7013. M32 roundabout J3 (694)

Dobz, M32 roundabout, Bristol, June 2025
Dobz, M32 roundabout, Bristol, June 2025

Some more mushroom art from Dobz, this time on the M32 roundabout. I don’t think that Dobz is local to Bristol, but managed to paint a few walls on a visit in June. There is some chance for confusion when it comes to mushroom street art, because Lis and Neoliberalizard both feature mushrooms heavily in their artwork.

Dobz, M32 roundabout, Bristol, June 2025
Dobz, M32 roundabout, Bristol, June 2025

These mushroom-coloured mushrooms, set on a pink background, are really nicely filled, with blended colours from dark to light providing depth and structure.  The gills are really difficult to paint accurately due to their slim and numerous form, so Dobz has provided an approximation to them to ensure we know that this is a toadstool/mushroom. Keep looking out for that fungi.

6596. St Werburghs tunnel (465)

Lis (Le Imposter Design), St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2024
Lis (Le Imposter Design), St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2024

I am always encouraged when I see studio artists exercising their subversive side by painting illegal walls, with their different take on street art, and a recent emerging talent is Lis AKA Le Imposter Design. Her work seems to feature nature a fair bit and in particular, mushrooms.

Lis (Le Imposter Design), St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2024
Lis (Le Imposter Design), St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2024

This piece, presumably entitled ‘party shrooms’ depicts three mushrooms or toadstools having a good time dancing to an imaginary beat. The piece was painted over the corner of a Hypo piece, but in a respectful way, with four black corner tabs, as if it were a photograph inserted into an album. I am loving the emergence of Lys and am very much looking forward to finding more of her work in future.

6595. Brunel Way (306)

 

Neoliberalizard, Brunel Way, Bristol, December 2024
Neoliberalizard, Brunel Way, Bristol, December 2024

Anyone who wanders around Bristol with their eyes open is likely to have seen toadstool pieces by Neoliberalizard, consciously or otherwise. I got lucky and actually encountered him while he was up a ladder, painting this piece, above the height of the recent Council buffing exercise, ha ha.

Neoliberalizard, Brunel Way, Bristol, December 2024
Neoliberalizard, Brunel Way, Bristol, December 2024

Although it is a relatively simple design, likely full of symbolism, Neoliberalizard has done a good job with this piece, and dozens of others that can be spotted around the city. Having met him, I think possibly I may have met him a few years ago, I hope to be posting more of his subversive fungi in the future.

Death eater

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Organic terrace

a consumer of decay

from death springs new life

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by Scooj

Collared earthstar

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Autumn’s darling child

beneficiary of death

borne out of decay

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by Scooj