses spray paint, stencils, sandpaper and a wallpaper scraper loaded with runny paint to create imagined cityscapes and landscapes. His cityscapes seek to deconstruct what a city is; energy, bright lights, social and material decay. His landscapes are designed to be quiet and calming. Whereas most stencil artists decide what they want to paint and design the stencil accordingly, when creating his compositions Kieran works the other way around. He has a large collection of simple stencils of different shapes, sizes and patterns and uses these same stencils to build different compositions. The placement of one shape informs the placement of the next. Parts of the composition are sanded back and thin layers of paint are applied over the top. This gives sections of the composition a faded and worn feel. Thicker paint and super crisp edges are used elsewhere to create contrasts of texture and colour.