They’re at it again. Although it took Dibz and Fade a little time to warm uop this year, once they got going they have been fairly relentless all summer long. This is just a nice study in wildstyle graffiti writing on one of their favourite walls.
Fade and Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, August 2026
The pair have gone for a pink theme, although when I first saw the collaboration, my first thought was Liquorice Allsorts and I can’t unthink it. This is a great example of technical graffiti writing executed to the highest standard. Exactly as I’d expect from these two.
The Cat Came Back, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2026
Oh how good is it to see this third recent piece by The Cat Came Back? Sadly though, I haven’t seen any more from the artist since I photographed this last month. In this fine combination piece, the artist shows off his considerable writing skills alongside a beautiful cat girl portrait.
The Cat Came Back, St Werburghs, Bristol, August 2026
Where has The Cat Came Back been all this time I wonder, and are these pieces a flash in the pan or something to look forward to seeing regularly? The letters spell out Jones, which I am guessing is the artist’s surname. Great letters shapes and fills. The portrait is really well painted and perfectly proportioned. The piece is bold too, set on a black background. Lots to like here.
Roma has settled into a rather nice rhythm of painting and is also settling into a fairly consistent letter style. Her distinctive overlapping letters are quite pointy, although she has painted smoother letters in the past, and her ‘O’ and ‘A’ have an additional embellishment at the top.
Roma, M32 roundabout, Bristol, August 2026
In this piece she has chosen to paint over a particularly busy piece – by Biers – which does distract a little from her own work. Perhaps a bit more background would help to delineate her work from the existing work of others. I know that this is a stylistic approach used by many writers, but my view would be to consider the wall, not only the letters. The blended fill and horizontal stripe of stars is fabulous and well executed. Upwards and onwards.
Photographing this piece by Bloem, even with the shadows cast across it was a smart move, because the next time I visited to get some better pictures, it had been over-painted – which was a great pity. I have noticed that quite often, fresh pieces get painted over not because of any vindictive mission on the part of another artist, but because they genuinely have no idea how long a piece might have been on a wall for. People like me, who visit spots regularly have a much better idea of what is new and what is old.
Bloem, M32 roundabout, Bristol, August 2026
Bloem’s work is really quite exceptional. She has in a relatively short space of time learned her craft and clearly has a great gift for spray painting walls. The gift is twofold though, her can-control is one thing, but combined her worderfully creative mind allows her to paint her outstanding artwork with confidence and ease. These letters, spelling BLOEM, are painted in her favoured blue tones and are beautifully designed and decorated. Another triumph from Bloem. If only the sun had drifted behind a cloud, just for a minute.
No fuss, no bother. What you see is what you get from this throw up piece by Butch. There is no pretension from this graffiti writing, simply his skeleton format, without frills. Often a piece like this would struggle to make the cut for Natural Adventures, but I like his work and include it when I can.
Butch, Purdown, Bristol, August 2026
I’ll be popping up to Purdown this morning for a dog walk, it is one of the few graffiti spots where both the dog and I get what we each need from a walk. The yellow and black letters overlapping from the left reflect the parcherd grass and contrast with the wide dramatic sky. A nice straightforward piece.
I like to publish as many pieces by Werm as I can, because it has been an amazing privilege to be able to chart his journey since his arrival on the Bristol street art scene. Over the years, he has navigated his way through various styles, learned a lot and always looked to adapt and improve, to the point now where we see a mature and confident graffiti writer who seems to be enjoying his craft.
Werm, Dean Lane, Bristol, August 2026
This is an amazing piece, bursting with colour and energy. The letters themselves are incredibly clean and tight, close to perfection, but I think the thing thart brings the whole alive is the contrasting spotty background, introducing a whole different colour regime and softer edges counteracting the sharpness in his letters. A great piece of graffiti writing from Werm.
Another classic piece from Nice One, who, it has to be said has generally had quite a quiet few months painting on the streets. It can be hard to know sometimes what impacts on the peaks and troughs in activity from different artists, and one can only hope it is for good reasons.
Nice One, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, August 2026
This combnination piece cleanly separates a superb portrait sketch from the beautifully picked out and typical letters ‘Nice One’. The portrait piece resembles a bust or statue and the sketch-like quality of the lined feels like this piece has been directly lifted out of an artist’s workbook. To create that greyscale pencil drawing look at this scale using spray paints is fantastically skillful and perfectly executed by Nice One. Outstanding.
About 20 years ago I bought a Nike sweatshirt which didn’t have the tick logo, just the word Nike, and it was the exact same colours as the letter fills in this piece by Mage. This piece reminds me of that top, which I was very fond of, and I can’t unsee it in this piece.
Mage, M32 Cycle path, Bristol, August 2026
Sometimes Mage’s execution can look a little rushed, but not in this piece, everything is absolutely on-point. The clean dynamic two-colour fill is attraxctively presented, and supported with a whuite drop shadow and fine black border. Some greeny-yellow dusting creates an interface between the letters and the former occupant of this spot. I am not too sure about the colour selection of this, but I am splitting hairs a bit. A very nice tidy piece of writing from Mage.
Minto has had a great summer, creating some truly memorable pieces around Bristol, and of such a high quality too. His distinctive style has been carried through all of them and this is no exception.
Minto, M32 roundabout, July 2026
The heavily disguised letters, spelling, of course, MINTO, are beautifully embellished with swirls, patterns, lines and colour, but all seemingly beautifully balanced and interconnected. Midway through, there is the inclusion of a small character, wearing a helmet with goggles and smoking a cigarette. Such mini-characters often organically emerge fom Minto’s work, augmenting the busy mix. Another very nice piece from the artist.
If you ever want to get a feel for wildstyle graffiti wrtiting at its best, you don’t need to go much further than the L Dub spot, which at any one time will host several superb examples, which tend to be left very much alone by taggers, who rarely venture to such out of the way places.
Turoe, L Dub, Bristol, June 2026
This gorgeous piece by Turoe is a great example opf what I’m talking about. His elaborate letters are perfectly filled with a small but strong red drop shadow and clean white border. There is a lilac cloudy background which frames the writing nicely. Simply classy.
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