4122. Mina Road (7)

Most street artists have a background in art, illustration or design, and many have jobs related to their craft and skills. Some supplement their income with commissions and some (the really lucky ones) derive a comfortable income from their street art and spin-offs from it, for example, Banksy, Inkie and Nick Walker. Hazard, I think, falls into the category of supplementing her income, and you will find a lot of her work around the city, on commercial or private walls that have earned her a little money.

Hazard, Mina Road, Bristol, December 2021
Hazard, Mina Road, Bristol, December 2021

This is one of Hazard’s mos recent commissions in Mina Road, and although not bold or brash, the plant piece oozes class. The mural is painted above the Haus of Hair hairdressers and looks to be a sumptuous collection of houseplant leaves (of the rainforest ilk), providing texture and depth to an otherwise ordinary wall. This is a beautiful commission and a great advert for Hazard’s work.

Ivy broomrape

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Parasitic plant

sustained by its ivy host

beautiful flowers

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by Scooj

St John’s Wort

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Pretty yellow blooms

commonly used for the blues

grown with green fingers

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by Scooj

 

  • did you see what I did there?

 

Winter Heliotrope

 

Looking for the sun

where there is none to be found

a winter beauty

 

by Scooj

 

 

Give peace a chance

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A tired peace lily

emblematic of these times;

needs some TLC

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by Scooj

Sweet death

 

Intoxicated

by your seductive perfume

I’m drawn to my fate.

 

by Scooj

Japanese Knotweed

 

Hostile alien

ornamental, unwelcome

in the native lands.

 

by Scooj

 

  • Edited because I can’t count. The word ‘hostile’ replaces ‘invasive’. Sorry fellow counters.

Wisteria

 

Cascading florets

casting out subtle purples

and pinks. And the scent.

 

by Scooj

Herbs

 

Sweet satisfying

scents of pineapple sage and

lemon thyme; Spring time.

 

by Scooj

Biozen

 

My brothers and my

sisters; plants and animals.

We are biozens.

 

by Scooj