Sepr – Natural adventures

7829. Lodge Causeway

Sepr, Lodge Causeway, Bristol, July 2026

This is a magnificent piece by Sepr which I was lucky enough to find quite by accident recently during a trip to scout out three hoardings in Fishponds. I had been aware of the piece for a while, but simply didn’t know where it was.

It is annoying that many of the best walls and spots are adjacent to car parks, and because of that parts of the pieces painted are obscured by vehicles. It is a known known, but nonetheless irritating. You have to get really lucky to find such murals with a clean view. This piece is unsurprisingly on the side of the Greyhound pub.

Sepr has stuck well to the brief , featuring a greyhound racing round a dog track, with some creatures gambling at a table on his back. Added to the charming scene are random animals – a hedgehog and mole, some rabbits in a tortoise car and more rabbits in a bird-shaped aeroplane. So much going on and plenty of good humour – a classic Sepr piece.

7785. Brunel Way (362)

There are no two ways about it, Sepr has to be one of the greatest creators of graffiti characters around. It is not only his perfect execution that draws the eye, but his creative concepts that make his work so compelling… his ability to tell stories through his artwork. Stories that the viewer can make up, depending on how they interpret what they are looking at.

In this piece, we have a three-toed sloth dressed in a smart suit, holding a briefcase with the letters ASK embossed on it, and holding a mobile telephone with the word ‘Yoooooo!’ in a speech bubble. For me this is a throwback to the late 1980s/early 90s where such work executives paraded around as if they were the most important people ever. We all knew they were jumped-up self-important twits, many of whom ended up running the country in one form or another. Generally speaking sloths in a suit.

7657. Stillhouse Lane – Upfest 2026 (3)

Sepr, Upfest 2026, Stillhouse Lane, Bristol, May 2026

The organisers of Upfest have been keeping busy since the last Upfest in 2024, and incorporated a host of new walls to show off local, national and international talent for this year’s festival. This wall is tucked away just south of the east end of East Street, and is in an area I’m not sure that I have ever been to before. The wall is on the side of a light industrial unit called Willway Yard, with plenty of space for multiple artists. One of the first to complete his allocated space is Bristol artist Sean Sepr.

Sepr has an extraordinary talent for telling elaborate stories in his cartoon-style pieces. Everything is laid out with clarity and humour, and then it is up to the viewer to piece it all together into some kind of narrative. My reading of the situation is that a cyclist has had a bit of an accident, running into some wet concrete perhaps and rather than helping him, a collection of animals are taking advantage of the unfortunate protagonist and generally being unhelpful. I love the way the fox is stealing his shoes and socks. Creative and imaginative.

6889. Greenbank (155)

Sepr and Pekoe, Greenbank, Bristol, April 2025

I’m not sure why, but I am always surprised (and thrilled) when I see collaborations between Pekoe and Sepr. Somehow in my head I don’t see them as natural collaborators, but how wrong I am. This delightfully witty piece on the long hoarding at Greenbank took me several attempts to get decent pictures. The fine weather we have been experiencing has a downside which is that full sun causes shadows to be cast everywhere. Eventually I took advantage of an overcast day and made my way to the spot.

The combination tells a story of a headless chicken, and in the left hand side, Sepr has created one of his superb cartoon characters, in this case a ‘one chicken band’. Obviously the festive bird wasn’t to everyone’s taste and the decapitated body marches on as the head complete with party hat watches on.

The perpetrator of the violent crime is a rather charming young woman wielding an axe, which makes one feel a little uncomfortable. Pekoe has done a great job here and unusually has painted more of a full character than her more usual head portrait. I have noticed that recently she has also been painting traffic cones in her pieces, like a little signature. The collaboration is witty, gruesome and really well painted. It would be great to see more of these story pieces from these great artists.

6642. Sussex Street

Sepr and Andy Council, Sussex Street, Bristol, December 2024

This is a wonderful political commentary collaboration from Sepr and Andy Council, who are unhappy with the Government’s attitude towards the situation in Gaza. On the left Sepr has painted a passive protest piece featuring a dove sitting on an olive branch. It is both witty and poignant and is beautifully painted.

Sepr, Sussex Street, Bristol, December 2024

To the right, Andy Council presents on of his ‘stitched together’ composition creature pieces, which this time is a snail, perhaps representing the slow speed of any progress on ending the Israeli occupation and systematic demolition of Gaza. The snail is painted in the colours of the Palestinian flag. Brilliant stuff from the duo.

