Dean Lane – Natural adventures

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Logoe and Mamil, Dean Lane, Bristol, December 2025

A recent visit to Bristol by Logoe and Mamil has caused a bit of a stir. The artists are not residents of Bristol, and are not so very much in touch with the wall protocols. Unfortunately, they painted over a tribute wall to Dorns under Brunel Way, and the piece was immediately tagged as being disrespectful. Another of their collaborations in St Werburghs was given the same treatment. It can be a jungle out there, and it is often advisable not to paint over a tribute piece, or anything that you might believe is a tribute.

I am familiar with the blitz visits of Logoe over recent years, but Mamil is new to me, and it looks like Logoe has found a kindred spirit script graffiti writer. This is a proper collaboration with a shared house sty;e in terms of colours and background. Both artists have adopted a script style, but Mamil’s is, in this example, finer than Logoe’s, and is in the form of a bicycle. Clever stuff. More to come from this pair, and their tagged pieces are shown below.

Logoe, Brunel Way, Bristol, December 2025

Mamil, Brunel Way, Bristol, December 2025

Logoe and Mamil, St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2025

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During the second half of last year, I thoroughly enjoyed witnessing the coming together of Asre and Zinso, which felt like a perfect match in terms of writing styles. Asre has had a great year, producing no end of graffiti writing pieces and thrown in a few characters too along the way.

This is a modest piece on the wall of the Dean Lane swimming pool which includes shout-outs to his graffiti friends. The nicely designed letters are filled with four horizontally laid out shades of blue, with some reversing-out of bubbles between layers. Buffing out the wall might have helped with shutting out the noise from around the piece, but it actually is fine as it is. Looking forward to lots more in 2026.

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Continuing with my end-of-year trawl through my archive, I found this piece by Dibz from June. I can’t for the life of me think how I missed posting this one, other than at that time Dibz nd Fade were churning out so many superb pieces, it was difficult to keep up.

The combination piece features the cartoon character Captain Crocodile from Disney’s Robin Hood, a film I don’t think I have ever seen. The letters spelling DIBZ are somewhat eclipsed by the character holding a cushion upon which sits a spray can. A great fun piece in the Deaner.

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Hire and Ceus, Dean Lane, Bristol, February 2025

I’m off to a football match this morning and will shortly be catching a train to London, so today’s posts are likely to be fairly swift. The next few posts are ones from earlier this year that somehow got left behind in my archives. This was a nice collaboration from Hire and Ceus back in February.

Some unusual writing, spelling out Odiah, one of the words Hire likes to use, and his trademark rabbit. All looking rather smooth in the winter sunshine.

Ceus appears to have left these shores now, and I think that this might have been amongst the last ones he painted in Bristol. A fine collaboration.

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The frequency of output from the dynamic duo that is Dibz and Fade has dropped off somewhat this autumn. There may be many reasons for this, but one of them has to be that there aren’t many walls available to them, largely due to the longevity of their previous collaborations blocking the best walls and rendering them unavailable.

Dibz has created this outstanding ‘hell on earth’ piece with his customary wildstyle graffiti writing, which is about as tidy as you can get. He has filled the wall with a fiery scene, and loads of movement surrounding the static letters, which are in much sharper focus than the background. I love the devil’s trident with the halo – all good stuff.

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It is rather nice to be picking up a rather gentle drumbeat of pieces by Mesk. I have always been aware of his graffiti writing, but only really sought out his work since I met him in the spring.

This is a rather nicely presented chrome piece in the Deaner with the letters MESK clearly bordered with a strong black line. There is a bit of interference with the chrome piece below, which is a pity…a little bit of background decoration might have overcome that. That being said, this is a nice tidy piece.

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Foksymoron, Dean Lane, Bristol, November 2025

I really should post more pieces from the fabulous Mr Foksymoron. His cheeky character fox pieces are always fun and uplifting, and this one in Dean Lane is a beauty.

I love the Star Wars reference in this piece ‘The fox is strong with this one’ which in the film is, of course, ‘The force is strong with this one’. The Obi Wan Kenobi cloak is also perfect for this piece. Subtle enough to be missed by anyone unfamiliar with the film franchise. I very much like these interjections by Foksymoron, and might need to delve into my archives to post a few more.

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One of the rewarding aspects of photographing and recording street art in Bristol is watching on as new artists begin their journey and then develop their style and improve their technique. Some never quite make the grade, but others clearly have the determination and desire to progress, and some reach levels they might have never expected. I met Seed a couple of weeks back, and he told me he had only started graffiti writing a few weeks earlier. Since then, I have seen his work appearing all over the place. This is the first post of his work on Natural Adventures, but I very much anticipate it won’t be the last.

What we see here is potentially a diamond in the rough. Seed has opted for large letters – I’m not quite sure the capital ‘Es’ are the easiest letters to start with, but I guess they present a challenge. The colour selection is good, and that yellow certainly attracts attention. The black 3D drop shadow is a little overpowering and needs refining, but the fills are OK, and the dotted decorations certainly improve the piece. Planning a wall is a really important part of graffiti writing, and Seed has left himself a bit short on the right-hand side, a mistake he is unlikely to repeat. Watch out from more from Seed over the coming weeks and months.

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Mr Draws, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2025

At first sight, this wide piece by Mr Draws looks a little confused, but look a little closer and you will see a compelling scene unfolding of four blue whales drifting gently across the wall.

Each of the whales has some red splodges and drips which I guess symbolise blood. They could be a reference to the savage whaling, so dominant in the 1970s when the International Whaling Commission stepped in and massively curtailed the hunting and slaughter, or could reflect other challenges our oceans face due to pollution and climate change. Powerful and evocative stuff from Mr Draws.

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Mr Crawls, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2025

Haha! I love this three character piece by Mr Crawls. A simple, and rather curious design of characters that conveys emotions and humour in equal measure. As you might expect, the threesome are painted onto a chrome background, one of the signatures of Mr Crawls and his painting pal Mote.

The characters have plenty about them, even though they are composed mainly of eyes and shoulders. The middle one has a rather expressive mouth, and the shading in the eyes of the green ones gives the impression that they are looking inwards. I rather like these abstract beings that Mr Crawls has developed, and I think he likes them too.

	Suzette Benjamin on Thursday doors – 8 Janua…
	Dan Antion on Thursday doors – 8 Janua…
	paulh121 on MOT
	scooj on 7388. Brunel Way (347)
	scooj on MOT

	Suzette Benjamin on Thursday doors – 8 Janua…
	Dan Antion on Thursday doors – 8 Janua…
	paulh121 on MOT
	scooj on 7388. Brunel Way (347)
	scooj on MOT

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