HERAKUT

My mum got me into Herakut a few years ago, Herakut is a collaboration of the aliases Hera and Akut, two graffiti artists, one male and one female from Frankfurt and Erfurt respectively. Working together since 2004, Herakut combine deeply contrasting styles – Akut’s photorealist spray paint, with Hera’s more traditional painterly methods – to create highly stylised street works. This year me and my brother and sister got her this book for her birthday, its called "The Perfect merge".

I just love the weird, dark beauty of the paintings, the images always stick in my head. The way they paint skin is amazing, it has a sort of dewy glow. In the surreal mix of sketch and photo realism they always manage to capture a moment in time in the eyes of the character.

This is my absolute favourite painting....

it's called "Street Dart" and my mum is lucky enough to have the original sketch.

To look at more work by Herakut click here.