7981. Dean Lane skate park (948)

An unusual collaboration recently appeared on the curved wall in Dean Lane. While I am familiar with one of the artists, EFFE, I have not come across Neens before. UPDATE – Neens is in fact Nina Raines (of course it is, I am such an idiot sometimes) and Nina tells me that the Banana is by an artist called Ailish. I have a feeling that these pieces might have been part of a Bristol Mural Collective paint jam, because there were a few other pieces nearby by artists I couldn’t recognise. Neens has painted an orange – not something I have seen as main subject of street art before, and Ailish the banana. It feels like a piece by an artist more at home in the studio, but is a great idea and lots of fun.

The piece on the right by Effe is one that has all the hallmarks of a tattoo artist – clean clear design, with each element defined and separate. The eagle figure is nicely presented on the black background and the artist’s letters EFFE appear in the orange shapes at the bottom of the feathers. A lovely illustration.