4131. St Werburghs tunnel (270)

Mest is an artist whose writing is improving all the time, not only in quality but also in creativity. Sticking to his standard letter shapes, he gets his variety through his fill designs and colours. I have so many more of his pieces that are not yet published, but posting pieces on Natural Adventures is a very competitive marketplace at the moment. I will get round to publishing more in due course.

Mest, St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2021
Mest, St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2021

The colour contrasts between the orange background and cool blue letter fills works wonderfully, a real hot and cold battle going on in front of our eyes. Mest has also been playing a little by picking out some of the brick work with pink lines. A sprinkling of little yellow dots rounds the piece off nicely. A fine piece from Mest which gets me ever closer to publishing a gallery of his work… watch this space over the next month or two.

Late

.

At last, northerlies

draw down heavy Arctic air

and we see our breath

.

by Scooj

Seaside

.

Under moody skies

alongside the grey-green waves

I search for fossils

.

by Scooj

False hopes

.

Newly cut diamonds

fall from a chaotic sky

then dreams melt away

.

by Scooj

False start

.

Overwintering

butterflies emerge from sheds

wishing they had not

.

by Scooj

Northerly

.

From the north she blows

chilly Arctic air marches

winter hangover

.

by Scooj

Chilly

.

The biting chill wind

cuts through to the very bone

the wind-chill factor

.

by Scooj

Sub-zero

.

A microclimate

defined by our garden fence

somehow snow remains

.

by Scooj

Winter chill

.

The mild weather yields

conceding territory

cold winter begins

.

by Scooj

Set the fire

.

Balls of newspaper

and our own home-cut kindling

time for a real fire

.

by Scooj