Jo Peel has made a living capturing city streets in stylish illustrations that turn even the dingiest of locales into places viewers would want to visit. She purposefully leaves out human subjects in order to draw more attention to the sites she paints, letting audiences enjoy architecture and street signs unimpeded by diversions. Put in the context of art, these street depictions highlight just how beautiful cities are in their tranquility.
Jo Peel currently resides in London, England, and is a part of the renowned Scrawl Collective. Her work has taken her to New York, Japan and Hong Kong, and her paintings are regularly exhibited within the UK. She explains that “everyday scenes and scenarios” are her muse, and that she’s willing to recreate places with a paint brush from all walks of life.
Why This Trend Is Growing
- Stylized Cityscapes
- Creating artistic depictions of city streets through stylized illustrations offers innovative opportunities to disrupt the traditional way of promoting travel destinations.
- Human-free Street Art
- Eliminating human subjects from artwork that highlights city streets can offer a refreshing and novel approach to urban landscape art.
- Tranquil Urban Aesthetics
- Reimagining cityscapes through an aesthetic filter, emphasizing their peaceful and serene aspects, is a fresh take on urban landscape depictions.
Industries Being Reshaped
- Tourism
- Efforts to promote unique travel experiences through stylized cityscape artwork can provide new opportunities for tourism advertising.
- Visual Arts
- Incorporating human-free depictions of urban landscapes may add novelty to the traditional urban landscape art genre.
- Urban Planning
- Reframing cityscapes as tranquil and peaceful through stylized street depictions can improve public perception of cities, and potentially inform urban planning decisions.
