7885. L Dub (92)

Turoe, L Dub, Bristol, June 2026
Turoe, L Dub, Bristol, June 2026

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
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.

7884. Greenbank (191)

Conrico, Greenbank, Bristol, June 2026
Conrico, Greenbank, Bristol, June 2026

It would seem that Conrico rather likes this particular spot, as the previous piece here was his fabulous two-panel cats work, featured here a few weeks back. Unfortunately the cats piece got tagged and didn’t last very long and he replaced it with this eye-catching portrait piece.

Conrico, Greenbank, Bristol, June 2026
Conrico, Greenbank, Bristol, June 2026

The portrait is more stylised than many of his pieces, both in terms of the rich flesh tones and the bold use of those tones to build depth through light and shadow. I like the proportions that Conrico has presented in this piece, with two thirds of the space occupied by a seascape, bringing more focus on the subject to the right. As ever, nicer work.

Conrico, Greenbank, Bristol, April 2026
Conrico, Greenbank, Bristol, April 2026

Autumn creep

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Quite snuck up on me

early fall of withered leaves

masking autumn’s start

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by Scooj

7883. Cumberland Basin

Solar, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, June 2026
Solar, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, June 2026

A quick jaunt back into my June archive revealed this beauty from Solar on the long wall at Cumberland Basin. I would offer my subjective view and say that Solar’s work this year has risen to the next level, and he is turning out some outstanding work.

Solar, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, June 2026
Solar, Cumberland Basin, Bristol, June 2026

Solar’s unusual and anti-style work is perversely becoming quite conventional, simply because he has established himself and made a mark. This is no bad thing, because he retains his identity and developing style. In this wonderfully fragmented piece, the outline is incomplete, and the fills drift way beyond the boundaries. A sense of order is maintained by the pink and magenta decorations that have stuck to the script and frame the piece beautifully. Cool work.

7882. New Stadium Road (63)

Mysto, New Stadium Road, Bristol, August 2026
Mysto, New Stadium Road, Bristol, August 2026

Although I haven’t seen all that many pieces by Mysto, I have seen enough to know that he has a certain style. This piece, however, appears to break from his normal convention and presents as something quite different.

 

For a start, his letters in this piece are far less disguised than usual, and easily readable. The letters are reasonably uniform and the midline picked out with a dark green colour, providing a little depth, alongside the drop shadow. The piece is rounded off with some ‘lazy’ bubble shapes around the outside. Nice and unexpected piece.

Greening

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With a little rain

a parched landscape gently greens

a slow recovery

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by Scooj

7881. Stillhouse Lane – Upfest 2026 (55)

Kid Crayon, Upfest 2026, Stillhouse Lane, Bristol, May 2026
Kid Crayon, Upfest 2026, Stillhouse Lane, Bristol, May 2026

A tiger playing a melodica… what could be more Upfest than that? This outstanding piece by Kid Crayon is all the more remarkable for the facts that it was painted in the rain, while the artist was suffering from food poisoning.

Kid Crayon, Upfest 2026, Stillhouse Lane, Bristol, May 2026
Kid Crayon, Upfest 2026, Stillhouse Lane, Bristol, May 2026

This is an unusual piece from Kid Crayon as it doesn’t really play into his usual stylistic tropes, and had it keen unsigned, it might have been difficult to identify him from the artwork alone. There is a nice balance in the piece, with the tiger in the foreground, with a chain and hoodie, while behind home is a nighttime urban landscape and bright full moon. Pure quality and class.

7880. West Street – Upfest 2026 (54)

Afonsoul, Upfest 2026, West Street, Bristol, August 2026
Afonsoul, Upfest 2026, West Street, Bristol, August 2026

At this year’s Upfest, there was a good balance between large feature walls and hoardings, to suit the needs of artists and their styles. Remarkably, the organisers managed to find a whole set of new walls around South Bristol, of which this is one.

 

Afonsoul, Upfest 2026, West Street, Bristol, August 2026
Afonsoul, Upfest 2026, West Street, Bristol, August 2026

I watched for a while as Afonsoul painted this piece, high up on the scaffolding, but could only admire the piece when I went back to visit in August when the scaffolding was down. It is a wonderful portrait piece and one in which you lose yourself in the artwork and forget that there are windows all the way through. A superb Upfest mural by the visiting Afonsoul.

7879. Greville Smyth Park – Upfest 2026 (53)

One of the most memorable moments of my wanderings over the three weeeks of Upfest was catching up with Bristol artist Conrico while he was painting this piece. He is a kind man and always up for a chat. It was a very hot day when I stopped by his piece, and he could see I was uncomfortable. He offered me his fine water spray and fan to cool myself down – a true gent. We also experienced a magnificent natural moment as one of the adjacent trees was shedding its fine and fluffy seeds, turning a hot spring day into a winter snowstorm, quite incredible.

Conrico, Upfest 2026, Greville Smyth Park, Bristol, May 2026
Conrico, Upfest 2026, Greville Smyth Park, Bristol, May 2026

The colourful portrait piece features a woman clasping something bright in her hands with plasma bolts emanating from them and a cheeky moth. I’m not too sure what the story is here. I love the way Conrico has capured the pattern on the woman’s jumper – brilliant. An interesting selection for an Upfest piece, but one that shows off his ‘paint brush’ style perfectly.

 

 

Typos

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My faty fingers

foorever fluffing keystrokes

double dou8ble check

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by Scooj

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