BlokOne 'Love Bombed' Release Details

Artist: BlokOne
Title: Love Bombed
Medium: Aerosol & Oil Paint on Paper
Size: 30 x 42 cm
Edition: 25 (UNIQUE)
Price: £225

*available at 9am EST on Thursday October 30th, 2025

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Blok One is a contemporary British artist who keeps his legal name out of public view. All published interviews, gallery bios, and agency listings refer to him only by the studio tag “Blok One,” so his birth name remains unpublished at present. What is on record is a clear visual signature: large, explosive paintings and murals that splice hard-edge geometry with freestyle graffiti marks. Spray paint, household emulsion, ripped paper, and thick resin are layered on reclaimed boards or directly on brick, producing glossy, scarred surfaces that feel like city walls frozen mid-party. Color palettes jump from warning orange and taxi-cab yellow to bruised purples, often arranged in concentric squares or fractured letterforms that suggest collapsing signage.

The artist cites early 1980s New York subway writing, 1990s Bristol scene stencils, and Bauhaus color theory as equal influences, a mash-up he calls “organised chaos.” Process shots reveal preliminary vector sketches on a tablet, but every finished piece is completed by hand, sometimes augmented with hand-cut mirror tiles that catch passing headlights or gallery spotlights.

Blok One’s output swings between studio canvases sold through online drops and major street commissions. Recent walls in Shoreditch, Digbeth, and Barcelona’s Poblenou district present optically dizzy portals—rings within rings that seem to recede into the masonry. Public reaction tends to split between viewers who photograph themselves inside the illusion and taggers who leave throw-ups across the lower edges, a dialogue the artist welcomes as part of urban living.

Workshops, limited-print releases, and collaborative apparel lines help fund larger independent murals, keeping the practice fluid and self-directed. For now, the figure behind the name stays intentionally in shadow, letting the bold geometries and color bursts speak for themselves.