6453. Redcliffe Way

Peggy, Redcliffe Way, Bristol, October 2024
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, Redcliffe Way, Bristol, October 2024
Peggy, Redcliffe Way, Bristol, October 2024

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.

Peggy, Redcliffe Way, Bristol, October 2024
Peggy, Redcliffe Way, Bristol, October 2024

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.

4060. Dean Lane skate park (437)

Regular readers of Natural Adventures will know that I am really enjoying the work of Maybe . His small murals are improving all the time and he is starting to make his mark in spots all over Bristol, spreading out from his ‘safe space’ under Brunel Way.

Maybe, Dean Lane, Bristol, November 2021
Maybe, Dean Lane, Bristol, November 2021

This first piece on a ramp at Dean Lane skate park might just be my favourite yet from Maybe. The colours are superb, and the blends from dark to light in each colour tone are exceptional. Calm and pleasing, it has the appearance of an Eastern European children’s cartoon that were so much a thing in the 1970s and 1980s about it.

Maybe, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2021
Maybe, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2021

The other two pieces in Dean Lane are small Yin and Yang badges composed of interlocking faces, which is the ‘trademark’ of Maybe. Some really great creative stuff here, and he just keeps on producing.

Maybe, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2021
Maybe, Dean Lane, Bristol, October 2021

3112. M32 roundabout J3 (247)

It is always nice to see a new piece from Rapt and I have become rather fond of his little motifs that he incorporates alongside his letters. In this piece he has painted a small yin-yang to the right of the letters that provides extra interest.

Rapt, M32 roundabout, Bristol, July 2020
Rapt, M32 roundabout, Bristol, July 2020

The letters are nicely done with three horizontal layers of shading fill in varying hues of pink. Rapt has also included some nice little clusters of coloured circles and stars that I think works really well and is quite an original decoration. A fine piece of work.