Sworm, St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2024

6655. St Werburghs tunnel (470)

Sworm, St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2024
Sworm, St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2024

Today is my first day back at work after a week away, and I am bracing myself for a whirlwind of emails, and will be hearing about How I will be helping another department, which is causing me huge anxiety, as I am already working at full capacity. Inevitably, this and other future posts will be shortened until I am in a new rhythm.

I was lucky enough to bump into Sworm and also meet Omie for the first time, who was working alongside Sworm, as they painted their Christmas collaboration.

Sworm, St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2024
Sworm, St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2024

This piece displays Sworm’s talents really well, and although the colour scheme is fairly simple, the overall writing is complex and beautifully worked. Because I saw this piece as a work in progress, I was struck by how similar the process was to how Elvs paints his pieces. Basically, Swarm started with the white fill, and then added the outline and detail as an overlay. The result is stunning. Unfortunately, when I returned to take these pictures, Omie’s letters has been overpainted, which was a real pity.

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I am Stephen. I live in Bristol, UK. I decided to shorten my profile...to this: Wildlife, haiku, travel, streetart, psychogeography and my family. Not necessarily in that order.

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