They’re at it again. Although it took Dibz and Fade a little time to warm uop this year, once they got going they have been fairly relentless all summer long. This is just a nice study in wildstyle graffiti writing on one of their favourite walls.
Fade and Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, August 2026
The pair have gone for a pink theme, although when I first saw the collaboration, my first thought was Liquorice Allsorts and I can’t unthink it. This is a great example of technical graffiti writing executed to the highest standard. Exactly as I’d expect from these two.
I like to publish as many pieces by Werm as I can, because it has been an amazing privilege to be able to chart his journey since his arrival on the Bristol street art scene. Over the years, he has navigated his way through various styles, learned a lot and always looked to adapt and improve, to the point now where we see a mature and confident graffiti writer who seems to be enjoying his craft.
Werm, Dean Lane, Bristol, August 2026
This is an amazing piece, bursting with colour and energy. The letters themselves are incredibly clean and tight, close to perfection, but I think the thing thart brings the whole alive is the contrasting spotty background, introducing a whole different colour regime and softer edges counteracting the sharpness in his letters. A great piece of graffiti writing from Werm.
As is pretty much always the case, I am finding it difficult to keep up with the volume of graffiti and street art appearing on the streets of Bristol every day, and although I am posting this great piece by Awkward earlier this month, there are two or three that I still have in my archives from earlier in the summer, and I simply have no idea when to post them.
Awkward, Dean Lane, Bristol, August 2026
This is a nicely presented piece by Awkward, fesaturing a mildly creepy character with large eyes and skull-like features. The character is floating on a purple bubble background and includes a signature speech bubble with the word AWK WARD stacked inside. I’ll have to find time and space to post his other pieces.
This curved wall on the back side of a ramp in Dean Lane skate park is one of my favourite walls in Bristol. I even have a gallery of some of the pieces painted on this wall going back to April 2017, which is worth a look, just to see how a wall changes over time. The latest occupiers of the wall are Roma and Luxe (Bbygwya).
Roma and Luxe, Dean Lane, Bristol, August 2026
These two graffiti ladies have been super-busy this summer and I haver been finding their writings cropping up all over the place. In this collaboration they have gone for a shared colour scheme and similar designs, with a light brown occupying the middle space between them and darker brown at the top and bottom. This is a nice way to collaborate. The green bubble background works well but might have expanded outweards and upwards a little further in my view. Nice work.
This is a fine combination collaboration from Fade and Dibz, featuring the cartoon character Marvin the Martian. The character is sandwiched between two fabulous pieces of wildstyle graffiti writing from the pair. It is surprising how many times I have seen this character used in a graffiti piece… note to self, do a Marvin the Martian special when I have time.
Fade and Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, July 2026
Unusually, Fade is to the left, and Dibz to the right. Looking at the two writing styles together, you can see that Fade’s work is much ‘flatter’ and 2 dimensional, whereas Dibz has gone for more depth with great use of a drop shadow around his letters. I suspect that the character was a joint effort, which is often the case with these two. Great work.
Dibz, Fade and Rusk, Dean Lane, Bristol, July 2026
The Wacky Races cartoon series is deeply embedded in some of my happiest memories. As children, my two best friends and I would watch it every week together, adopting our favourite characters – being the youngest, I got third choice and was Professor Patent Pending, which I was actually quite happy with. Our own fortunes were dictated by those of our chosen characters, and winning the race was joyful and bestowed bragging rights until the next episode.
Dibz, Fade and Rusk, Dean Lane, Bristol, July 2026
This is a wonderful combination of writing from Fade and Dibz and the character piece by Rusk. The wildstyle writing is top class, with each piece hanging perfectly in the blue sky. The writing is accompanied by the words “Dibz Dastardly & Fadely”, a direct reference to the characters in Rusk’s character piece.
Rusk, Dean Lane, Bristol, July 2026
Rusk has done a great job with Dastardly and Mutley in their flying machine, and has conflated Wacky Races with Stop the Pigeon, which was a spin-off series from Wacky Races. I love this collaboration, a real trip down memory lane – probably 55 years or more ago. Thank you.
You might be fooled into thinking that this piece is by an artist writing ESAR, but the artist is playing with his letters and with us, as it is, of course, by Asre. Many graffiti writers like to do this, a little bit of mischief and deception is part and parcel of the scene, probably derived from an inherent legacy desire not to be identified.
Asre, Dean Lane, Bristol, July 2026
The nicely designed letters set on a yellow bubble cloud and lifted with a red drop shadow, have a solid fill without any decoration or variation. The blue is simply left with a very flat and clean appearance. This is a great example of a piece of writing that is straightforward and authentic, not in need of over design or pretension. WYSIWYG.
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.
Sindo, Dean Lane, Bristol, June 2026
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.
I have recently been having a virtual conversation with Taboo, and it is great to have a bit more of a connection with the artist. Over the last couple of months, I have found a stack of old pieces by Taboo, and he has been painting quite regularly, so I have a lot of catching up to do with his work.
Taboo, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2026
This is a perfect example of Taboo’s anti-style graffiti writing, and this might be a good time to offer a definition of what anti-style means:
A rebellious sub-genre that rejects traditional graffiti rules like legible letterforms, flow, and colour theory.
The pink letters here spell out TABOO, and, consistent with a lot of his writing, his letters have a midline running through them giving them a bit of a 3D lift. A nice piece that might be inaccessible to some, but is a fine work in my eyes.
This outstanding scene was painted by Cheo as part of a recent first anniversary tribute paint jam to the departed Bristol graffiti writer Tickz (Dave Tanner). And what a magnificent piece to paint in his honour.
Cheo, Dean Lane, Bristol, May 2026
Cheo tells the most incredible stories in his outstanding cartoon pieces, and here I think we have a representation of Tickz as a spray can leaning up against a tree stump. Some lilies, lilies symbolize the restored innocence of the soul and the resurrection of the dead, are poking out on the far side of the tree root. A beautifully painted and poignant piece.
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