Kid Krishna, The Carriageworks, Bristol, March 2025
There was a time, when the Carriageworks was being redeveloped, that I thought we’d never see graffiti or street art appear on the arches again. That is true for the two right-hand arches, which have now been replaced with large windows, but the left-hand arches continue to play host to the occasional piece. This is a beauty from Kid Krishna.
Kid Krishna, The Carriageworks, Bristol, March 2025
The artist has a real eye for form and colour and combines these with his letters CRIE, to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. I can almost see the emergence of a masked character in the purple section – is it real, or am I imagining things? Clever and technically brilliant work from Kid Krishna.
Rather later than anticipated – I had to drop my son off at Heathrow Airport this morning – I bring you the last instalment of doors from Assisi which my family I and visited almost exactly a year ago today. I am pressed for time, and will let the doors do the talking.
Two remaining doors where there were once three, Assisi, Umbria, Italy, July 2023Side doors and entrance to the Basilica di San Francesco, Assisi, Umbria, Italy, July 2023An archway spanning a street, Assisi, Umbria, Italy, July 2023Steps leading up to an iron gate and doors, Assisi, Umbria, Italy, July 2023Large door with pillars and portico balcony, Assisi, Umbria, Italy, July 2023Wooden doors in an altered brick/stone doorway, Assisi, Umbria, Italy, July 2023Doors and shrine, Assisi, Umbria, Italy, July 2023
So we say farewell to Assisi… until next time. I have one final selection of doors from last year’s trip to Umbria, but next time I think I will be turning my attention to somewhere closer to home. May I wish you all a fabulous end of week and 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 Thursday Doors post.
Doors 236 – Lincoln City doors (Part VIII) – Gateways of Lincoln
This September, and the months leading up to it, has been an incredibly busy time for me at work, landing four major projects. I hope that things will start to calm down a bit and that I will have a bit more time to allow space for creativity and imagination. I have found it difficult to keep my blog posts going through this period, but have managed to maintain the discipline, which is good for my mental health. Unfortunately the haikus have dropped off, but I am excited to get back into a rhythm with them.
I will be treating myself to a few days in Cornwall on my annual fishing trip, starting tonight and it is the perfect way to ‘come down’ from such high intensity.
This week I pick up with some more Lincoln doors which I have broadly themed into gateways, most of which would have had gates or doors at some point. After this week, I think there might be a fun leftovers post, before moving on to some Italian treats from the summer. Here we go:
Little and large gates, Lincoln, July 2023Exchequer Gate, Lincoln, July 2023Lincoln Guildhall gateway from the north, Lincoln, July 2023Lincoln Guildhall gateway from the south, Lincoln, July 2023Priory Arch gateway, Lincoln, July 2023Stokes High Bridge over the River Witham, Lincoln, July 2023
OK, so a bridge with a Tudor building over a river isn’t technically a gateway, but is is a rather impressive sight and one I wanted to include. The doors below were up the passage way on the right of the building, near the spiral fire escape.
Tudor door, Stokes High Bridge, Lincoln, July 2023Side entrance door, Stokes High Bridge, Lincoln, July 2023
One final push with work this morning before I go on my escape. I hope you have a great end of week and 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 Thursday Doors post.
I believe that these arches at The Carriageworks are on borrowed time, as the developers of the site have plans to build retail outlets as part of the overall redevelopment of the site, so let’s make hay while the sun shines. Two of Bristol’s most recognised street artists, Sled One and 3Dom, have paired up to give these two arches a bit of a makeover.
Sled One, The Carriageworks, Bristol, May 2022
On the left is yet another spellbinding piece from Sled One, featuring a skull-like character in a red hat next to a pond with a rather arrogant-looking duck swimming about. Sled One has created this surreal scene with such extraordinary detail and clarity. For me there is something of a retro feel about the piece, perhaps it is the colours or the overall way the elements in the water and foliage around the pond are presented, but it looks like it could be a poster from the 1950s with a surreal 2020s twist.
3Dom, The Carriageworks, Bristol, May 2022
On the right hand arch 3Dom has painted an incredible dreamy piece where the main character, unlike anything we know or understand, is curled around the shape of the archway space. There is something most endearing about this smiley faced, reptile-humanoid creature, but look a little closer and there is something a little intriguing too. A love arrow runs through the character, although I’m not entirely sure what it signifies. I get a feeling that much of 3Dom’s work is about cherishing our beautiful Earth and a warning about its decline and losses in the natural world, he tells these stories through his ‘otherworldly’ characters almost as if warning us about the perils ahead. Of course they might simply be beautiful images without any hidden meaning, but I doubt it.
A week or so before Haloween, this scary clown appeared in Stokes Croft. Now I am the first to say that I am not a big fan of the scary clown thing that seems to be sweeping the nation at the moment, but I really like this piece.
Dose?, Stokes Croft, Bristol, October 2016
The artist is unknown to me, and I can’t find out anything about him anywhere. He signs himself ‘Dose’ or ‘Dase’ and was responsible for this fabulous ghost cat a few months ago, in exactly the same spot.
Dose?, Stokes Croft, Bristol, October 2016
His works are so clean and beautifully executed…really fine work, but they also have some menace, some edge, which for me is one of the things I love about street art. I wish I could find out something about him (I know it is a he, because I have seen images of him painting the cat on the internet, but the photographer/blogger also didn’t know who he is).
Dose?, Stokes Croft, Bristol, October 2016
If anyone reading this can put me out of my misery and knows who the artist is, please leave a comment at the end of this post. Scary clowns…they really are scary.
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