River Avon – Page 2 – Natural adventures

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Daz Cat, River Avon, Bristol, September 2025

Daz Cat is a brilliant character artist, and continues to develop his style, which is becoming increasingly sophisticated and detailed, as you can see if you scroll back in this updated gallery of his work. This piece is painted on a bridge column alongside the River Avon (it is mid-low tide when this picture was taken)

In this clever piece, a cat person is holding/cuddling a pet cat – where does that leave us? There is a load of personality and in both characters, and the pet cat doesn’t look overjoyed with the way it is being held. Some great colours in the piece too.

I managed to catch up with Daz Cat a week or so ago in St Werburghs tunnel where he was painting a superb piece for Kool Hand’s birthday celebration paint jam – Unfortunately, when I returned four days later, his piece had been painted over by Sled One and Oust, which is a real pity.

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Creamylines, River Avon, Bristol, September 2025

I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of Creamylines’ bright and optimistic pieces, and I am forever grateful that he seems to be upping the frequency with which he is painting. These things add up to an overwhelming sense of wellbeing and a distraction from the rather depressing world around us.

This is another column piece from Creamylines albeit in a part of town that I haven’t seen him venture to before. This one is a little tidier than some of his pieces, and incorporates a myriad of colours. Eyes, faces, hills, birds, mountains and a gorgeous sun are all incorporated in this landscape as I have come to expect. Fabulous fun, and more to come from Creamylines.

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This door, at the back of a light industrial estate alongside the River Avon, has to be one of the most decorated in Bristol, although most of the time the quality of work is fairly poor. This superb cat by Daz Cat is an exception, and just shows what a good piece of artwork can do to a scruffy door.

Daz Cat has filled the space expertly with a blue faced cat wearing a white-collared orange top. Although the piece looks like it might have been painted quickly, the detail in the face of the cat is neat and tidy. There is lots of depth and contours on this three-quarter profile portrait… great work.

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Jevoissoul (slow), River Avon, Bristol, September 2025

I haven’t posted much from Jevoissoul for a while, but this piece alongside the River Avon was perhaps just too good to miss. This book ended combination piece is really neat and tidy and speaks to the artist’s progress over the last year or two.

The letters SLOW are beautifully painted in strong solid colours, without decorative fills, but sometimes less can be more, and it definitely works here. Great colour combinations too. The characters are unmistakably by Jevoissoul, and he has really made these in his very own stylised cartoon design, with their distinctive comic mouths. It is a pity that he ran out of brown for the background. All in all, a great piece.

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Asre, River Avon, Bristol, September 2025

Since returning to painting on the streets of Bristol, it appears that Asre has been preferring his graffiti writing to his cheeky character pieces. I don’t know the reasons for this change, but he is smashing it with his letters.

This is a beautifully presented piece, where all the lines and decorations, inside and outside the letters, are clean and crisp. The three autumnal colour of the fill are beautifully distributed and brought to life with reversed out stars and spots. A thick border contains the letters well and on the outside, purple splats give the piece dominance over the surrounding graffiti without the need for buffing the wall. Lovely writing.

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Scrapyardspec, River Avon, Bristol, September 2025

I always feel much happier writing about street art once I have met with the artist. For me, it feels like I have been through some process of validation and gives me confidence to speak more authoritatively about street art and the pieces in question. This lovely piece by Scrapyardspec is a case in point.

I met Scrapyardspec about a month ago, and we chatted for quite a while. He shared with me what I’d already noticed, that he was developing his characters a little bit, now that he was confident of his archetype and his painting skills were improving. Here, the character has rudimentary limbs, and a rather fetching pink hairdo. Great to see him improving and pushing his boundaries.

Goosey

Domestic goose, River Avon, Bristol, September 2025

Where shall I wander?

to the banks of the Avon

a taste of freedom

by Scooj

on seeing a domestic goose feeding free on the banks of the River Avon – an escapee? certainly not something you see all that often.

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I said a week or two back that I would try to feature Bags from the No Frills crew more often, and true to my word, here is another piece by the graffiti writer. I am writing this post yesterday, because at the time of publishing, I will be somewhere in the air between Bristol and Madeira.

As with the last piece I featured by Bags, He has separated the BA and GS of his letters with different colour regimes, a device that sems to work rather well for him. The solid fills are decorated minimally by some reversed out circles and a white star. Bags has added a little extra interest with some red zigzags that look like they have come from an oscilloscope (does that age me?). Addressing underrepresentation one day at a time.

Please excuse the next week of posts, they are likely to be a little haphazard while I am on holiday.

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Scrapyardspec, River Avon, Bristol, August 2025

I was fortunate enough to meet Scrapyardspec for the first time last weekend, and had a conversation with him that helped me to put his work into some kind of context. I’d also add that he was a really nice bloke (I was going to say young man, but somehow it sounds patronising, when it really isn’t meant to).

Scrapyardspec has been painting the streets for about two years and has lived in London, but now lives in Cheltenham (I think) but manages to get to Bristol about once a week, which would account for his productivity over recent months.

Like so many artists who work on a theme, Scrapyardspec spent a long time replicating the same basic character, but in recent weeks has been expanding the theme with additional elements. In short, he has mastered his basic approach and style and is now modifying and adapting it, adding more interest and variety to his work.

This pair of goofy characters share the same basic DNA, but one has three eyes and a wobbly tongue, where the other is more like the basic model. Both have the inclusion of brown teeth. Where this will all end up, who knows? But it is a privilege to be observing Scrapyardspec’s development.

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Squarms, River Avon, Bristol, August 2025

There is something very charming about the stylised skeleton characters painted by Squarms. They are nicely designed and consistently presented, so that it is clear and obvious that they all belong to the Squarm stable. His work feels like that of a graphic designer taking his ideas to the street.

These two small pieces are so much more than quick throw ups. The grey background has been prepared nicely so that the skulls stand out with their soft pink and light grey drop shadows. Accomplished designs presented really well by Squarms.

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