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Small wood creation
dense planting of mixed species
acceleration
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by Scooj
Tag: Wood
6364. Cheltenham 2024 (4)
I took these pictures at this year’s Cheltenham festival, although the first image featuring an extraordinary piece by Smug One is from the Cheltenham Paint Festival 2023. I managed to catch up with Smug One as he was finishing off this stag beetle piece “Monarch of the End”, but rain was forecast and he was rather agitated that he might not be able to complete it before it came. I often present Cheltenham pieces a year late, because many are incomplete at the time of my visiting the festival, and I tend to only visit once a year. This is a magnificent piece.
I don’t know Benzi Brofman at all, but I rather like this irreverent take on family life with the line “Being normal is boring”. The sentiment of the picture taps into the subversive nature of street art and I rather like it.
I also don’t know the French? artist LPVDA but his Instagram feed is fascinating. It looks like he creates his work using an angle grinder, etching out images on wooden ‘canvases’. The effect is stunning and it is amazing how he achieves depth and tone just by altering the depth of his grinding.
All three pieces are wonderful.
1624. High Street
The first time I saw anything by Dabuten Tronko was round about the time of Upfest 2017 and I immediately liked his deconstructed rowing boats. At Upfest, artists tend to come and then go and if you get lucky they come the following year. Well I’m not sure if he planned on being at Upfest 2018, but he did come to Bristol in June and left two fine pieces of which this is the first.
There is something rather compelling about the theme he often chooses for his wall work, with a focus on small wooden rowing boats in a state of disassembly. I wonder if this is symbolic of anything in particular or an unconscious outpouring, but I expect there is quite a lot that lies beneath the surface of this work.
Note the Whysayit YSAE tag at the top of the piece.
Natural adventures 