Truly beautiful
music to close your eyes to;
map of Canada.
by Scooj
Ana Moura cover version.
759. Upfest 2016 (116)
Pooka, from Brighton is a relatively new entrant to the street art scene and has been spraying his monochrome portraits only since 2015. This wonderful freehand piece is, I think, a portrait of Nina Simone.
Really striking and a great debut piece for Upfest.
TMay Rex
Stubborn, obstinate,
uncompromising, severe,
arrogant old fool.
by Scooj
758. Armada Place (10)
Well this is a bright wall from Laic217 and Hire. Regular readers will be familiar with the work of Laic217, as I tend to feature a piece by him almost every week, however this is the first work by Hire that I have posted.
I think that this is another of those painting together walls rather than a collaboration per se. There is an element of sequence between the two pieces, but the main link is the background wash selected, and the skeleton spraying on the Hire piece.
No major surprises from Laic217, but consistent with his progress over the last year, the quality of his pieces improves with each work.
I know very little about Hire, except that I am certain I have pictures of other work he has done in my archive. I will try and dig some out if I can. This is a lovely wildstyle piece, with some similarities to the style used by Dibz. A great combination.
Sorry to say that I returned a few days later and the whole thing has been obliterated with this:
757. Stokes Croft, the Carriageworks (24)
You can always rely on ObjectØØØ to be very present when there is some political action going on. At the start of March he and DNT took over several of the arches at the Carriageworks and posted a huge and rather crude protest banner piece for a march in London, protesting against cuts in the National Health Service (NHS).
While technically not as strong as the Paintsmiths piece, the image still has impact. Power to the people!
Cryptic
Imagination
playing tricks; I’ll not be found.
I am a twig, me.
by Scooj
756. Cowmead Walk (1)
This is a fabulous collaborative wall by Deamze (on the left) and Sepr (on the right). I found the wall quite by chance on my wanderings and it is always so rewarding when you come across something as impressive as this. There is also a moment of anguish and doubt that questions your knowledge of the street/graffiti art spots in your patch.
I don’t quite know why I haven’t posted it before. Probably because I have a backlog the size of a small planet and this one just got stuck there for a while.
On the December day that I took these pictures, there was a gentleman with several little dogs that kept running backwards and forwards in front of me. I hope they don’t distract too much. The Deamze wildstyle piece is of the high standard turned out by the artist, and the pink colour selection stands out really well against the green background.
The Sepr end of the piece is an entertaining scene, which looks to be of mice cleaning the component parts of a head. This is a theme I have seen before from Sepr, and he has mastered the stretching out and dissection of the head really well. The shadows add a perspective to the whole piece too.
Although the two halves of the piece do not tell the same story, they are coordinated and complement each other well. Great work from two of Bristol’s finest.
755. Dean Lane skate park (45)
How on earth I stumbled on identifying this piece I genuinely can’t remember, but I am pleased to have done so as it has been in my archive for some while. It is a really nice piece of writing by Cokestd, an artist from Budapest in Hungary which he created in November 2016 while on a trip to the UK.
I do like it when visitors come and leave their mark in our city, especially when it is with a piece such as this – I like to think of Bristol as a welcoming place where we embrace our overseas friends with open arms. The piece itself is a beauty, nicely proportioned with great lines and colours.
754. Albert Park (1)
Although I took this picture in July of last year, the piece is somewhat older than that and is still there today unblemished and untagged. Surely a mark of respect to the artist Soker who produced it.
I have posted quite a few of his works here, but many are lost fairly soon after their creation. This one has stood the test of time, and because of this, I am used to seeing it when driving along Ashley Road in St Pauls. It has become a bit of a landmark. Great colours.
As I post this, I am aware that about a week ago, this wall has been repainted…I think with another Soker piece.
Allotment
.
Here I sit calmly
behind vines and artichokes
shielded from the world
.
by Scooj
Natural adventures 