Omie – Natural adventures

6785. River Avon (81)

Omie, River Avon, Bristol, February 2025

I don’t visit this spot as often as some of the others, as it is a little further to drive for me and more difficult to squeeze into a lunchtime break. The upshot is that when I do go, there are usually a few new pieces for me to enjoy.

Omie is an artist who only came onto my radar about 18 months ago, and he has been turning out a wonderful variety of pieces in that time. He is a creative artist who changes his style completely with each new piece. The more I look at this one, the more I like it.

His chunky block letters in two shades of green and with a deep drop shadow are decorated with what I can only describe as what looks like drizzles of chocolate sauce or marmite (take your pick) running through the midline. A really clever idea and beautifully executed. The letters are set on a contrasting background of pink and orange bubbles, which provide contrast and help the piece stand out on the busy wall. Great stuff.

6671. Stapleton Road

Jevoissoul and Omie, Stapleton Road, Bristol, January 2025

The new hoarding at the very top end of Stapleton Road has been colonised pretty quickly, and I can see it becoming a popular spot over the coming months. Omie and Jevoissoul have teamed up to paint one section of the virgin hoarding, and started off with a rather fetching pink background.

Jevoissoul, Stapleton Road, Bristol, January 2025

Jevoissoul is fast becoming one of the most active street artists in Bristol, with his stylised character faces and ‘SLOW’ writing appearing pretty much all over the city. Hardly a day passes without stumbling on another new piece. Since I first became aware of his work, his pieces have become much tighter, with strong, tidy black lines and solid fills. This is a good example of his improvement.

Omie, Stapleton Road, Bristol, January 2025

Having met Omie over the Christmas break, it is so nice now to visualise the face and person behind the great writing. What I particularly like about Omie’s work is that every piece is utterly unique and different from anything else I have seen by him before. His creativity is admirable. I like the colours and the brush-stroke effect he has achieved with this piece. I wonder how long this collaboration will remain before others get to test out this new spot.

6655. St Werburghs tunnel (470)

Sworm, St Werburghs, Bristol, December 2024

Today is my first day back at work after a week away, and I am bracing myself for a whirlwind of emails, and will be hearing about How I will be helping another department, which is causing me huge anxiety, as I am already working at full capacity. Inevitably, this and other future posts will be shortened until I am in a new rhythm.

I was lucky enough to bump into Sworm and also meet Omie for the first time, who was working alongside Sworm, as they painted their Christmas collaboration.

This piece displays Sworm’s talents really well, and although the colour scheme is fairly simple, the overall writing is complex and beautifully worked. Because I saw this piece as a work in progress, I was struck by how similar the process was to how Elvs paints his pieces. Basically, Swarm started with the white fill, and then added the outline and detail as an overlay. The result is stunning. Unfortunately, when I returned to take these pictures, Omie’s letters has been overpainted, which was a real pity.

6620. Sparke Evans Park (113)

Omie, Sparke Evans Park, Bristol, December 2024

For the second day in a row, it gives me great pleasure to post a piece by Omie. I first came across Omie in January this year, and his regular interventions through the year has established him as a key player in contemporary Bristol graffiti writing.

No two pieces by Omie are alike, and his creativity is running on full throttle, which is a refreshing approach to graffiti writing. Sometimes it can even be difficult to assign a particular style to Omie, and if he didn’t paint the same letters, his work could be quite difficult to identify. In this pinky/purple piece it looks like the letters OMIE are being created in some kind of machine, with tons of plasma bolts running through the letters. Something a little Dr Frankenstein about it all. A lovely piece to share on Boxing Day.

6617. Dean Lane skate park (791)

Happy Christmas. Lots to do today, so another short entry. I was fortunate enough to meet Omie for the first time a couple of days ago, and as with nearly all the artists I meet, he is a nice person, who made time for a chat. I was pleased that he knew about Natural Adventures and appeared to appreciate my write ups of his work. It was a genuine pleasure to meet him, because I really like his original take on each and every piece he paints.

This is a wonderful piece of writing from Omie, in celebration of Pekoe’s birthday – what a fine tribute. The colours are compelling and the blended fills work nicely particularly with the addition of spots, although the orange paint is a little thin… thin paints can be a pain in the butt. Some black highlights add interest to the letters which are beautifully presented. The Darraigh referred to in the bottom right hand corner is the recent storm that swept across England in Early December.

6539. Frome Side (40)

Omie, Frome side, Bristol, November 2024

In the short time that I have been aware of the artist, Omie’s work simply gets better and better. Omie is one of those artists who uses completely different styles for each piece, with only the letters OMIE remaining constant, so you never quite know what you are going to get next, and I love that versatility and element of surprise.

This piece was painted in a large collaboration as part of Chapter 17 of the World Wall Stylers challenge, with a ‘Ninja Scroll’ theme, a 1990s Japanese animation. Omie has stuck to the theme colours really well and created something quite beautiful in pink and grey shades, bordered with a blood-red line and drips. The background is a subtly worked bamboo forest, which on its own is worthy of great praise. A fine piece from Omie.

6523. Greenbank (140)

With this character piece, Omie is demonstrating his versatility. We would normally associate his work with graffiti writing that isn’t tied down to any particular pattern or style, but here he has painted something altogether different, a robot.

I think that the character is the Iron Giant from the animated film released in 1999, and a popular subject in street art and youth culture. In this nicely crafted and tender piece, the giant is holding a spray can, ready to do some decorating. A fine departure from Omie.

6439. St Werburghs tunnel (450)

Omie, St Werburghs, Bristol, September 2024

In a post only a couple of days ago I mentioned how no two Omie pieces are the same, and this one in the tunnel rather supports my assertion. In this one, Omie presents some irregular letters in a stunning three-layered red fill, decorated in the top half with some ephemeral blue dots.

It is the 3D drop shadow that really grabs the eye in this piece though. The shadow is nice and deep, and veers off to the left of the letters in a blue tint with black stripes. If I were being picky I might note that not all of the black stripes are parallel, but fortunately it doesn’t spoil the overall effect, and most people probably wouldn’t even notice. I must say that I am very much enjoying Omie’s work, and am never quite sure what could be coming next, which is fun.

6436. Brunel Way (298)

Omie, Brunel Way, Bristol, September 2024

I know very little about Omie, but in terms of artwork, I very much like what I see. Omie is a writer who varies their work to the extent that no two pieces are even remotely alike, and there isn’t an identifiable Omie ‘house’ style, indeed it is only the letters that provide a common thread to the portfolio.

I am very much looking forward to ‘harvesting’ enough photographs to be able to share a gallery of Omie’s eclectic collection. Black and yellow make good bedfellows, being Mother Natures warning colours, and Omie has combined the colours well in these letters and augmented them with some red spots, another of nature’s danger colours. The comment ‘rain sucks’ suggests a wet day, and this particular wall can start to run really badly in the wet. Nice work from Omie.

6206. Greenbank (126)

In Bristol, there are dozens, literally, of writers bubbling under the surface. Many of these are not as well known as some of the more established graffiti writers, but every once in a while one of them breaks cover and rises up a level or two. This often coincides (unsurprisingly) with their appearance on Natural Adventures. Omie is one of those artists whose work I have noticed and admire.

The refreshing thing about Omie’s work is that every piece is completely different from the last in style and composition, which keeps things very interesting. These heavy block letters spelling out OMIE in dark grey-green tones are given extra weight by a chunky 3D drop-shadow. Some orange decoration around the outside provides plenty of contrast to help the piece stand out. Nice work from Omie.

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