Street art tour guide Nelly Balazs, left, with artist Danielle Mastrion

AMY Winehouse continues to provide an enduring inspiration to street artists: if a blank wall becomes free in Camden Town, her face often fills it.

Now following artworks in Lidlington Place, Parkway, Castlehaven Road and Miller Street, the soul singer’s winged eyeliner has made a new, striking appearance in Stucley Place.

Brooklyn-born street artist Danielle Mastrion, who is in the UK to paint a mural for Brooklyn Brewery, said she wanted to paint Amy because she was a “massive fan”.

“I’ve always wanted to paint her and this is the perfect place to do it,” she told the New Journal while finishing the mural on Thursday.

Despite Amy’s popularity with Camden’s artists, Ms Mastrion thinks “there will always be room” for murals of icons that are important to a community.

“In Brooklyn people still paint Notorious B.I.G murals and everyone always loves them. I think as long as people don’t lose popularity or love there’s always room for them,” she said,

“But this mural won’t last forever you know.”

Just 24 hours later, she said she saw a man tagging the mural with band names.

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“It was insane. I tried to block him from tagging on the wall and a few people tried to stop him and he just started getting aggressive,” she said.

Nelly Balazs, a guide at Camden Street Art Tours, said she hasn’t been able to resume her tours in Camden after lockdown because of the rise in tagging in London.

“We had 18 months of lockdown so the taggers ran amok,” she said.

“Tagging is never going to go away, though. The artists know it’s part of the game. It’s the public who get upset about it.”

When it comes to unwritten rules, Ms Balazs said, generally, if the work is good and the artist is respected, taggers leave it alone.

But she added if the work is there for a year or more, artists are unlikely expect it to be still there in its original condition.

The wall in Stucley Place had recently been used by Paramount+ to promote its new streaming channel with a painted mural of their own, which some critics said was blurring the lines between street art and profit-seeking marketing.