M32 cycle path – Natural adventures

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Mage, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, December 2025

Mage has had a rather prolific year, more so than you might think from his occasional appearances on Natural Adventures. I will try to catch up on a few of his pieces, but might need to resort to a king of mini-gallery to catch up.

This piece, behind the Black Swan, is a nicely considered piece and Mage has spent some time, it would seem, in finishing it nicely, where sometimes his works appear to be a little rushed. Mage has chosen some great colours, I love the contrasting greens. The letter fill has a smart ‘barcode’ appearance, but for me what makes the piece is the red dots and stars that set everything off perfectly. A banging piece.

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Benjimagnetic, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, August 2025

I rather like this piece by Benjimagnetic on the cycle path, with its orange and green stripes for a background, it has something of a psychedelic look to it. The GRO letters are beautifully ‘sculpted’, with layers of geometrical shapes stacked one upon another.

The piece was painted alongside Hemper, and looking at this with hindsight I really ought to have posted them as a pair, as they shared a colour scheme. The piece is really neat and tidy, and the sharp lines are softened, ever so slightly, with the floating bubbles, a clever device. Great work from Benjimagnetic.

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Pura Decadencia, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, August 2025

Pura Decadencia has smashed it with this gorgeous piece of writing alongside the M32, behind the Black Swan. Her overall style and skill had been on an upward trajectory over the years, and she is now turning out some outstanding graffiti writing pieces.

The regular letters are filled with yellow, light blue and green with patterns reversed out from colour to colour. The letters are bordered confidently with a thick red line that helps the letters stand out. A yellow plasma line runs through the piece, and it is all presented on a black buffed wall, without which it would risk being swamped by surrounding artwork. Excellent graffiti writing from Pura Decadencia.

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Cort, M32 Cycle Path, Bristol, August 2025

This is another classy piece from Cort in a spate of good work from the artist. There is a simplicity here that offers no place to hide. The irregularly shaped letters spell out KORT, another corruption of his name. It seems these days that he is writing anything other than CORT.

The chrome letters would barely show on the white backdrop, were it not for the red outline and patterns. A subtle touch of green strategically placed brings some depth to the piece. The shout-outs I presume are friends and/or members of the PAD crew – ZIOS, also known as Trafficity. Simple and compelling.

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Kid Krishna, M32 cycle path, Bristol, July 2025

Although Kid Krishna is going through one of his slower periods at the moment, it provides me with a little space to catch up on his work. This is a cracking piece on one of the less pleasant walls to paint, but, because of that, turnover tends to be quite slow. The ‘flowerbed’ is used as a public toilet, and there is a nasty piece of razor wire that has been deposited some years ago and never dealt with.

It is difficult to make out the letters CRIE in this piece, but I have to take it on trust that they are there. The pink letters appear to be breaking their way through a purple cloud, and then there is a little character, an eye with limbs and wings adding further interest to the dynamic piece. I was there yesterday and it is still intact.

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Face 1st, M32 cycle path, Bristol, August 2025

Well this piece by Face 1st is as unusual as it was unexpected. Face 1st moved to Herefordshire earlier this year and only visits occasionally (to scratch that itch), so it is always a bonus to find one of his pieces. This looks like it was painted in a bit of a hurry, but has some interesting deviations from his typical work.

The stacked letters spell ‘Face’, with the word ‘First’ in the bottom right, so there is no mistaking the artist, with a PWA (Pirate Wall Art crew) just for confirmation. The script letters with some diagonal hatching have an extremely deep drop shadow in turquoise and is quite different from his usual writing style. The colours and lines make the whole thing look a little bit like an illustration, and has a bit of a look of Alex Lucas about it. An unusual addition to his portfolio.

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Tera, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, June 2025

I have continued to dig out Tera pieces that I failed to post at the time they were painted, so this one from June is a little out of sequence, but demonstrates really well his development, which has been so rapid.

I’m not quite sure what the overall message here is, but when I see skeletons and gold coins, I think about avarice and comeuppance. A message that I am always mindful of, and one that reinforces my dislike of selfish billionaires, is that ‘you can’t take it with you’. This piece says that to me. It is a well-painted piece that, in part, reflects his accelerated progress, and highlights some of the areas he can sharpen up on, which, in fairness, he has been doing since painting this a couple of months back.

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Face 1st, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, June 2025

I don’t think there will ever be a time when I am not happy to see a piece by Face 1st. Of course, since he moved away from Bristol, that sense of joy is heightened, because his pieces appear less frequently and have become a little bit of a rarity.

This is a classic laughing girl with big hair piece from Face 1st. The big hair spells out FACE, in script-like letters, with a very deep drop shadow. The blue tones with the white face work well, and although not the tidiest piece I have seen from the artist it is nonetheless distinctive and very, very Bristol.

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Conrico, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, June 2025

Conrico always brings something slightly different to the party. His brush-stroke style contrasts with much of the ‘solid fill’ or ‘blended’ style that most street artists work with.

In this interesting piece, which appears to be telling a story, a woman, smoking, is holding a burning piece of paper. At the base of the piece, a newspaper headline read “Bristol City Plagued by Grad…”. This must be a story that I missed, but it looks like Conrico has tried to capture it. I am none the wiser, but it is a great piece of commentary art.

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Oust, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, June 2025

Oust is a graffiti writer who is probably a little under-represented on Natural Adventures, which might reflect the fact that he doesn’t paint all that frequently, and it is possible that I miss the odd piece altogether. He seems to have been in a rich vein of form recently though, and this is one of at least three pieces I have found recently.

This birthday tribute piece for Sled One is absolutely outstanding in my view. Oust has used great colours, orange and green always work well together, and his classic style is full of great fills, depth and movement. Although the piece is busy, it isn’t cluttered. This is a classy piece of graffiti writing from Oust.

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