7375. Brunel Way (346)

Goldie, Jody, Dibz, Posea, Zuke, Soker, Cheo and Fade, Brunel Way, Bristol, August 2025
Goldie, Jody, Dibz, Posea, Zuke, Soker, Cheo and Fade, Brunel Way, Bristol, August 2025

This piece is difficult to describe in its entirety. It is an epic piece to celebrate one year on from the Goldie inspired Ikea wall, and also to honour DJ Randall, and this particular spot has been used by the THK crew for a few years now to pay tribute to the departed musician. The paint jam included work from Goldie, Jody, Dibz, Posea, Zuke, Soker, Cheo and Fade. It is worth noting that this piece hasn’t been touched since it was painted in August.

Goldie and Zuke, Brunel Way, Bristol, August 2025
Goldie and Zuke, Brunel Way, Bristol, August 2025

From the left, the collaboration begins with a piece of graffiti writing by Goldie and some flowers by Zuke. Some bright and rather beautiful work here to get things going.

Jody and Zuke, Brunel Way, Bristol, August 2025
Jody and Zuke, Brunel Way, Bristol, August 2025

Next up is a portrait of DJ Randall by Jody, one of many renditions of the artist that has graced this spot. Once again, the portrait piece is embroidered by some flowers by Zuke. The greyscale piece is punctuated only by a gold tooth and gold ring.

Dibz and Zuke, Brunel Way, Bristol, August 2025
Dibz and Zuke, Brunel Way, Bristol, August 2025

Dibz is up next, with the letters AMBER (I think), and of course, there are some more flowers surrounding the letters, and a trademark Bee by Cheo. The letters are beautifully filled, and the drop shadow has a wonderful pulsating effect.

Posea and Zuke, Brunel Way, Bristol, August 2025
Posea and Zuke, Brunel Way, Bristol, August 2025

The steel case with the Metalheadz logo and record sleeve are by Posea and each of the contributing artists has signed the sleeve, almost as if it were a tangible object.

Soker, Cheo, Fade and Zuke, Brunel Way, Bristol, August 2025
Soker, Cheo, Fade and Zuke, Brunel Way, Bristol, August 2025

Finally, the epic wall is rounded off with writing from Soker, a toucan smoking a cigar and a python by Cheo and the letters THK by Fade, once more festooned with Zuke’s flowers. The whole wall is a bit of a masterpiece, that has been enjoyed by many this year.

7372. Dean Lane skate park (891)

Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, June 2025
Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, June 2025

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.

Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, June 2025
Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, June 2025

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.

7337. Dean Lane skate park (889)

Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, November 2025
Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, November 2025

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, Dean Lane, Bristol, November 2025
Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, November 2025

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.

7310. Cumberland Basin

Dibz, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Dibz, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

This is what a birthday celebration piece to self looks like… by Dibz for Dibz. The calibre of artists that turned out for this paint jam was pretty high, as you might expect, and the quality of the birthday boy’s piece reflects the quality of the others.

Dibz, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Dibz, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

It is easy to get quite blazé about Dibz’ outstanding wildstyle graffiti pieces, because each one is utterly on-point, and it is what we expect, but this perfection betrays the talent, experience and hard work that Dibz puts in to achieve these incredible results. Alongside the outstanding writing, Dibz has added a little gravestone and cloud-covered moon to pick up on the Halloween theme running through the pieces in this paint jam. All so good.

7306. Cumberland Basin

The Art of Sok, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
The Art of Sok, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

Last year I managed to catch up with The Art of Sok several times, and it seems that the artist crossed the border several times to paint in Bristol. This year his visits have been less frequent, but he has definitely left his mark, not least with this stunner for Dibz’ birthday.

The Art of Sok, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
The Art of Sok, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

I wasn’t expecting too many Halloween pieces this year, but as it turned out, there were quite a few. (Note to self – do a Halloween gallery). The Art of Sok has created the perfect pumpkin character painted in his outstanding cartoon style. Everything is superbly balanced and the fills and borders immaculate. This is cartoon character street art at its very best. Bravo!

7301. Cumberland Basin

Jody, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Jody, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

It is obvious that two paint jams have been giving me plenty of material to write about; Dibz’ and Minto’s birthdays, I think both turned 50 this autumn. This Halloween Count Dracula piece by Jody was to celebrate Dibz half- century.

Jody, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Jody, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

As portrait pieces by Jody go, this one isn’t, in my view, his best, not because of the obvious quality, but because it somehow doesn’t quite sit right with me. It happens from time to time and I can’t explain it. Perhaps it is the cape, which could do with more texture and folds, or maybe the red lips… of course, I am being unbelievably picky, it is a great portrait piece by a superb artist.

7293. Cumberland Basin

Soker, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Soker, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

As you might expect, there was a great turnout from the great and good of the established graffiti writing/street community for Dibz’ 50th birthday celebration paint jam, including an appearance from the brilliant Soker.

Soker, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Soker, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

It took me a while to establish that this wonderful piece was indeed by Soker, as it is unsigned, and the letters, of course, spell Dibz. There are one or two small giveaways that it is Soker’s work; The high-quality finish, The black star in the ‘D’; the small accent rectangles at the top left and top right; and the green drips around the piece. I was thrown off the scent slightly by the white accent lines that create a sense of round letters, because that is not something I associate too much with Soker. Classy work.

7290. Cumberland Basin

Andy Council, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Andy Council, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

I haven’t seen too many pieces by Andy Council this year, so this birthday piece for Dibz, which doubled up as a Halloween piece, was very welcome indeed. Andy Council painted this alongside the fine geometric piece by Acer One that I posted yesterday.

Andy Council, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Andy Council, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

Andy Council’s style is to create his (usually) beasts by ‘stitching’ together component parts to make a coherent whole. Here he has created an awesome raven with some lovely colour touches in the red eye and iridescent greens on the feathers. A lovely piece to add to his menagerie.

7288. Cumberland Basin

Acer One, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Acer One, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

I haven’t seen too much of Acer One this year, I guess he is probably busy with his commercial work, so it was so great to see this gorgeous geometric piece alongside Andy Council for Dibz’ 50th birthday celebration paint jam.

Acer One, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Acer One, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

The sophisticated stellar piece features the sun, moon and a star all interwoven with great precision. The background is a wonderful cosmic scene, most fitting for this piece. I feel I haven’t had my quota of Acer One’s work this year, so will be keeping my eyes peeled for more.

7282. Cumberland Basin

Rusk Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Rusk Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

Birthday paint jams are an opportunity for graffiti writers to break away from their customary letters (usually their street name) and play with the letters of the artist being celebrated. In this case, the Birthday boy was Dibz as he celebrated his 50th birthday, and the artist whiting his letters if Rusk.

Rusk Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
Rusk Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

Rusk is a fabulous graffiti writer and takes a lot of care with his work, leaving everything neat and tidy. The colours of the piece tie in with Halloween; purple, orange and green, and the spider webs decorating the edges clear up doubt, if there was any, that October 31 is very much front of mind. This is the first of several pieces from this paint jam.