HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS 2025

At the core of her artistic expression lies a fascination with cats’ enigmatic nature, with a particular focus on their intricate and often mysterious triangle-shaped minds. This captivating element serves as the muse for her remarkable collection of works, where she skilfully combines the elegance of feline forms with the abstract allure of geometric patterns. The result is a visually striking array of pieces that seamlessly blend the organic grace of cats with the structured complexity of geometric shapes.

Mural minded is the brainchild of Yorkshire based artist Sam Porter, from a fine art, Sculpture printmaking and graffiti background Mural Minded was formed when Sam began to experiment. Utilising his disciplines in design, composition and technique, using walls as huge canvasses he began creating stunning visuals in a wide range of subject matters from wildlife to science concepts.

Mural minded painted this betta fish a couple of weeks ago for helpbristolshomeless to go in there charity auction in September, they do amazing things so if you can help to support them in any way and can make it to there auction to bid for this or any of the other works they have been donated every bit counts.

“I painted this Betta fish as it symbolises strength resilience good luck, and a will to fight through challenges which I thought was very relevant, i also wanted to do something in a similar palette to the piece I painted for them a couple of months ago as this was very well received by all. I hope to do more work like this again soon.”

I took inspiration from Tracy Emin’s unmade bed- I saw it at the Tate modern years ago. I photographed the scene in my bedroom and added the magpie.

Andy Council is a Bristol based artist who creates composite beasts made up of architectural landmarks and other recognisable elements. He often incorporates collaboration with communities in his process;identifying local and personal landmarks with people which are then included in the pieces. His work takes the form of illustration,painting and murals which can be seen across the UK and beyond. Bristol Zilla. The piece is based on Godzilla and made up of Bristol landmarks, specifically the Shipping Containers of the Help Bristol’s Homeless project and nearby landmarks – colourful houses of Totterdown and Temple Meads Station. The trains on the creature back have graffiti on them, names of some of my friends within the Street Art scene in Bristol who are no longer with us.

This piece (“Soul Sanctuary”) is based on Bex’s mural from the HBH paint festival. A raccoon, cocooned in the branches of a blossoming tree, hoping to convey a sense of sanctuary and security. The raccoon, a symbol of resilience and adaptability, often known to be resourceful and creative in the places they find for their homes, reflects on the amazing job HBH do in creating a beautiful, welcoming and tranquil space for homeless people in Bristol.

Bex Glover is a contemporary Bristol-based artist and commercial illustrator, creating abstract, nature-inspired artwork with a distinctive urban aesthetic. Her work explores the delicate connections and interactions within our ever-changing natural world, depicting a world where rural and urban landscapes merge and wildlife adapts to a shifting, fluid terrain. She is known for her large wildlife murals and animal characters, including her iconic foxes which can be found on numerous walls around the UK.

Jenks, a street artist who paints anything and everything he can in South Wales, mainly street art murals, commissioned work and at festivals. Likes to challenge himself with all sorts of varied subject matter. Committed to making the world a more colourful place.

This piece is a replica piece that I painted over two containers back in June in the first help the homeless art festival. Thought it would be nice for someone to have an original of that piece. It was painted with a mixture of spraycans and paint markers.

Stuart Mitchell is a multimedia artist and producer working in painting, printmaking, photography, animation, music and sound production from his studio near Bristol. His visual work is often themed around ritual, altered states and subconscious imagery combined to produce, often ambiguous, works of imagination.

Mitchell studied BA / BSc Digital Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth has worked with public arts producers, galleries, museums, film and animation festivals, music festivals, theatre companies, visual artists, performance artists and musicians on a wide array of creative projects whilst also developing his own art and music. His work has been exhibited in galleries. art fairs and used in live performances in the UK, Europe and USA.

“It’s a portrait created from a memory of a person I met at a New York gallery dressed in a bear suit, the meaning is open to the viewers own interpretation”

Cheo is one of Bristol’s most well known street artists who began drawing and painting graffiti characters in the mid 1980’s. With a very recognisable cartoon style that has been inspired by the comic book characters of Vaughn Bode. His trademark is a cute bumble bee character which can be seen on most of Cheo’s pieces, from sketches, colour marker illustrations and wall art.

Cheo is one of Bristol’s most well known street artists who began drawing and painting graffiti characters in the mid 1980’s. With a very recognisable cartoon style that has been inspired by the comic book characters of Vaughn Bode. His trademark is a cute bumble bee character which can be seen on most of Cheo’s pieces, from sketches, colour marker illustrations and wall art.

Hidden Gallery, located in Bristol’s Clifton Arcade, showcases original works by world-renowned artists including Picasso, Chagall and Hockney. Since 2016, it has become a trusted destination for collectors and first-time buyers alike. Passionate about sharing great art with all, Hidden is proud to support community initiatives such as this auction.

These works were published as part of a special edition of the French portfolio Verve. Published in 1958, ‘Dernieres Oeuvres de Matisse’, also known as Verve 35/36, was intended as a celebration of the works Matisse had produced in his final years. It included forty lithographs based on his iconic cut-outs and a selection of heliogravure reproductions of Matisse’s then-recent black and white drawings.

Hidden Gallery, located in Bristol’s Clifton Arcade, showcases original works by world-renowned artists including Picasso, Chagall and Hockney. Since 2016, it has become a trusted destination for collectors and first-time buyers alike. Passionate about sharing great art with all, Hidden is proud to support community initiatives such as this auction.

These works were published as part of a special edition of the French portfolio Verve. Published in 1958, ‘Dernieres Oeuvres de Matisse’, also known as Verve 35/36, was intended as a celebration of the works Matisse had produced in his final years. It included forty lithographs based on his iconic cut-outs and a selection of heliogravure reproductions of Matisse’s then-recent black and white drawings.

