Word to Mother - Leake Street — artwork #10157 by Word to Mother · London, United Kingdom
graffiti pastel figure hood earthy mask
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Word to Mother is a London-based British artist raised in a southern English seaside town. He started writing graffiti as a teenager in the early 2000s, then gradually shifted to a figurative illustration practice in watercolour, marker and paint, with an instantly recognisable melancholic pastel palette. His works blend female figures, wrestlers, animals and childhood fragments, laid on salvaged…
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Added 19/05/2026
A mural painted in August 2008 by Word to Mother in the Leake Street graffiti tunnel beneath Waterloo Station in London. The piece deploys his signature visual grammar: a figure in a green hood with masked face, gloved hands reaching down, architectural background fragments and a fragmented 'WORD TO MOTHER' inscription, in the artist's signature earthy pastel palette.
The artwork Word to Mother - Leake Street is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of London in United Kingdom, more precisely here: Leake Street Tunnel, Waterloo, London SE1 7NN.
This graffiti is also tagged as: pastel, figure, hood, earthy, mask.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Word to Mother
The photo was published on 19-05-2026 by an unknown hunter.
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