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6420. Upfest 2024 (52)

Jimmer Wilmott, Upfest 24, The Tobaccco Factory, Bristol, September 2024

Somehow this piece by Jimmer Wilmott passed me by at this year’s Upfest, and I only got to see it recently during a visit to a few spots with Paul H, including the Tobacco Factory. Sunday is the best day to visit this spot, because there are no cars in the parking spaces, which are immediately in front of the wall. Saturdays would also be good, if it weren’t for the market, which clogs things up a bit.

Jimmer Wilmott has been working in the studio on canvass with his ‘alphabetti spaghetti’ pieces for quite a long while now, but this is the first wall I am aware of that he has decorated in this way. The concept is simple and brilliant and somehow he achieves a photorealistic presentation, which causes many a double-take. Spelling ‘Jimmer was ere’, this is a creative delight from one of the most creative talents in Bristol.

6419. Upfest 2024 (51)

Hardy, Upfest 2024, Greville Smyth Park, Bristol, May 2024

It was a real pleasure to catch up with Hardy at Upfest 24 at the time that he was painting this piece, and he had plenty of kind words to say about my posts on Natural Adventures, which I always find a little bit surprising, because I really have no idea (beyond the core readership of the blog) who reads this stuff, and whether they value it. The function of my street art/graffiti posts is to keep a living record of contemporary street art in Bristol, if people visit and enjoy, then I am doubly satisfied.

Hardy has used this space well to spray four of his distinctive stencils, in two sizes and in different colours, and decorated the rest of the area with symbols and patterns, without which the stencils might look a little stark. Brightening up this space for Upfest.

6418. Brunel Way (295)

Kosc, Brunel Way, Bristol, September 2024

I am still a little under the weather with Covid this morning, so only short posts today. This is a wonderful piece of chrome graffiti writing from Kosc in a spot that he has painted before, but I don’t usually associate with him.

The letters are made up in the style of riveted sheets of metal, a device used by many writers and one that is very effective. Kosc has perfected this style.

Long in the tooth

When it rains it pours

tossed in a sea of covid

tooth fragment shears off

by Scooj

6417. Dean Lane skate park (763)

Mr Crawls, Dean Lane, Bristol, September 2024

The curved wall in Dean Lane skate park is one of the most iconic and popular in Bristol as evidenced by the thick layers of paint that periodically peel off, often more than a centimetre thick. You can get a feel for the popularity of the wall from my updated ‘one wall many faces’ gallery of this wall

Mr Crawls has done us proud with one of his bird characters that have become so familiar around the city. One of the things that I love about his work is that he is constantly evolving and that even though he may return to former themes and subjects he always incorporates new elements that he has picked up along the way. This is a particularly attractive bird.

6416. Cumberland Basin

Soker and Sled One, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, September 2024

When the best get together, small miracles happen. And when I look at a collaboration between Soker and Sled One, I find myself asking (again) how do they do this? Of course, I know how they do it, but technically and creatively it becomes unfathomable.

Soker, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, September 2024

The writing to the left is by Soker, and I would like to add that it is wonderful to see him out painting a little more often these days after a prolonged quiet period. The beautifully crafted letters are filled with a stunning combination of colours that work perfectly together. This is wildstyle graffiti writing at its best.

Sled One, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, September 2024

The character piece is by Sled One and features a young man (self-portrait?) gazing into a lava lamp filled with trippy smiley faces that bleed into the rest of the collaboration. Sled One not only creates these marvellous characters and scenes, but tells a whole story, which the viewer is challenged to piece together. This is a very special collaboration.

Covid revisited

Sea of waking dreams

and fever-induced phantoms

sleepless soaking nights

by Scooj

I stole the first line from the poem ‘I am’ by John Clare.

6415. Dean Lane skate park (762)

Hypo, Dean Lane, Bristol, September 2024

I am really flagging. This is a beauty from Hypo, who I met at the M32 roundabout a couple of days ago. He continues to turn out quality pieces with great regularity, and this one is so full of energy and effervescence.

We talked a little of his penchant for symmetry, and chatted about Werm who is going through a phase of writing his letters with a bilateral symmetry. In symmetry lies perfection… That’s yer lot, back to bed for me.

6414. Brunel Way (294)

Wispa, Brunel Way, Bristol, September 2024

I have Covid. A pretty strong dose of it and am rather under the weather. This would go some way to explaining why I am late with today’s posts. Natural Adventures has strong ties with viruses, it was started in February 2015 while I was recovering from a really bad bout of flu. But for that I might not be sitting here writing right now.

Wispa reminds me of Maria Von Trapp, a flibbertygibbet, a willow the wisp, a cloud. Her name would appear to be a good description of the way she travels the country, never staying too long, so it seems. This is a nice piece of writing that was painted alongside Werm a week or two back. Nice stuff and great to know she has been visiting.

Thursday doors – 4 October 2024 – Doors of Central London

Doors 280 – Doors of Central London – Part I – March 2024

As ever I continue to find myself pressed for time, and today is no exception. I am heading down to Cornwall later this morning on my annual fishing break with my long-suffering best mate. There may be an impact on next week’s Thursday Doors, as I return on Wednesday and will have a lot of catching up to do at work on Thursday. We’ll see.

These photographs were taken on a walk from a workshop I was running near Southampton Row in London back in March to the house where I lived with my parents after I left school and during my University years – more of that place in a couple of weeks. I love being able to combine my work trips/meetings/workshops/events with urban walks sniffing out doors and graffiti. On to the doors… I’m in a hurry remember?

Double set of next-door doors with attractive fanlights, Central London, March 2024

Beautiful door and porch and photobombing pigeon, Central London, March 2024

Steps - door - portico, Central London, March 2024 — Steps – door – portico, Central London, March 2024

Benjamin Disraeli lived in this house, Central London, March 2024

Austere doors with stone image of Mercury, Central London, March 2024

That’s yer lot this week. More from the same walk next time. Until then toodle pip.

If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.

by Scooj

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