Graffiti – Page 9 – Natural adventures

7290. Cumberland Basin

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’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.

7289. Dean Lane skate park (884)

Mr Crawls, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2025

Haha! I love this three character piece by Mr Crawls. A simple, and rather curious design of characters that conveys emotions and humour in equal measure. As you might expect, the threesome are painted onto a chrome background, one of the signatures of Mr Crawls and his painting pal Mote.

The characters have plenty about them, even though they are composed mainly of eyes and shoulders. The middle one has a rather expressive mouth, and the shading in the eyes of the green ones gives the impression that they are looking inwards. I rather like these abstract beings that Mr Crawls has developed, and I think he likes them too.

7288. Cumberland Basin

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.

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.

7287. Moon Street (109)

Moon Street used to be one of my favourite spots, but the amount of development in the area has reduced turnover of street art and I don’t visit it all that often these days. On my last trip, walking to work, which in itself is a rarity as I mostly work from home, I spotted this strikingly different piece of artwork.

I don’t know who the artist is, but found the letters VP, so that is what I am going with. The rather creepy piece is composed of a portrait of a woman with pink hair and psychedelic eyes surrounded by multi-eyed ghosts. I wonder if it had been painted for Halloween, but don’t really have any way of dating it.

The artwork is something a little different and painted with brushes rather than cans. I have to say that I really like this, and would love to see more from the artist, but I get the sense it is probably a one-off.

7286. Dean Lane skate park (883)

Asre now has a full head of steam having returned to the Bristol scene this summer. I am struggling to keep up with all his pieces, having photographed another three last weekend. This is a rather pretty beast in Dean Lane from last month.

The tried and tested combination of pink and blue work well in this piece. His letters are nicely designed and uncomplicated, with a solid blue fill and steady black border. The clouds are in two shades of pink which offset the letters beautifully. More to come soon from Asre.

7285. Cumberland Basin

Hire, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, October 2025

This wonderful piece of graffiti writing got me doing a bit of detective work, which happens when I don’t recognise a particular piece or artist. It took me a while, but I got there in the end to find out that it is by Ahum (obvious once you see it), an artist who has featured in the pages of Natural Adventures under the name of Blimma Blamma.

Wow, It is incredible how wrong you can be sometimes. The piece is by Hire and not by Ahum. I had convinced myself otherwise. I think I might be going slightly mad.

The letters HIRE are beautifully presented, with a fine midline and a deep drop shadow, perfectly offset with an orange bubbly decoration. Something as little different and joyous from Hire.

7284. St Werburghs tunnel (538)

Face 1st, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

It was an absolute delight to catch up with Face 1st while he was painting this piece at Kool Hand’s birthday celebration paint jam. We chatted for a long while about our shared common interests in nature and nature-friendly farming practices, such as regenerative farming, something he is keen to practice in his new home of Herefordshire.

These photographs are a little blurry… something went wrong with my iPhone camera in the darkness of the tunnel, but I wanted to share the piece nonetheless. Face 1st has been enjoying playing with his letter style and here he has crafted a script font with a deep drop shadow. Alongside is a small character laughing girl, and above it a motif by Soap. There was a good turnout for Kool Hand’s.

7283. Stokes Croft

Wilko and Boxi, Stokes Croft, Bristol, October 2025

More wheatpaste action from Wilko and Boxi, in advance of their upcoming exhibition. I have a feeling that it was Wilko who has been busy pasting these up around Bristol on behalf of both of them.

Regular readers will know that I am rather partial to wheatpastes, as they bring a completely different aspect to the spectrum of street art that we see around us. Some people don’t like them, because they become scruffy when they decay or because they get pasted up in inappropriate places, or because they are against street art more broadly. Funny how such people appear to be totally at ease with the plethora of advertising we are subjected to on the streets, as if it is somehow more legitimate and less offensive…

These are nice representatives of their artistic styles with draw on many influences.

7282. Cumberland Basin

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 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.

7280. St Werburghs tunnel (537)

Zake, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

This puffy-faced character piece is by Zake, painted in celebration of Kool Hand’s birthday, although officially his birthday was a month earlier. It seems almost impossible to exaggerate the features in a Zake piece, but he has managed to do it here, with the result that it is all a little but disturbing, the cheeks in particular.

As I have explained many times when writing about Zake’s work, he creates so much depth in his work by playing very skilfully with light and shade, using up lighting and down lighting to cast shadows and to emphasise features. Clever work from a quiet and unassuming artist.

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	skat on Sentencing
	scooj on 7367. Greenbank (176)
	scooj on 7360. St Werburghs tunnel…
	scooj on 14 years
	scooj on 7360. St Werburghs tunnel…

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