I had meant to post this epic piece by Rowdy some time ago, and somehow it slipped through the net. I think I had wanted to get some better photographs, but because of its size it is difficult to do it justice.
The Huge Bristol crocodile was painted back in August last year and is a bit of a signature character for Rowdy. Indeed, the crocodile is pretty well known throughout Bristol, having appeared in so many different spots over the years. A characterful piece from a characterful artist.
This is a really wonderful, piece by Benjimagnetic tucked away behind the hedge alongside the swimming pool wall. He seems to have had a recent burst of energy this winter and painted a few pieces in quick succession.
The colours of the letters GRO (blue, Green and black) work perfectly against the hint of a red background. There are plenty of fine rectangular details in pink and green within the letters themselves, filling the space very nicely. Unusually for a Benjimagnetic piece, the letters are really easy to read, and rather more solid than many of his pieces. Nice work.
It is nice to see painting partnerships form between artists, and one of them that has been flourishing over the last year or two is that between Sait Bare and Hire. Their classy collaborations tend to be of the nature where there is little read-across between them, but that they are painted side by side.
Usually we see the letters SAIT when Sait Bare paints his graffiti writing, but in this instance he has spelled out BARE. The winning combination of pink and light blue are used to great effect in this dazzling piece, and the transition line between the colours is filled with creamy froth, beautifully done. Some yellow background splashes surround the piece, but I am not sure they quite fit the style and don’t really add anything… in my view the letters are enough. A nicely presented piece from Sait Bare.
This is a rather unusual collaboration, and I can’t quite make up my mind whether it is a collaboration or two independent pieces that are sitting adjacent to each other I’ve not seen Benjimagnetic and Zake paint together before. My guess is that they both turned up at the same spot on the same day, and decided to paint alongside one another, which makes sense on this wall, because both artists tend to occupy squarish spaces, and this wall is a long rectangle.
To the left, Benjomagnetic has painted one of his customary GRO pieces in his distinctive cryptic style. The colours are a bit compromised because the wall was in shade with a bright sky behind. The shapes and colours that make up the whole are once again perfect.
The character by Zake is rather more elaborate than many of his pieces, and with more than a hint of Chinese dragon about it. There is a rather unsettling third eye in the forehead, and wispy smoke ‘bleeding’ from the main pair of eyes. Definitely curious and slightly odd, but very nicely painted. The long forked tongue rounds off things nicely. An unusual collaborative wall.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Natural adventures 