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London in the heat
utterly overwhelming
the melting tarmac
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by Scooj
Month: July 2025
7028. Sparke Evans Park (135)
What is a little peculiar is that if I look back through my archives I would probably find half a dozen or so pieces by Totosoapcity, but it is only recently, once I found out the artist’s name, that I have actually started to post his distinctive writing.
There is a symmetry to Totosoapcity’s writing, and I am never too sure what the letters spell, but I think it is ARSA. There are some good blues, pinks and purples in the piece with a deep 3D drop shadow vanishing in the centre, below the wall. There are a few decorative circles filling and breaking up the white space around the background. A nice piece. I will have to trawl through my archives and dig out some old ones.
7027. Dean Lane skate park (846)
I was rather lucky to be in the right place at the right time as Two Face was drafting up this piece on the wall. I haven’t come across the artist before, and he tells me that he has only recently moved to Bristol, so I will be on the lookout for his work, for sure.
The combination piece is really rather good, incorporating a hand and fired gun on the left and some rather nicely presented writing on the right, with very fine fill work indeed. Lots of textures, techniques and perspectives in this debut (to Natural Adventures) piece. Bravo!
7026. M32 Spot (203)
Unfortunately, I don’t get to post every piece by every artist, and even the artists I am more partial to don’t get fully represented here. There is so much artwork out there that only a fraction ever makes it onto these pages. Although I have posted a lot of Desi pieces, the same cannot be said for her partner, Mr Two Gram. Here they combine well on one of my favourite walls.
On the left Desi has painted a combination piece with her VEIL letters and a Chinese lucky waving cat (why are these such a thing? I never saw them when I was a kid). The piece is really nicely finished, and such a marked improvement on her early works, there is so much more sophistication and technique in her work these days.
Mr Two Gram tends to paint pieces that are reasonably consistent from one to the next, perhaps with a colour change or letter change from time to time. He likes to stick with his 2GRAM lettering (or TWOGRAM) often in Chrome, but not always. I would class Mr Two Gram as a graffiti writer’s graffiti writer, if that makes sense – one for the purists. This is a cool collaboration.
7025. L Dub (69)
A graffiti artist who writes, and has been writing for some time in Bristol, is Vesar, and it is something of a mystery that in ten years of blogging about Bristol street art on Natural Adventures, this is the first time I have posted a piece by him. Shame on me. I have no explanation.
I would say that I have noticed a significant uptick in the quality of his work lately, and that might account for this post and I hope some more to come. Vesar has selected the winning combination of pink and blue tones, which is always going to get noticed by me at least. The writing is neat and tidy with three horizontal blue strips interfaced with bubbles. A yellow border separates the letters from the pink cloudy background, which itself has a darker pink border. Very nice work, and welcome to Natural Adventures.
Small magpie
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Delicate shimmer
betrays any concealment
stay still, stay alive
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by Scooj
Witness
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Calm court surroundings
much slower than on TV
my contribution
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by Scooj
7024. M32 Cycle path (291)
Conrico always brings something slightly different to the party. His brush-stroke style contrasts with much of the ‘solid fill’ or ‘blended’ style that most street artists work with.
In this interesting piece, which appears to be telling a story, a woman, smoking, is holding a burning piece of paper. At the base of the piece, a newspaper headline read “Bristol City Plagued by Grad…”. This must be a story that I missed, but it looks like Conrico has tried to capture it. I am none the wiser, but it is a great piece of commentary art.
7023. M32 Spot (202)
It was easy to spot that this bright and colourful piece on a support column under the M32 was by Lis. Less easy was to interpret what is going on here so I turned to Instagram to see how the artist described the piece in her own words. The answer “Bright and tempting tree trunk portal” painted during a Bristol Mural Collective paint jam.
The woodland theme is something that Lis clearly enjoys, along with nature too, and she has painted a couple of hallmark toadstools in the tree trunk. There is a lot of detail in the piece, and I love the depth and perspective on the signpost arrow. some woodland flowers finish the piece off beautifully. It is always a genuine pleasure to hunt down or stumble across artworks by Lis.
Thursday doors – 10 July 2025 – Doors of Godalming
Doors 315 – Doors of Godalming, Surrey, March 2025
It sounds like an interesting place, Godalming, but I had never visited until earlier this year, and as it turns out, it is a lovely, small, Surrey town. I was there with work for a partnership workshop I was leading, preparing for a celebration event for England’s newest National Nature Reserve, called Wealden Heaths. Sadly I never got to go to the celebration event itself, but I am told it was a perfect day, and we generated plenty of local and national coverage. Job done.
The town is very much centred around a single main street, called High Street, which is home to a wonderful array of timber-framed shops and houses in a Surrey style, quite different to those I have encountered in other parts of the country. This first set of doors are found on the route from the station to the High Street. I hope you enjoy this first of three or four collections from Godalming.
More to come from this rather pretty town next time, and perhaps for the next couple of times after that. Meanwhile, I am basking in the brilliant and unusually wonderful summer sunshine we are having in Bristol, with little sign of rain for more than a week.
That’s it for another week. I prepared this post in advance, and I am publishing it very early (UK time) on Thursday, because when I did this by mistake a few weeks ago, I had far more views than I would normally expect. I am testing the idea once again, but this time deliberately, to see if that was an anomaly or a real effect.
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 Thursday Doors post.
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