Street art – Page 101 – Natural adventures

6456. Muriel Alleyway (16)

HNH, Muriel Alleyway, Bristol, August 2024

This piece was painted back at the end of July at the Muriel Alleyway mini paint festival organised by Rtiiika by an artist I have not encountered before called HNH. This is the first piece I am aware of that she has painted in Bristol, and I am really looking forward to watching her development. She has already dropped a few more pieces about the place and I think she brings something very different to the graffiti writing scene.

Shutter pieces are never easy to paint, but HNH has had a bloody good go with this one, and although the piece may seem a little rough around the edges, this is a great start. If I could use a parallel, what she does with graffiti writing reminds me of what the Cocteau Twins did with music and lyrics, if that makes any sense at all. Watch this space for more from HNH.

6455. Cumberland Basin

Haka, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, August 2024

My first thought when I saw this piece was ‘who the hell is Remy’ this was not an artist I was familiar with, but very quickly the style, signature and characters leapt out making it blindingly obvious that it is by Haka. I am not sure who Remy is, but this is a rather lovely tribute to them.

Haka paints an awful lot of characters from children’s picture books and I suspect the characters here are more of the same, but I can’t identify them. The fills and patterns in the letters are rather more elaborate and tidy than I would expect from a Haka piece, and they look really fantastic. This is a lovely piece, full of fun and joy.

6454. St Werburghs tunnel (451)

Mest, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2024

I took a little wander into my archive and unearthed this little beauty by Mest at the end of St Werburghs tunnel painted back in August. It has been really great to see his work again in Bristol, albeit only occasionally, after what feels like quite a long absence.

There is something very pleasing about Mest’s letters, and he has presented them beautifully in this tight and clean piece. A little bit more background would have masked out the bits of the previous piece distracting around the edges, however the focus remains on his beautiful fills, afforded lots of space inside his fat letters. Nice to see this one.

6453. Redcliffe Way

Peggy, Redcliffe Way, Bristol, October 2024

More from the hoarding on Redcliffe Way, and this time from Peggy, and once again, these panels have been painted to support the Bristol Tattoo Convention. Peggy, like so many others, is a tattooist who has transferred her remarkable talents to decorating walls in Bristol, there is such a great crossover between the two disciplines.

Peggy’s floral pieces bring something rather different and her distinctive style is perfect for small walls and spaces that she can fill with ease. The centre of this flower is beautifully painted with a yin yang symbol. It is easy to see how this design could transfer to a tattoo.

Not content with one piece on this hoarding, Peggy decorated a second section with a larger arrangement of flowers and greenery, this time including one of her eyes in the centre of the flower. I think she may have missed a trick here, because that utility box is in serious need of a makeover, and she might have included it into the piece. Perhaps that was a risk she wasn’t prepared to take, which is fair enough.

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.

6451. New Stadium Road (59)

Logoe, New Stadium Road, Bristol, October 2024

We are in the midst of another Logoe blitz, that is to say that a couple of weekends ago he visited Bristol and dropped in excess of six pieces about the place, which is the way he rolls. He saves up all his painting energy, there aren’t many opportunities where he lives in Wales, and paints for England on his weekend visits to our city.

This is a particularly nice example of his script writing style – a lovely clean piece in beautiful copper tones, really brightening up this fairly dreary spot that still bears the smoke damage on the ceiling from an arson car blaze in this little underpass a couple of years ago. Logo is a Trojan, who simply doesn’t know when to stop, and I love it.

6450. Lower Approach Road (12)

Molly Mural, Lower Approach Road, Bristol, October 2024

Street art is often overlooked, especially if it is functional in nature and woven into our ordinary lives. This unusual piece from Molly Mural is just outside Temple Meads station, and looks like it is a commission from TCN, whoever they are. Perhaps the notable thing about the location is that it is virtually outside the best bakery in Bristol – Hart’s Bakery.

The colourful strip looks like a guiding path from a building to the bottom of the steps up to the station. There is plenty of colour and a tight design in this piece, but the overall effect is to brighten up the otherwise unexceptional tarmac. A wonderful piece from Molly Mural.

6449. M32 roundabout J3 (629)

Klashwhensober, M32 roundabout, Bristol, October 2024

Klashwhensober is as busy as ever, and I only tend to post a fraction of the pieces he produces, I expect I’ll need to go back through the archives and do a couple of sweep-ups of his work in due course. Every now and then one of his pieces catches the eye, and this one on the roundabout is one of those.

This modest spot is tucked away behind a tree, and isn’t easily seen without looking for it. Klashwhensober has written the word SOBER in ribbon letters, filled skilfully in blue and yellow, with a variety of well-painted patterns and features. There is some menace lurking in the form of clutching hands and fingers wafting from the cloudy background. I think that Klashwhensober’s pieces often indicate a busy and cluttered mind, and it would be interesting to see if he could create a piece of writing that was simpler in structure and could show off his skill as an artist. Unlikely to happen methinks.

6448. St Werburghs tunnel (451)

Kosc and Humor, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2024

Every now and again, something very special appears on the walls of Bristol, without warning or fanfare, and when you find them they blow your socks off. This collaboration between Bristol artist Kosc and Tunbridge Wells-based artist Humor is one such collaboration.

Kosc, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2024

The collaboration, I gather, celebrates the birthday of actor Jenna Ortega, who I must admit is a little bit off my radar, although I faintly recognise her from her Wednesday Addams character, and the 2021 film The Fallout looks like it might be worth watching. She clearly has a large fan base, which I assume would include Kosc and Humor. Kosc has painted a gorgeous piece of graffiti writing which picks up the colours used for the birthday candles.

Humor, St Werburghs, Bristol, October 2024

I haven’t come across Humor’s work before, but this photorealistic portrait of Jenna Ortega is quite stunning, and something we don’t see nearly enough of in Bristol, outside of festivals or commissions.

On the day I originally photographed this collaboration, there was quite a lot of glare on the wall, it can be a difficult wall to photograph, because it gets impacted by shadows and sunlight at all times of the day. I did return on a duller day, and think I got a slightly better picture with less glare (and a few more autumn leaves on the ground). Stunning work, especially when you consider it is a greyscale portrait. I would love to think that this might be the first of many visits to Bristol by Humor, but I won’t be holding my breath.

6447. Stapleton Road

Logoe and Silent Hobo, Stapleton Road, Bristol, October 2024

Logoe and Silent Hobo are good friends and on his most recent visit to Bristol, it looks like Logoe found time to hook up with his mate and collaborate on this wonder wall. The combination of writing and story telling is original and eye-catching, and goes straight into one of my favourite collaborations of 2024. Logoe has pulled out all the stops with his distinctive script writing and produces a very tight and tidy piece with transitional coloured stripes filling the letters.

Silent Hobo, Stapleton Road, Bristol, October 2024

Sitting on top of the writing, Silent Hobo is telling us a story of what looks like heart break, but without the context is difficult to be sure. Rather ominously, the first panel has a woman saying ‘We’ve been through this already…’

In the next frame, a woman, is it the same woman, is saying ‘love is not enough’, a phrase that would wilt the heart of anyone on the receiving end of the comment

The final part has a man, looking a little worse for wear, saying ‘OK’, which probably means not OK. The three panels could be stand-alone pieces, or part of a continuous conversation, and I guess that it is for the viewer to decide which. A magnificent collaboration from this pair.

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	scooj on 7422. Stapleton Road
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