7313. St Werburghs tunnel (545)

Rusk, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025
Rusk, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025

Minto’s birthday paint jam in the tunnel is the gift that keeps on giving, and I continue the series with this beauty from Rusk, who has had a little burst of activity this Autumn. The combination piece includes a Frankenstein’s monster character in keeping with the Halloween theme for the paint jam.

Rusk, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025
Rusk, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025

Rusk has presented his letters beautifully spelling out MINTO with the monster in place of the ‘i’. The neat and tidy letters with a drop shadow disappearing into the centre is set on a spooky background, which was common to a few pieces in the tunnel. I am loving this Rusk phase, as he doesn’t paint as often as he used to.

7309. St Werburghs tunnel (544)

Minto, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025
Minto, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025

The turnout for Minto’s 50th birthday paint jam was outstanding, and a tribute to his obvious popularity. This is his own piece from the day and reasonably modest… I expect he had rather a lot of mingling to do.

Minto, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025
Minto, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025

The small character piece is a portrait of a man wearing a hard-hat which contains the letters Minto. The bearded character is smoking and has a rather shifty look about him. There is some great depth in the features of the face, in particular the cheeks. A decent piece from the birthday boy.

7305. St Werburghs tunnel (543)

3Dom, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025
3Dom, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025

This is yet another classy piece from the Minto birthday paint jam in St Werburghs tunnel, and I am not even half way through posting these yet. The artist this time is 3Dom with some signature graffiti writing. The photographs are rather poor and the colour quality rather different from the two angles. I think I have a setting wrong on my phone. Maybe it is time for an upgrade…

3Dom, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025
3Dom, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025

The letters spell out his name, but what makes this so recognisable as a piece by him is the way the letters are filled with ‘organic’ shapes and patterns and the rows of spots and dots. 3Dom is equally talented at graffiti writing and his extraordinary surreal character pieces, an all round superstar really.

7300. St Werburghs tunnel (541)

Biers, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025
Biers, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025

For reasons that are too complicated to explain here, I don’t have my glasses with me this morning, which is making writing this post super-difficult and I am squinting, with a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp, while typing these words. Forgive any typos.

This is a superb combination piece by Biers painted to celebrate Minto’s birthday in the tunnel.

Biers, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025
Biers, St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025

The turnout for this paint jam was exceptional, covering most of the length of both walls of the tunnel with new celebratory pieces. The letters, WD40, are superbly filled with a cartoony design of lines and bubbles, and bordered with a fine black line. I feel like I should know who the character is, but I don’t. The whole thing is set on a brick wall, a common device used by graffiti artists. A really lovely piece by Biers, who might have just got his mojo back.

7298. St Werburghs tunnel (540)

Slim Pickings (Tes), St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025
Slim Pickings (Tes), St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025

A super-quick post this morning. I am visiting my mother, and have been catching up leaving little time to write today’s posts. This is a lovely piece from Slim Pickings (Tes) in the tunnel for Minto’s birthday paint jam.

Slim Pickings (Tes), St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025
Slim Pickings (Tes), St Werburghs, Bristol, November 2025

Over the last year or two, Slim Pickings has been switching up his style, and breaking away from his familiar rounded letter style. This is a wonderful example of his variation, although, the cloudy background is more consistent with his typical style. So good to watch him evolve.

7294. St Werburghs tunnel (539)

Posh, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Posh, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

Posh’s work has been something of a revelation this year. He manages to maintain a house-style which is like an elaborate sketch/scribble with both his graffiti writing and his character pieces. He also has a knack for inserting his characters large or small into places, seemingly just for the hell of it.

Posh, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Posh, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

This piece features a couple of Posh’s finest caricature characters, with bow ties, top hats, canes and monocles. They represent the epitome of poshness, which is exactly what he is setting out to do and does so well.  There is so much life in the piece, and we can only imagine what hollow conversation is going on between the pair. Great work by Posh.

7284. St Werburghs tunnel (538)

Face 1st, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Face 1st, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025


It was an absolute delight to catch up with Face 1st while he was painting this piece at Kool Hand’s birthday celebration paint jam. We chatted for a long while about our shared common interests in nature and nature-friendly farming practices, such as regenerative farming, something he is keen to practice in his new home of Herefordshire.

Face 1st, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Face 1st, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

These photographs are a little blurry… something went wrong with my iPhone camera in the darkness of the tunnel, but I wanted to share the piece nonetheless. Face 1st has been enjoying playing with his letter style and here he has crafted a script font with a deep drop shadow. Alongside is a small character laughing girl, and above it a motif by Soap. There was a good turnout for Kool Hand’s.

7280. St Werburghs tunnel (537)

Zake, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Zake, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

This puffy-faced character piece is by Zake, painted in celebration of Kool Hand’s birthday, although officially his birthday was a month earlier. It seems almost impossible to exaggerate the features in a Zake piece, but he has managed to do it here, with the result that it is all a little but disturbing, the cheeks in particular.

Zake, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Zake, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

As I have explained many times when writing about Zake’s work, he creates so much depth in his work by playing very skilfully with light and shade, using up lighting and down lighting to cast shadows and to emphasise features. Clever work from a quiet and unassuming artist.

7278. St Werburghs tunnel (536)

Mr Klue, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Mr Klue, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

Mr Klue can confuse me from time to time; his abstract pieces all have such a strong ‘brand’ feel to them, and he loves to paint the same spots in St Werburghs tunnel, that I can sometimes forget whether I have photographed or written about particular pieces. I could have sworn that I had photographed this piece some time ago, but it appears not. 

Mr Klue, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Mr Klue, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

I spoke to somebody in the tunnel a little while back, and they were most complimentary about Mr Klue’s work, and especially about the tone and lightness of touch of his paint. I agreed, and then pointed out that you could make out the letters KLUE if you looked carefully. He thanked me and went on his way. There is indeed a lightness of touch in this piece and a couple of decent scrolls to boot. Always good work from Mr Klue.

7275. St Werburghs tunnel (535)

Nips and Redeye, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Nips and Redeye, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

Although I have posted many pieces by Nips, I think that this is a first on Natural Adventures from Redeye, in spite of having dozens of his pieces in my archive. I perhaps ought to put that right. I believe that the artists might be partners, although they might simply be painting buddies. Redeye, on the right here, tends to write variants of the letters of his name and in this instance has written Ryde – not to be confused in any way with Ryder. His letters here are filled with a concoction of red, yellow and white in lovely patterns and formations, bound by a strong black line.

Nips, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Nips, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

Nips presents her letters with growing confidence, and this piece is beautifully presented in all aspects. Her strength is in her variety of fills and here she brings together a superb blend of warm and comforting oranges and purples, including some subtle reversed out spots. The drop shadow and white border to enough to define the letters and the little white highlight lines add significant depth. A fine piece from Nips.