Purdown – Natural adventures

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Kool Hand, Purdown, Bristol, October 2026

I think it would be fair to say that I have slightly neglected Kool Hand’s excellent work this year, and I still have several of his pieces in my archive to post at some point by way of remedying the situation. This is a recent one from up at Purdown which was painted alongside the Daz Cat piece that I posted yesterday.

I don’t think that I’ll ever tire of Kool Hand’s animals, in particular his orangutans and leopards, which are painted in a style that incorporates strong black outlines and solid fills. Simplicity that delivers, like the work of Roo. This leopard, I imagine is wearing a red bucket hat, but the top is cut off, so I’ll never know for sure. I like the way he has incorporated the Purdown telecommunications tower in the piece. More to come when I get my act together.

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The turnover up at Purdown has been on the slow side this year, I know this, because I quite regularly walk the dog up there – one of his favourite walks. Fortunately it is a place that Daz Cat is rather fond of and so I live in hope that I’ll find one of his pieces, and got lucky on this occasion.

Daz Cat has used the square space well, fillinng every inch of it with his composition. A cat appears to be having a hot cup of tea, but, probably because of the colours, I keep seeing bangers and beans throughout the piece, and once seen can’t easily be unseen. I am not sure iof this is intentional by Daz Cat, or simply my interpretation. Still a wonderful piece either way.

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If you look hard enough around the city of Bristol, you will find the words Nice One on buildings, on motorway underpasses and around unexpected corners. The artist gets himself pretty much everywhere. His letters are often accompanied by a character of landscape, but here in Purdown it is just Nice One’s letters.

This is a clever piece Which is painted on walls that protrude from the perimeter to different amounts and can only be accurate when viewed fromdirectly in front. If viewed from the side, you can see that the writing is at two depths. Nice One woulkd have had to compensate for this, making the further away letters larger. A skilled study in perspective and depth from Nice One.

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It can be difficult sometimes to identify unsigned pieces, and it can take a bit of luck swiping through Instagram profiles to reveal the artist. So it was with this piece. I was looking up Mr Sleven for a recently posted poster piece, and spotted this in his feed. Pennies dropped and I am freed to post it now.

Perhaps the reason I didn’t think of Mr Sleven immediately when I spotted the piece, is that he has been inactive for quite a while. The message is clear, ‘Love Wins’, although the skull with an arrow through it might imply a broken heart, so a little confusing. A heart patterned background is being obscured by a blue dripping sheet of colour. Lots to like about this striking piece.

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No fuss, no bother. What you see is what you get from this throw up piece by Butch. There is no pretension from this graffiti writing, simply his skeleton format, without frills. Often a piece like this would struggle to make the cut for Natural Adventures, but I like his work and include it when I can.

I’ll be popping up to Purdown this morning for a dog walk, it is one of the few graffiti spots where both the dog and I get what we each need from a walk. The yellow and black letters overlapping from the left reflect the parcherd grass and contrast with the wide dramatic sky. A nice straightforward piece.

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The Cat Came Back, Purdown, Bristol, August 2026

One of the genuine pleasures of cataloguing street art over a long period of time is that you get to witness the comings and goings of certain artists as their lives take twists and turns. The Cat Came Back is a great example of an artist who made an appearance a few years ago and then all but disappeared until a month or so ago with a significant and welcome return.

The Cat Comes Back has come back rejuvinated and with great ambition. This is a clean piece and quite a statement, in so much as it is difficult to ignore. The cat fits the square concrete slab perfectly, and has all the attributes of a great cartoon character piece. Looking forward to more cats on our streets.

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I do like it when Mr Klue ventures beyond his beloved St Werburghs tunnel, so finding this Mad Hatter piece at the gun emplacement up at Purdown made me very happy.

All the elements of a Mr Klue classic are here. The large hat with the ticket in the band, the invisible head, and the shirt and stripy tie, finished with a wisp of smoke rising to the left. I love the perspective created by light and shadow, and the use of pink for the left of the piece and yellow for the right. Great work from Mr Klue.

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Creamylines, Purdown, Bristol, February 2026

Another day and another wonderful piece from Creamylines, an artist who has been knocking it out of the park recently. Unlike most artists in Bristol, Creamylines tends to paint solo, and maybe that’s just how he likes it. It would be interesting, one day, to see him collaborate with others, it could bring about some exciting outcomes.

The central element of this composition is a friendly snail carrying the landscape narrative on its back, and that landscape contains the smorgasbord of sun, birds, hills, ponds, faces, figures and abundant nature that we might expect. Charming and full of the good things in life, I am so much enjoying Creamylines’ purple patch.

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Creamylines is having something of a purple patch both in terms of quality and quantity of his pieces. This is one of two that I found up at Purdown on a recent dog walk, and I can’t tell you how pleased I was to see them.

There is an unbridled sense of optimism in Creamylines’ work that taps into the essentials of our existence – sunshine, landscapes, nature and people, stripping things back to core values and experiences as humans. This gorgeous piece is less busy than some of his works, allowing our eyes time to alight on some of the details. I love the watercourse at the bottom of the piece, and some of the faces peering in. Thank you Creamylines for making the world a brighter place.

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Slakarts, Purdown, Bristol, February 2026

Slakarts doesn’t paint on the street much these days, but the last two pieces I have found by him have both been up on Purdown on the square concrete slabs of the old WWII gun emplacement. I guess it is a place he feels comfortable painting, a little less exposed than the streets.

This is a lovely abstract piece containing his usual character, which has been absorbed a little into its surroundings, and there is some ambiguity to his features. Slakarts has used some great colours in this fun and uplifting piece.

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