7615. Stapleton Road

Tera, Stapleton Road, Bristol, April 2026
Tera, Stapleton Road, Bristol, April 2026

One of the hazards of photographing street art is the prevailing light conditions, which present all sorts of problems, the trickiest being shadows cast across the subject of the shot. Unfortunately, the eye of heaven was not kind to me when I visited this magnificent X-Men piece by Tera.

Tera, Stapleton Road, Bristol, April 2026
Tera, Stapleton Road, Bristol, April 2026

This was part of a collaboration with SPZero76 and Kid Crayon, featuring the film franchise, and Tera decided to go with a Wolverine character. The character is brilliantly portrayed, with tons of movement and menace conveyed in this piece. I particularly like the smoking cigar. A very nice piece by Tera, and a little different from his usual ghoulish fare.

7588. Stapleton Road

Kid Crayon, Stapleton Road, Bristol, March 2026
Kid Crayon, Stapleton Road, Bristol, March 2026

This spring has seen a surge of pieces by Kid Crayon, which from my perspective is always very welcome indeed. This X-Men piece was painted as part of a collaborative wall with SPZero76 and Tera.

Kid Crayon, Stapleton Road, Bristol, March 2026
Kid Crayon, Stapleton Road, Bristol, March 2026

This combination piece has a slightly different look from the curvy writing we are used to seeing from Kid Crayon who has adapted his style a little to fit with an X-Men appearance, which he has wholly bought into, so much so that he has dropped his signature floating crayon. The character is Cyclops, with his destructive laser eyes. Fun stuff.

7584. Stapleton Road

SPZero76, Stapleton Road, Bristol, March 2026
SPZero76, Stapleton Road, Bristol, March 2026

A week or two back there was an EAT/DoOrDie paint jam on Stapleton Road, alongside the M32 motorway, with an X-Men theme. This piece, by SPZero76 is one of the three painted that day.SPZero76 has a special place in Natural Adventures because he was one of the first regular artists that I photographed and wrote about ten years ago. Although he used to paint more often then, his pieces are always outstanding.

SPZero76, Stapleton Road, Bristol, March 2026
SPZero76, Stapleton Road, Bristol, March 2026

The raccoons, creatures that appear in most of SPZero76’s cartoon-style work, are playing out the parts of Wolverine with its claw hand and Cyclops, who is wearing 3D specs instead of his special visor – a nice twist. An incredible scene unfolds in such illustrative detail. This is a truly fabulous piece of cartoon character street art.