There is not too much to say about this piece by Mesk. Big bold chrome letters pretty much says it all. The style of the lettering, spelling MESK, is chunky, with little space between the letters.
This is an impact piece, which chrome pieces tend to be. No fuss, no precious fill patterns and nothing else to distract the eye. Solid.
I was lucky enough to meet Michal a week or so after photographing this piece while he was painting in Peel Street Green. I stopped to have quite a long chat with him and he is a really interesting artist who works as a chef in Bristol. He was telling me all about the Slovakian (where he is from) street art scene, in particular about Dekor, who used to paint with Zase in Bristol, who is revered as a ‘god’ of street art back in Slovakia.
His letters spell out Michal, he is known as Miso and has appeared here before in some collaboration pieces with Zase. He paints his letters freestyle, in other words from his head and not a pre-drafted design. This is a beautifully worked chrome piece with some accent spots adding just the right amount of detail. The blue splat background does just enough to make it stand out from the graffitied wall. Nice work, watch out for more soon.
j9449j or All 4 Nothing if you prefer is a very different kind of writer. His nature-based anstract writing is nigh on impossible to read, but his decorative style is easy on the eye, and it doesn’t really matter that the letters are so disguised.
This piece has an interesting colour selection choice which on paper probably would look a bit odd, but the blue, white, green and chrome actually looks good – it is unusual to see chrome incorporated into a piece in this way. This is just one of several recent pieces from the artist, who seems to be on a bit of a roll.
Every once in a while I come across a piece of writing from a writer I don’t know, and just have to offer a nod of appreciation, saying to myself – ‘that is pretty good you know’. This piece by Sindo, is one of those.
Many visitors to Bristol don’t make it into the hollowed pages of Natural Adventures (I jest), but Sindo – who hails from Northern Italy – easily made the cut with this stunning chrome piece. Set on a purple cloud, the nicely presented letters with an interesting black/grey 3D drop shadow, is augmented with a scattering of blue marks which give additional life to the piece. Benvenuto a Bristol.
Street artists and graffiti writers tend to go through productive phases and less productive ones, often dictated not by inspiration or desire, but by life experience and circumstance. Corupt is having a particularly fruitful period and turning out some outstanding pieces.
This is a lovely chrome STICK piece in the tunnel which was painted alongside RBN One, a graffiti writer whom Corupt often paints alongside. The chrome letters, in Corupt’s characteristic font are filled with a combination of black spots and bars, all stock-in-trade elements used in graffiti writing. Nice work in the tunnel.
It would seem that every time I feature a piece by Zed in the Clouds, I find myself repeating that he is somewhat underrepresented on the pages of Natural Adventures.
This one was perhaps just too ‘noisy’ I had to include it. The chrome combination piece with a character on the left, and the letters ZED, contrast perfectly with the orange and red ‘flame’ background, which looking at it might have been from a former occupant of this wall. I think that the Zed in the Clouds piece is bounded by the blue outline, and includes the hand on the right.
When Logoe comes to town, you can be sure that you will find more than one piece of graffiti writing from him, often three or four and sometimes more. It is as if his idea of a weekend break in Bristol is to hit as many walls as possible.
This is a lovely piece on the hoarding at Greenbank with chrome letters and a very nice colour palette to boot. The script letters are set on a lilac background and decorated with dozens of little pink ovals. A classic piece of Logoe writing.
Nips has been super-busy recently, which is a good thing, because I love her work. Normally I wax lyrical about her fills, but in this instance it is a straightforward chrome fill, with some minimal black accent lines and spots.
What makes this piece for me is the wall preparation of a dark blue background, and the vibrant lime green/yellow outline, which combine to help this piece stand out and shout. Imagine if there had been no background or strong border, the writing would be in danger of being absorbed by the wall altogether. A wonderful bold piece from Nips.
I knew from my Instagram feed that Biers has changes his letters recently from WD40 to RABIES, and this is the first piece that I have seen in his new persona. I have to say that I really like his choice and the enthusiasm that has come with it. Furthermore, I think it gives him more scope than his former WD40 option.
The letters in this wonderful chrome piece are a little unruly, in a good way. I also note that the second half of his letters BIES, isn’t too far away from BIERS, which are the letters I first associate with him. The sparse decoration in the letters is just the right amount, and the contrast with the red background separated only by the thinnest of yellow lines. This might signal the start of a refreshed Biers – I hope so.
I am enjoying observing the Avem808’s work, as an artist who only came on to my radar midway through last year. I am not sure whether he only then moved to Bristol, or whether I had simply missed his work before, which I find unlikely but not impossible. The point is that he is here now, and I tend to post every new piece of his that I find.
This is a nicely crafted chrome piece on a fiery background. Avem808 has a distinctive style that is intricate and layered, with deep drop shadows falling upon other letters, for example the A and M sitting above the E, if that makes any sense at all. The colour combination works well and the piece stands out on this wall. Having said all that, it didn’t last very long, which is a pity.
