7265. St Werburghs tunnel (533)

Scrapyardspec, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Scrapyardspec, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

In the main, Scrapyardspec tends to paint his work in ‘cheeky’ spots that others might avoid, or simply not consider worth painting. His adaptable character lends itself very well to filling spaces in landscape or portrait orientation, again something that graffiti writers for example often struggle with.

Scrapyardspec, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Scrapyardspec, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

This piece is at the entrance of the tunnel and makes use of a textured wall that has plenty of plant growth spilling over it. Scrapyardspec’s goofy character, reverts to its more basic form – no limbs or hair here – and reminds us of his iconic and unique design. I have lots more pieces by the artist and might have to do mini gallery at some point just to catch up.

7263. St Werburghs tunnel (532)

Hypo, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Hypo, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

As if I didn’t have enough complimentary words for Hypo in my last post of his work, I guess I’ll be heaping on some more here, simply because his efforts at the moment are at such a high level. Hypo also seems to be at the heart of the Bristol street art scene currently, and last weekend was heavily involved in a 50th birthday celebration paint jam here in the tunnel for Minto.

Hypo, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Hypo, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

This piece, in wonderful flame colours, mirrors some of his other recent pieces, including the letter shapes and the decorative spheres. There is so much to like about this piece as his constant development continues.

Hypo, M32 roundabout, Bristol, September 2025
Hypo, M32 roundabout, Bristol, September 2025

 

 

7257. St Werburghs tunnel (531)

Donz, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Donz, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

It is always a rather pleasant surprise to find a Donz piece in town because he tends to enjoy painting in his ‘manor’ of L Dub (Lawrence Weston), to the north of the city. Something you can predict quite safely is that anything by Donz is going to be colourful and bright.

Donz, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Donz, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

First up, the white wall works really well with his colourful design, which could get lost without it. His letters DONZ are beautifully framed within a consistent solid black border and some fine black highlights and details. The pastel colours are nicely distributed as fills throughout. All in all, a great piece from Donz.

7237. St Werburghs tunnel (530)

Bags and Biers, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Bags and Biers, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

This is a great collaboration from time-honoured members of the No Frills crew, Bags and Biers (WD40). Bags has been out an about a fair bit this year, but Biers is rediscovering his mojo (I hope), having had a period of poor motivation with respect to painting walls.

Bags, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Bags, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

To the left, the familiar BAGS letters are filled in the two-colour way that he appears to like doing, and he includes some colour coordinated spots for decoration. The tear drops surrounding the piece add movement, looking like cartoon perspiration, if that makes any sense at all. The white highlights add just that little bit of depth to lift the letters.

Biers, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Biers, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

At last Biers has painted a combination piece, something that is a bit of a trademark of his, and he includes the iconic comic character Inspector Gadget, although in this piece he calls him ‘Inspect Her Gadgets’ whilst examining a sex toy. The letters spell out WD40 and are really nicely presented. If you are wondering why I call him Biers, it is because that is what he was writing when I first encountered him. Below is the first of his pieces I ever posted.

Biers, M32 roundabout, Bristol, February 2017
Biers, M32 roundabout, Bristol, February 2017

7233. St Werburghs tunnel (529)

Asre, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Asre, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

With this piece by Asre in the tunnel, he reverts to what he had been painting before he took a protracted break. These cheeky faces were his signature pieces, and frequented a host of North Bristol spots.

Asre, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025
Asre, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2025

Since his return, Asre has been concentrating on his writing and spread his wings to more spots in the city, so it was great to find this ‘traditional’ piece in the tunnel. He has kept the piece simple, with only three colours, and used nice solid lines throughout. Great stuff from Asre.

7217. St Werburghs tunnel (528)

Mr Crawls, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2025
Mr Crawls, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2025

Fishing calls. Very quick one.

Mr Crawls and Mote have been at it again with these tunnel-end pieces on each side of the archway. The pigeon by Mr Crawls is his latest character favourite, and is getting better with each rendition.

Mote, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2025
Mote, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2025

On the other side, Mote has painted this unusual moustachioed character. I haven’t seen too many people portrait pieces by Mote, and it is interesting to see how his style comes through. Looking forward to seeing more of these sophisticated pieces from him.

7204. St Werburghs tunnel (527)

Zinso, St Werburghs, Bristol, September 2025
Zinso, St Werburghs, Bristol, September 2025

The return of Zinso to the streets of Bristol has been something of a revelation this summer, and his characters from a few years ago betrayed his talent as a graffiti writer. His style and use of bright colours has made a significant contribution to the scene this year and continues to do so.

Zinso, St Werburghs, Bristol, September 2025
Zinso, St Werburghs, Bristol, September 2025

This piece, in St Werburghs tunnel, is like sunshine in the sky with clouds. Whether that was a conscious colour palette decision or not I don’t know, but it works really well for me, especially in the gloom of the tunnel. The solid fills are nicely blended in horizontal stripes and there are some nice reversed-out patterns too, but generally it is not over-fussy. A blue shadow around the piece complements the letters and generally reflects the crisp and tidy feel to the whole piece. Nice work from Zinso.

7183. St Werburghs tunnel (525)

Jee See, St Werburghs, Bristol, July 2025
Jee See, St Werburghs, Bristol, July 2025

Jee See doesn’t paint too much these days, but it is always great to find one of his SEISMIC pieces. This one from earlier this year in July was part of a Free Palestine paint jam, once again using street art as a place to comment on the issues of the day. This and other pieces offer a commentary and through this blog, I record them, archiving a little slice of our local and global history.

Jee See, St Werburghs, Bristol, July 2025
Jee See, St Werburghs, Bristol, July 2025

Jee See has been writing his angled SEISMIC letters for as long as I have known him, which must be ten years or so. In this piece the letters are draped in the colours of the Palestinian flag. No further words are needed. We all know what is happening. We all know that the Israeli state is committing genocide. We just want it to stop and to bring peace to the region.

7180. St Werburghs tunnel (524)

Mr Klue, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2025
Mr Klue, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2025

I can’t quite remember if this combination piece from Mr Klue was painted in one session or two, but since they are by the same artist, it doesn’t really matter that much. It is quite unusual to find writing and the Mad Hatter character by Mr Klue adjacent to one another, so this is quite special.

Mr Klue, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2025
Mr Klue, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2025

Mr Klue’s gift for creating ephemeral graffiti writing is unparalleled in Bristol and his character is iconic, especially in this area. There are some great colours here and a lightness of touch that is a signature of his work. A real treat in the tunnel.

7116. St Werburghs tunnel (524)

Hypo and Minto, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2025
Hypo and Minto, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2025

This is another fabulous collaboration from Hypo and Minto, who seem to team up reasonably regularly and clearly enjoy painting together. The little tag – ‘Hypo Minto combo’ captures the friendship really well.

Hypo and Minto, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2025
Hypo and Minto, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2025

Hypo has smashed it with his writing. The colours are magnificent and transition through the piece with grace and style. The shading, and in particular the white highlights, help the piece to pop and create a superb 3D effect. Truly outstanding. Alongside the letters, Minto has painted a contrasting greyscale character portrait, and a tribute to Dave I guess. The combination piece just works – a classy collaboration.