7464. Lucky Lane (18)

Umbral and Dai Luk, Lucky Lane, Bristol, September 2025
Umbral and Dai Luk, Lucky Lane, Bristol, September 2025

With the turnover of pieces being rather slow this year, I have a quick opportunity to rifle through my archive, and this is a delightful piece by Umbral and Dai Luk painted at a Bristol Mural Collective paint jam in Lucky Lane last September.

Umbral and Dai Luk, Lucky Lane, Bristol, September 2025
Umbral and Dai Luk, Lucky Lane, Bristol, September 2025

The slightly fierce looking stylised calico cat is notable for its long curly tail. The piece is set on a blue background with a blue pattern running behind and in front of the cat. This is what I would term a true collaboration, where both artists have combined their skills to create the single piece. The calico cat is spinning its luck, but isn’t what I’d call a calico cat – but I am splitting hairs. Great shutter collaboration.

7229. Dean Lane skate park (874)

Dai Luk, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2025
Dai Luk, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2025

Although this piece by Dai Luk has been dogged by some silly kid, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to post it here. There is a serenity and lightness of touch in this illustrative character piece that is quite out of the ordinary.

Dai Luk, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2025
Dai Luk, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2025

This, I think, is the first piece I have seen by Dai Luk, who is a tattooist, like so many other street artists these days. A cross-legged figure sits in a meditative pose behind a large leaf, that might be symbolic of the body life, or at least that is what it says to me. I love the peace of the work and the soft colours. A fine mindful character piece.