Another wonderful stencil piece from John D’oh’s outdoor gallery underneath the M32. There is no annotation, just an image of a woman speaking into a megaphone, from which flowers are cascading.
The piece tells a story which I guess is open to interpretation. I think it speaks of protest and peace, a little bit like Banksy’s famous ‘flower thrower’. The piece is beautifully presented, simple and thought-provoking. Good to see.
This spring has seen a surge of pieces by Kid Crayon, which from my perspective is always very welcome indeed. This X-Men piece was painted as part of a collaborative wall with SPZero76 and Tera.
This combination piece has a slightly different look from the curvy writing we are used to seeing from Kid Crayon who has adapted his style a little to fit with an X-Men appearance, which he has wholly bought into, so much so that he has dropped his signature floating crayon. The character is Cyclops, with his destructive laser eyes. Fun stuff.
Doors 351 – Doors of Shrewsbury (part II) – April 2025
This week I continue the series of doors from a trip I made to Shrewsbury last April. During the briefest of stays (one night) I managed to snap dozens of doors, which perhaps tells you a little about the town itself and the variety of doors associated with different architectural periods.
This week’s selection are mostly town house doors, I hope you enjoy them:
That’s about it this week, more from Shrewsbury next time. May I wish you a happy weekend.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s weekly Thursday Doors post and his Sunday recap.
Over the winter, Dibz has been reasonably quiet, but it is noticeable that the frequency of his newly painted pieces is beginning to pick up a little. Here he has teamed up with Rusk to create this fine combination collaboration
The collaboration is one of those where the colour palette is what joins them, with Dibz providing the writing and Rusk the character. This was an early birthday piece for Soker, so the letters spell SOKER. The colours blue and gold (yellow) work well together, and as ever, Dibz work is immaculate.
Rusk has plumped for a character piece rather than letters, but he is equally at home with either. The classic character with baseball cap and spraycan is holding a rather growly dog on a tight leish. The words say ‘every dog has its day’ – perhaps an oblique reference to Soker’s birthday. Altogether a nice piece from the pair.
The turnover at Sparke Evans Park had been quite slow over the winter months, as pretty much the whole wall had been adopted as a tribute wall for Paroe and to a lesser extent Dorns. Over time new pieces emerge, but mostly as single or doubles at most out of respect for the tributes.
With the emergence of spring, and a limited number of walls available to paint, tribute walls are a luxury that have their time but yield eventually to new art. RBN One painted this awesome piece at the far right-hand end of the wall at Sparke Evans Park. His beautiful grey letters, lifted with a great 3D drop shadow, are filled with a red mid-line and grey and white reversed out spots. The dramatic yellow background with floating blocks is a perfect host for the piece. Lovely graffiti writing.
A gallery of wonderful graffiti writing from Bristol artist Omie.
Instagram: @omie_wan_kenobi
All photographs by Scooj
When you have reached the heady heights of being at the top of your game, in the way that 3Dom is, it must be quite difficult to find new and exciting ideas to keep things fresh. With his new series of ‘street elves’ 3Dom has managed just that and given himself a whole new project to enjoy alongside all of his other outstanding work.
This piece isn’t signed, but I have spotted another similar piece which is, so I am pretty certain it is by 3Dom. The ‘elf’ is built up with several different colourful components or blocks that come together to create a whole portrait extended up the column. Attractive and nicely symmetrical. Watch this space for more.
A week or two back there was an EAT/DoOrDie paint jam on Stapleton Road, alongside the M32 motorway, with an X-Men theme. This piece, by SPZero76 is one of the three painted that day.SPZero76 has a special place in Natural Adventures because he was one of the first regular artists that I photographed and wrote about ten years ago. Although he used to paint more often then, his pieces are always outstanding.
The raccoons, creatures that appear in most of SPZero76’s cartoon-style work, are playing out the parts of Wolverine with its claw hand and Cyclops, who is wearing 3D specs instead of his special visor – a nice twist. An incredible scene unfolds in such illustrative detail. This is a truly fabulous piece of cartoon character street art.
Mr Klue has returned and taken up one of his favourite spots at the entrance to St Werburghs tunnel. To me, this one looks a little different from many of his recent pieces. The letters KLUE look much more chunky and slightly compressed.
The familiar scrolls are larger than usual and feature strongly in this piece of abstract writing. Towards the top of the piece it looks like there are vapours rising skywards. Some tiny bursts of orange hint at something going on in the piece, almost as if it is about to burst into flames. Nice work from Mr Klue, king of the tunnel.
One of the great pleasures of doing what I do is enjoying the vast spectrum of different styles and approaches to street/graffiti art that it is possible to see in Bristol. Billy is the creator of wonderful bright child-like illustrations that are so welcoming and upbeat.
In this political commentary piece, a dog is holding a peace symbol in its paws and a flower in its mouth, while a war scene unfolds in the background. A very sad reflection of the state of the world at the moment. The words ‘old dog, new tricks’ suggests to me that you can’t teach an old dog (Trump/USA/Israel/Iran) new tricks (peace, negotiation, compromise).
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