I think that Zeks might have some time on his hands, maybe he is ‘between jobs’ or simply made a decision to paint more this summer, but is is noticeable that he has painted quite a few pieces in the city recently.
This is a lovely piece of non-uniform writing on the roundabout. Full of beautiful soft colours and arrow patterns. Uniquely Zeksy in its design, one of the best pieces of writing I have seen from the artist to date.
A really quick couple of posts uploaded last night on a train with intermittent WiFi, because today, I am going to be at the launch of a National Nature Reserve just outside Dorchester, and will be up too early to draft any posts.
This is a great piece of graffiti writing from a visiting artist, Ram One, who I think might have been painting alongside Neddy Ned Ned, from memory. The letters RAM are reversed in this piece and the red works so well with the black background and green plasma cloud. nice stuff.
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Boarded the slow train
is there a fast one I muse
villages pass by
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by Scooj
Haha, this piece by Tera is a stonker. Part of a Uzi Crew (Tera, Kid Crayon and SPZero76) paint jam with the theme of the cartoon comic 2000 AD. I was never in to the comic, which I regret, so I am not too sure who the blue lady and robot dog are, and my Google search hasn’t turned up anything.
This is a superb piece of dystopian future artwork, where Tera has free licence to do what he does best, and that is creating characters and worlds without boundaries. For an artist who ad only been ppainting walls for about 18 months, he is rather good at it. With each piece he is bringing more definition and sharper focus. I love the crazy detail in the piece – the boot, the orange hair, the different coloured eyes of the dog, the desetr background… it is all there to enjoy.
If you look hard enough around the city of Bristol, you will find the words Nice One on buildings, on motorway underpasses and around unexpected corners. The artist gets himself pretty much everywhere. His letters are often accompanied by a character of landscape, but here in Purdown it is just Nice One’s letters.
This is a clever piece Which is painted on walls that protrude from the perimeter to different amounts and can only be accurate when viewed fromdirectly in front. If viewed from the side, you can see that the writing is at two depths. Nice One woulkd have had to compensate for this, making the further away letters larger. A skilled study in perspective and depth from Nice One.
I was lucky enough to meet Michal a week or so after photographing this piece while he was painting in Peel Street Green. I stopped to have quite a long chat with him and he is a really interesting artist who works as a chef in Bristol. He was telling me all about the Slovakian (where he is from) street art scene, in particular about Dekor, who used to paint with Zase in Bristol, who is revered as a ‘god’ of street art back in Slovakia.
His letters spell out Michal, he is known as Miso and has appeared here before in some collaboration pieces with Zase. He paints his letters freestyle, in other words from his head and not a pre-drafted design. This is a beautifully worked chrome piece with some accent spots adding just the right amount of detail. The blue splat background does just enough to make it stand out from the graffitied wall. Nice work, watch out for more soon.
I unearthed this piece recently while digging about in my archives. It is a place-appropriate combination piece that is very much at home in the DIY skatepark underneath the M32.
Conrico has written his name with thinly filled green letters, through which a skater is powering. There is some great movement in the piece indicated by the skater’s posture and the little wisps around his feet and the skateboard. This is a rather unusual and wonderfully observed piece from Conrico.
It can be difficult sometimes to identify unsigned pieces, and it can take a bit of luck swiping through Instagram profiles to reveal the artist. So it was with this piece. I was looking up Mr Sleven for a recently posted poster piece, and spotted this in his feed. Pennies dropped and I am freed to post it now.
Perhaps the reason I didn’t think of Mr Sleven immediately when I spotted the piece, is that he has been inactive for quite a while. The message is clear, ‘Love Wins’, although the skull with an arrow through it might imply a broken heart, so a little confusing. A heart patterned background is being obscured by a blue dripping sheet of colour. Lots to like about this striking piece.
What a lovely piece by Lupa in Montpelier Park. This little oasis in Montpelier has a rather neglected basketball court, a nicely revamped children’s play park, some greenery and this wall. A compact community space surrounded by buildings. The wall, although not a legal graffiti wall is tolerated, and I’m sure rather enjoyed by locals who use the park.
Lupa is a straightforward ‘what you see is what you get’ (WYSIWYG) artist. No frills or pretension just some nicely presented letters and colours. I love her work. The choice of bold colours in this piece works very well, and it stands out, set on the blue bubble background. There is some joy in this piece.
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Enforced interview
37 years assessed
in 45 mins
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by Scooj
Natural adventures 