Tag: Mario Brothers

7096. Peel Street Green (46)

Sub, Peel Street Green, Bristol, July 2025
Sub, Peel Street Green, Bristol, July 2025

This decent combination piece by Sub in Peel Street Green is, as far as the Mario character goes, ‘take two’ and he has done a much better job of it this time round, demonstrating the value of practice. I published his earlier piece about a week ago and have dropped the photograph at the end of this post for comparison.

Sub, Peel Street Green, Bristol, July 2025
Sub, Peel Street Green, Bristol, July 2025

The letters are large and chunky, as I would expect from Sub, and have a very solid feel to them. The colour gradient is nicely worked and the whole combination neat and tidy. The Mario character is really well painted, with plenty of subtle shading to help bring about some depth in the character. This is a fun piece from Sub.

Sub, M32 roundabout, Bristol, July 2025
Sub, M32 roundabout, Bristol, July 2025

7078. M32 roundabout J3 (698)

Sub, M32 roundabout, Bristol, July 2025
Sub, M32 roundabout, Bristol, July 2025

Sub had a busy month in July and appears to be pushing the boundaries with his work. This piece tucked away on the M32 roundabout seems to be a practice for a combination piece he followed up with in Peel Street Green (to follow soon).

Sub, M32 roundabout, Bristol, July 2025
Sub, M32 roundabout, Bristol, July 2025

Sub’s chunky letters and deep drop shadows in icy blues, together with a couple of decorative cracks, are accompanied by a Mario character which I would describe, perhaps a little harshly, as a good first effort. It doesn’t help that the eyes are a bit untidy. What you might notice, when I post the next version of the character in a few days the vast improvement. The learning journey with Sub continues.

4089. Peel Street Green (2)

There are so many artists in Bristol whose work has never appeared in Natural Adventures before. The reasons for this are complex, but are not related to a quality or standard that needs to be met, rather to a familiarity with the work and the ‘right time’ for me to embrace them in these pages.

Krops, Peel Street Green, Bristol, November 2021
Krops, Peel Street Green, Bristol, November 2021

The latest debutant is Krops whose work is all over Bristol, with this lovely chrome piece featuring a Mario Bros. Mario in the middle. Typically, Krops uses the letters/character combination to great effect usually with the character in the middle. I have plenty of his pieces in my archives and hope to share them with you in time.

3124. Hammersmith Road

Well, here is something that you don’t see every day, a really old piece by Silent Hobo that if you saw it unsigned, could be difficult to identify as it looks not a lot like his current work.

Silent Hobo, Hammersmith Road, Bristol, August 2020
Silent Hobo, Hammersmith Road, Bristol, August 2020

Painted on a back gate, this piece, that would appear to have been here for some time, has a lot of Mario Brothers going on and the Clifton suspension bridge gives it a clear geographical reference. Finding old gems like this one is always incredibly rewarding, especially when not even looking for them.

2639. Stokes Croft

A cheeky little mosaic flower from Angus below the front window of what used to be the It’s All 2 Much art gallery in Stokes Croft. Now, either this is reasonably new (I don’t think it is) or I have been wandering around with my head in the sky. This particular design was used by Angus at Upfest 2017 and there are a few of them in Bedminster, but I’ve not noticed this one in Stokes Croft before.

Angus, Stokes Croft, Bristol, December 2019
Angus, Stokes Croft, Bristol, December 2019

Always witty and pushing for new ideas, Angus has created this Mario Brothers flower using mosaic tiles, which give it a pixellated look a la video game. So good to see his work in North Bristol… something of a rarity for this artist.