Andy Council, Sussex Street, Bristol, December 2024

6553. Gloucester Road

Sepr, Gloucester Road, Bristol, November 2024

As the crow flies, this is probably one of thee nearest pieces of street art to where I live, and I probably pass it a few times a week. I hadn’t noticed until recently that it had changed. Sepr painted a piece here back in February 2020, and you can just see a little bit of that black and white piece on the left of this banner on the Filthy XIII bar.

This new piece (although I don’t know how new) Features a man and a couple of birds chilling with some rather gaudy cocktails. Sepr has filled the thin horizontal strip perfectly, and his unique cartoon style is full of humour and warmth. Fabulous work.

Sepr, Gloucester Road, Bristol, February 2020

6493. Chatterton Square (10)

Sepr, Chatterton Square, Bristol, October 2024

Opposite the entrance road into Temple Meads station there is a little road that leads to Chatterton Square, which isn’t really a square at all, but a road running behind the Holiday Inn Express. There are some walls and a long hoarding that surrounds a plot of land where a disused petrol station languishes, providing a central spot for street art and graffiti.

This section of hoarding is adjacent to one of the buildings of the petrol station and together with RichT, Sepr did a great job of decorating it. This piece is a series of little sketches and I think it might be a ‘sampler’ for his tattoo work, because each of these little designs would make a wonderful tattoo. I particularly like the penguin charming the snake and the clockwork mouse. This is an unusual and striking piece from Sepr.

6452. Redcliffe Way

Sepr, Redcliffe Way, Bristol, October 2024

These small pieces by Sepr have been lurking on the hoarding on Redcliffe Way for quite a while and have been on my ‘hit list’ for ever, I am glad at last to have photographed them before they have degraded too much or been tagged. I have a feeling that they might have been painted to promote the Bristol Tattoo Convention.

Both of these small pieces resemble samples or examples that tattooists offer their clients. King Cooper refers to an artist called James Cooper, who ran his business Dapper Signs, a sign writing company in Bristol, and who tragically died in 2023 aged 42. He was hugely respected by the urban art community.

Sepr’s second piece on this hoarding is a rather lovely character piece featuring a heart and an apple? With an arrow running through it. A conflation of William Tell and Cupid perhaps. Such simple yet expressive pieces, and both so obviously designed by a tattooist.

6132. Upfest 2024 (29)

Sepr, Upfest 24, The Nursery, Bristol, May 2024

I have mentioned before that Upfest has a blend of local, national and international artists every year, but what is noticeable this year is that many of the Bristol-based artists have been given large feature walls to paint, which is great to see, and to be able to showcase some of our own homegrown talent.

This is an outstanding mural from Sepr, who is no stranger to the pages of Natural Adventures – you can see more of his work in this gallery. The green colour palette is masterfully worked in this cartoon-style balloon ark. There is a wonderful story unfolding here of animals sharing a balloon trip (balloons, like street art, being one of Bristol’s USPs) under a warm sun. Sepr has designed the piece to work around the doors and windows of the house, which interestingly has no window above the door, allowing more mural space. In my view, this is a masterpiece of stylised cartoon street art that brings smiles to the faces of passers-by. Awesome.

6027. Turbo Island

Sepr and 3Dom, Turbo Island, Bristol, May 2024

Turbo takes an awful lot of punishment. This little corner of Stokes Croft represents the heart of Bristol rebellion. Occupied at various points by the homeless, addicts, drunks, revellers, artists, tourists, the curious even. It is a spot impacted by footfall, fires and tagging. For many years, a beautiful Sepr scarecrow mural loomed large on the end wall but over time it has degraded, so up steps the hero of the day, Sepr, ably accompanied by 3Dom to refresh the wall.

Sepr has stuck quite close to his original piece, sticking with the literal scare crow idea painted in a clever contrasting black and yellow two-tone colour scheme. A troupe of performing mice accompany the crow, who is drinking out of a ‘Bob’ mug.

3Dom has done all of us a great service in painting the utility box with one of his magnificent symmetrical radiating, organic pattern pieces. This utility box is usually festooned with hundreds of peeling fly-posters that add to the general untidiness of the spot. I’m sure it won’t be long before we can no longer see this beautiful splash of colour. Beautiful, witty, charming and just what the spot needs.

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	scooj on 7858. Quakers Art Lane
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