The Hass with Paul Monsters – Al’s Tikka Grill, Ashton Road

The Hass with Paul Monsters – Al’s Tikka Grill, Ashton Road

 Collaboration between The Hass aka Hasam Kamil and Paul Monsters covering the side of Al’s Tikka Grill on Ashton Road. The portrait in the artwork is of Don Piper, a music producer. According to Kamil “The geometric shapes and abstractions that explode outwards across the wall are a visual representation of beats, rhythms and riffs morphing together to create something unseen /unheard” ⠀⠀

Paul Monsters has collaborated on this piece on Ashton Road. His geometric patterns break up the artwork. According to the Hass it “breaks up the artwork creating an interesting composition that ties in with the often sporadic and experimental music that Don Piper produces”

The collaboration is painted on two sides of a building on Ashton Road, not far away from the Ashton Gate football stadium. The portrait, which looks a little bit like a self-portrait, is by The Hass, but the way it blends into the geometric patterns of Paul Monsters is what makes this a proper collaboration in my eyes.

The Hass is a super-talented artist who writes under another name for his graffiti pieces. The portrait has such amazing depth, with perfect use of different tones and shading to bring out the features and highlight all the wrinkles and contours of the face. A masterful piece of wall art.

It is quite unusual to see this colour combination used in the geometric work of Paul Monsters. More often he works with yellows, greens, browns, oranges and purples, but here he has gone for a rather more subtle colour palette which works really well on this particular space

I am not too sure about the significance of the owl, but The Hass has absolutely smashed it. The owl appears to be wearing a little red cap, shared by the self-portrait, and I wonder if The Hass is the owl. Who knows? I’ll have to ask him next time I see him.

All in all, another outstanding wall in this summer series. We citizens of Bristol are a lucky bunch really

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St pauls carnival Bristol

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Horse, by Andy Council Bristol

The West Street Horse, by Andy Council

The West Street Horse, by Andy Council. Originally painted for Upfest in 2013, when Ashton Gate was redeveloped, he went back and changed the horse's belly to update the image of the stadium

You can find other paint by Mr Council in numerous locations including North Street, Bedminster, The Oxford pub in Totterdown and some of his most recent work at Ashton Gate alongside Inkie and Voyder

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Stinkfish street art stokes Croft Bristol

Stinkfish street art stokes Croft Bristol

 

This magnificent piece, by Stinkfish, is arguably the most iconic piece of street art in Bristol. This is the second appearance of this mural in Natural Adventures, but a totally legitimate one. The original was painted by Stinkfish some years ago, and at the back end of last year the artist was brought back to the city to refresh this and another of his fine works in Mina Road, St Werburghs.

The result of this refresh is absolutely stunning, bringing the old piece back to life and restoring a sense of pride in this extraordinary wall. Some may feel that restoring a piece goes a bit against the grain of the lifecycle of street art, but I am not amongst them. In this piece not only has Stinkfish refreshed the black and yellow elements, but he has embellished the piece with his trademark patterns that add so much more to the whole.

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Serpe Sabek street art mural Bristol

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Snake street art mural Bristol 

Sabek – The Rising Sun, Ashton Road – 

‘Serpe’ is the colourful creation from Sabek. It shows a flaming serpent with its fangs out seemingly about the pounce.

 

military fatigues riding a motorcycle Bristol

 Belgian artist Derm’s mural on the Coopers Arms shows a character in military fatigues riding a motorcycle. His work is often based around military imagery

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hummingbirds Sian Storey street art Bristol

hummingbirds Sian Storey street art Bristol

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Hummingbirds and flowers on the Pantiles from Sian Storey

Sian Storey – The Pantile, off West Street – 

An oasis in the city from Basingstoke artist Sian Storey. Her hummingbirds floating against a backdrop of flowers on the side of the Pantile just off from West Street

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