Minto has had a great summer, creating some truly memorable pieces around Bristol, and of such a high quality too. His distinctive style has been carried through all of them and this is no exception.
Minto, M32 roundabout, July 2026
The heavily disguised letters, spelling, of course, MINTO, are beautifully embellished with swirls, patterns, lines and colour, but all seemingly beautifully balanced and interconnected. Midway through, there is the inclusion of a small character, wearing a helmet with goggles and smoking a cigarette. Such mini-characters often organically emerge fom Minto’s work, augmenting the busy mix. Another very nice piece from the artist.
I have once again found myself very short of time, which is likely to be the case until I go on holiday in mid-September. The upshot… another post of previously published photographs from the street art side of my blog that feature doors, often in the loosest possible interpretation or squeezed to the side of a photograph as an incidental door, but doors nonetheless. Hope you enjoy this selection of doors that first appeared on Natural Adventures in June – August last year:
Ejits, Hannover Place, Bristol, June 2025Nina Raines, Dean Lane, Bristol, June 2025Rowdy, St Michael’s Hill, Bristol, June 2025Nice One, Brunel Way, Bristol, July 2025Jimmer Wilmott, Knowle West, Bristol, July 2025Squarms, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, July 2025Minto, M32 roundabout, Bristol, August 2025Scrapyardspec, Purdown, Bristol, July 2025
So that’s it for this week – I’ll try and find some time to get a bit more organised for next week – I have some greart doors lined up, but not quite ready to go. Have a great weekend when it comes.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s weekly Thursday Doors post and his Sunday recap.
If you ever want to get a feel for wildstyle graffiti wrtiting at its best, you don’t need to go much further than the L Dub spot, which at any one time will host several superb examples, which tend to be left very much alone by taggers, who rarely venture to such out of the way places.
Turoe, L Dub, Bristol, June 2026
This gorgeous piece by Turoe is a great example opf what I’m talking about. His elaborate letters are perfectly filled with a small but strong red drop shadow and clean white border. There is a lilac cloudy background which frames the writing nicely. Simply classy.
It would seem that Conrico rather likes this particular spot, as the previous piece here was his fabulous two-panel cats work, featured here a few weeks back. Unfortunately the cats piece got tagged and didn’t last very long and he replaced it with this eye-catching portrait piece.
Conrico, Greenbank, Bristol, June 2026
The portrait is more stylised than many of his pieces, both in terms of the rich flesh tones and the bold use of those tones to build depth through light and shadow. I like the proportions that Conrico has presented in this piece, with two thirds of the space occupied by a seascape, bringing more focus on the subject to the right. As ever, nicer work.
A quick jaunt back into my June archive revealed this beauty from Solar on the long wall at Cumberland Basin. I would offer my subjective view and say that Solar’s work this year has risen to the next level, and he is turning out some outstanding work.
Solar, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, June 2026
Solar’s unusual and anti-style work is perversely becoming quite conventional, simply because he has established himself and made a mark. This is no bad thing, because he retains his identity and developing style. In this wonderfully fragmented piece, the outline is incomplete, and the fills drift way beyond the boundaries. A sense of order is maintained by the pink and magenta decorations that have stuck to the script and frame the piece beautifully. Cool work.
Although I haven’t seen all that many pieces by Mysto, I have seen enough to know that he has a certain style. This piece, however, appears to break from his normal convention and presents as something quite different.
For a start, his letters in this piece are far less disguised than usual, and easily readable. The letters are reasonably uniform and the midline picked out with a dark green colour, providing a little depth, alongside the drop shadow. The piece is rounded off with some ‘lazy’ bubble shapes around the outside. Nice and unexpected piece.
Kid Crayon, Upfest 2026, Stillhouse Lane, Bristol, May 2026
A tiger playing a melodica… what could be more Upfest than that? This outstanding piece by Kid Crayon is all the more remarkable for the facts that it was painted in the rain, while the artist was suffering from food poisoning.
Kid Crayon, Upfest 2026, Stillhouse Lane, Bristol, May 2026
This is an unusual piece from Kid Crayon as it doesn’t really play into his usual stylistic tropes, and had it keen unsigned, it might have been difficult to identify him from the artwork alone. There is a nice balance in the piece, with the tiger in the foreground, with a chain and hoodie, while behind home is a nighttime urban landscape and bright full moon. Pure quality and class.
Afonsoul, Upfest 2026, West Street, Bristol, August 2026
At this year’s Upfest, there was a good balance between large feature walls and hoardings, to suit the needs of artists and their styles. Remarkably, the organisers managed to find a whole set of new walls around South Bristol, of which this is one.
Afonsoul, Upfest 2026, West Street, Bristol, August 2026
I watched for a while as Afonsoul painted this piece, high up on the scaffolding, but could only admire the piece when I went back to visit in August when the scaffolding was down. It is a wonderful portrait piece and one in which you lose yourself in the artwork and forget that there are windows all the way through. A superb Upfest mural by the visiting Afonsoul.
One of the most memorable moments of my wanderings over the three weeeks of Upfest was catching up with Bristol artist Conrico while he was painting this piece. He is a kind man and always up for a chat. It was a very hot day when I stopped by his piece, and he could see I was uncomfortable. He offered me his fine water spray and fan to cool myself down – a true gent. We also experienced a magnificent natural moment as one of the adjacent trees was shedding its fine and fluffy seeds, turning a hot spring day into a winter snowstorm, quite incredible.
Conrico, Upfest 2026, Greville Smyth Park, Bristol, May 2026
The colourful portrait piece features a woman clasping something bright in her hands with plasma bolts emanating from them and a cheeky moth. I’m not too sure what the story is here. I love the way Conrico has capured the pattern on the woman’s jumper – brilliant. An interesting selection for an Upfest piece, but one that shows off his ‘paint brush’ style perfectly.
Inzi One, Upfest 2026, Greenway Bush Lane, Bristol, May 2026
Continuing on from yesterday’s post and the aquatic theme, is this wonderful fish by Inzi One. I couldn’t find out a huge amount about the artist, but she has a Facebook page that presents her brief biography as follows: InziOne is a Freelance Artist working in Graphic Design, Custom Vehicle Graffiti, Set Design, Murals, & Video Production. From logos to one off pieces, through to entire video creations. Looking at her Instagram tells me she loves skateboards and doesn’t paint murals all that often.
Inzi One, Upfest 2026, Greenway Bush Lane, Bristol, May 2026
Carp and other fish can have a tangible calming effect if you stop and watch them for long enough, and Inzi One has captured that tranquility perfectly in this piece and added in some nice lilypads and flowers to boot. A fine contribution to Upfest, tucked away on the long Greenway Bush Lane hoarding.
