Zinso’s return to painting walls in Bristol has been nothing short of heroic. His writing is always technically beautifully worked, with tight lines and well considered fills. He manages to present clean and crisp graffiti writing every time he ventures out.
Zinso, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2025
In this piece his letters ZINSO are painted with horizontal layers of colour fills, nicely blended, running from dark green to yellow. The thought that has gone into the background is as thorough as the letters themselves, and as a whole the presentation is excellent. Zinso is both productive and tidy.
This is an absolute corker from Zake, placing one of his iconic characters into a space suit helmet, adding layers of interest and perspective to this piece on the long wall in Cumberland Basin.
Zake, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025
I think that the piece was painted for a celebratory paint jam, but I forget now which one it was, there have been so many in the latter part of this year. Great work from Zake, always adding new and interesting ideas to his base characters.
A couple of really quick posts today, I forgot that I was going in to the office today and haven’t left myself much time. This is a wonderful mural from Silent Hobo on the newly opened Last Chance Saloon, which was revealed about two weeks ago.
Silent Hobo is wonderfully adept at painting these large murals and capturing so much that represents the young people of the city with stories and emotions throughout the piece. Two large walls beautifully painted.
Silent Hobo, Stokes Croft, Bristol, October 2025
Silent Hobo has painted city scenes and dropped clues that it is Bristol, such as the hot air balloons, but also the architecture of the buildings. The beautiful scene above the front entrance of the saloon is relevant and heart-breaking, stirring up all kinds of emotions. Brilliant work from Silent Hobo.
It is always a rather pleasant surprise to find a Donz piece in town because he tends to enjoy painting in his ‘manor’ of L Dub (Lawrence Weston), to the north of the city. Something you can predict quite safely is that anything by Donz is going to be colourful and bright.
Donz, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
First up, the white wall works really well with his colourful design, which could get lost without it. His letters DONZ are beautifully framed within a consistent solid black border and some fine black highlights and details. The pastel colours are nicely distributed as fills throughout. All in all, a great piece from Donz.
Is it really November already? It is all happening too fast for my liking. Over the years, this wall has been dominated by wonderful pieces by 3Dom, and this is another one in a top class series. It is a real ‘statement’ wall which is rarely tagged or spoilt in any way, and most pieces that appear here tend to remain for quite a while, although unusually 3Dom’s last piece here was very short-lived.
3Dom, Peel Street Green, Bristol, September 2025
In pretty much all of 3Dom’s work, there are two notable things going on, firstly, his outstanding surreal artwork and secondly a strong story or message underpinning the piece. The skull is decorated with so many interesting features and details, such as the change of colour within the pink circle, the independently patterned eyes, and the floating lower jawbone. The messages ‘unity is power’ and ‘resistance is fertile’ (an amusing corruption of the Borg’s resistance is futile from Star Trek) speak of activism and speaking truth to power. More strength to 3Dom. A fine piece of street art.
I am really enjoying the art of Sketch. His modern pieces appear to draw so much inspiration from twentieth century styles, incorporating bright colours and abstract shapes and ideas. In this piece, Sketch seems to be experimenting on a rather busy concrete column under the M32.
Sketch, Frome Side, Bristol, September 2025
The abstract shape seems to resemble a human form, but not quite, and it has been embellished with four nicely presented spheres and four purple ‘drips’. There is a simplicity of form that conjures up lots of ideas in the mind of the viewer. I am looking forward to Sketch breaking out of this safe space under the M32 and venturing to some of the more public spots… hoping it happens.
Miso, Zase and Real143, Dean Lane, Bristol, September 2025
For a short period in September, we were privileged to see a few pieces from Zase, a well known Bristol street artist, painting alongside what I assume were friends who were visiting. It would seem that it took the enthusiasm of these friends to encourage Zase to his some walls – good news indeed. This is a collaborative wall on the side of the swimming pool at Dean Lane by Miso, Zase and Real 143.
Miso, Dean Lane, Bristol, September 2025
First up, and setting the tone with an unusual colour scheme, is this rather nice blocky piece by Miso. The piece cleverly plays with light and shade, giving the impression that the upper half is in shadow, which it isn’t. The effect is accentuated by darker shades on the upper half, and bright highlights glowing like lights. Playful stuff.
Zase, Dean Lane, Bristol, September 2025
In the middle Zase has written out his name in his anamorphic style, playing tricks with the eyes, creating an extraordinary three-dimensional effect. Again, the use of light and shade helps to create this illusion.
Real143, Dean Lane, Bristol, September 2025
To the right, and continuing the colour scheme, is another anamorphic piece, this time by Real143, and adopting a quite different overall style. This piece is much softer, with flowing rounded lines that together build an object with depth running deep into the wall. All three pieces play tricks with our eyes and this is a very special collaboration indeed.
There is not a lot more I can say about Hypo that I haven’t said in numerous previous posts. He has upped his game considerably over the last two years or so, both in terms of quality and quantity of pieces. During that time he has jumped up a couple of levels, which you can see if you take a glance at this revised gallery of his work.
Hypo, M32 roundabout, Bristol, September 2025
In this piece, Hypo uses loads of colours, indicating that it could be a ‘dregs’ piece (one which uses up what is left in spray cans) although, Hypo typically does like to use a wide range of colours. Some of his recent pieces have incorporated small spheres for decoration, and they do a great job of adding something a little extra in this work. More magnificent graffiti writing from Hypo.
Painted as part of the Bristol Mural Collective’s recent paint jam, this unusual piece is painted by Qubart, an artist I have not come across before. I have noticed that 2025 has been a year in which there have been more ‘debutants’ on Natural Adventures than ever before, which speaks of both the growth in numbers of people who want to paint the streets and that Bristol is a number one destination for street art and graffiti.
Qubart, Lucky Lane, Bristol, September 2025
This modernist piece, that appears to be influenced by several art genres, is bold and eye-catching, quite literally. The primary colours work well with the design and the composition. It might be considered a bit weird, but in the context of everything else that I see in Bristol, it isn’t that weird at all. It is always a pleasure to be introduced to a new artist.
A gallery of small installations from the wonderful artist Mutatee. I’m not too sure if she is still active, and these pieces are from a few years ago.
Mutatee, Leonard Lane, Bristol, December 2021Mutatee, Frogmore Street, Bristol, September 2020Mutatee, Frogmore Street, Bristol, September 2020Mutatee, M32 Spot, Bristol, August 2020Mutatee, Turbo Island, Bristol, November 2019Mutatee, Turbo Island, Bristol, November 2019Mutatee, Turbo Island, Bristol, November 2019Mutatee, Moon Street, Bristol, November 2019Mutatee, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2019Mutatee, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2019Mutatee, Leonard Lane, Bristol, September 2019
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