DFTE is an anonymous Bristol-based street artist known for creating positive and philosophical text-based murals. The name stands for “Don’t Feed The Ego,” a central theme in their work. Their street art career began with handwritten reminders around their own house, which eventually evolved into large-scale public art to spread positive messages to the community.

DFTE is an anonymous Bristol-based street artist known for creating positive and philosophical text-based murals. The name stands for “Don’t Feed The Ego,” a central theme in their work. Their street art career began with handwritten reminders around their own house, which eventually evolved into large-scale public art to spread positive messages to the community.

A national superstar of the 1970s and among the club’s most famous No.7s, Kevin Keegan left an indelible mark during his six seasons as a Liverpool forward.

During Glenn Hoddle’s international career, Hoddle scored 8 goals in 53 appearances for his country.

No 1 of edition of 25. Cheba is a prominent British street artist and abstract painter, widely recognised as a key figure in Bristol’s thriving street art culture. Born and raised in Bristol, England – a city renowned as a global hub for urban art – Cheba emerged in the early 2000s as a pioneering force within the genre. His work, characterised by vibrant cosmic themes and bold abstraction, bridging the raw energy of street art with the dynamic complexity of contemporary abstract painting, earning him international acclaim.

Jimmer Willmott is a Bristol-based pop surrealist painter. His work combines surrealism, pop culture and social commentary. In the last five years Jimmer has been painting alphabetti spaghetti mostly with donut cops on canvas predominantly and now this starting to spill into his street art!

C215 is a French street artist, his work has been recognised globally, being recognised for his contributions to the arts, recently being awarded ‘The knight of the french order of arts and letters’

Guitar Girl takes its name and theme from a blend of influences—global events of 2024 and the poignant imagery in Banksy’s Soldier and Boy with Flower. The work contrasts the innocence and vulnerability of a young child with the power and beauty of artistic expression, here symbolized by the guitar. Throughout history, art and music have served as timeless tools of protest, giving voice to those who are often silenced. In this piece, the child’s flak jacket—emblazoned with the words HEAR ME—becomes a stark call for attention, underscoring the truth that youth are among the most vulnerable and yet the least heard.

SC has lived in multiple countries since childhood. US-Germany – Saudi Arabia and the UK. Child to a British mother and US Army father. Currently bouncing between Kent and Los Angeles looking for inspiration. Drawing on my experiences living internationally and being inspired by the works of Blek leRat, Banksy, Punk Rock, Political and humanity.

I have developed my practice over the past 25 years using predominantly animal imagery as a vehicle to explore themes of transformation, duality, power and vulnerability. Storytelling, symbolism and metaphor play a strong role in my work and my visual language expresses both a personal and archetypal mythology.

My work often morphs the human figure with animal, creating mythological creatures and fictional compositions. My work is held in private collections across Europe, UK, USA, Canada, South America, Asia and Australia. It is held in the permanent collections of the following three Museums:

• • FAMM (Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins), France (a museum dedicated to celebrating women in the arts)
  • New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art, MA, USA.
  • Muskegon Museum of Art, MI, USA.

Three of my bronze ‘Minotaur’ sculptures are currently on-loan to the Commune of Mougins, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, for public exhibition at the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Vie in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso and I will be installing a further 27 sculptures throughout the village for Mougins Monumental for the duration of 2026.

The title ‘the petal repairer’ was actually a title my dad came up with, he died in 2012, he was also an artist and we were very close, I discovered his title on an unfinished image he had started, I decided to use it to make a sculpture, for me it expresses many poetic and emotive ideas around fragility – human fragility or the fragility of a broken flower and the very human wish to repair something precious and delicate.

Andrew Burns Colwill was born in Clifton and has led a colourful life which he has successfully portrayed on canvas. His work is subtle, reflective, not obvious – a viewer has to work at his painting and is rewarded with hidden insights, environmental, political and social commentary and humour.

On the surface a comfortable portrait of two Snow Leopards, but as is so common with Andy’s work a dark message lingers behind, Bullet holes in the trees, warm brown colours instead of the cold blue grey colours normal to the ice covered Tibetan mountains, a hint to global warming for an already endangered species.

Quaye is a commercial artist with over 25 years experience. He began as a graphic designer in the 80s, producing screen-printed designs for clothing. By the 90s he was specialising in custom freehand airbrushing; anything from motorcycles and crash helmets to murals and backdrops. Always keen to develop his skills further, he studied the arts of trompe l’oeil, marbling, graining, colour washing and traditional sign-writing. His mixed-media artwork, sign-painting and murals incorporate many of these techniques to unique and distinctive effect.

Luke Palmer (FdA, BA, PGCE) is an artist, photographer, lecturer and DJ from Bristol, England, with a background in street art and graffiti spanning back to the mid-1990s. Using the alias Acerone he has exhibited his work publicly on walls across the South West, and in addition to multiple group exhibitions, has had three solo shows; ‘Photographiti’ and ‘Hero’s Journey’ (Bristol, 2010/2011), and ‘Where is Iron John?’ (London, 2013).

Since leaving a twelve-year career in the youth education sector in 2018, he has worked as a freelance mural artist, a therapeutic arts practitioner at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, and launched Collaborative Painting UK; a social enterprise using art and creativity to help businesses and community groups foster new forms of communication that improve mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.

Guy Denning (born 1965, North Somerset, UK) is a self-taught British artist whose work fuses figurative painting, street art, and political commentary. Rejected from art schools in the 1980s, he pursued his craft independently while studying Art History with The Open University. In 2007, he moved to Brittany, France, to focus entirely on his practice. Denning’s paintings and drawings—marked by expressive brushwork, layered media, and raw surfaces—address themes of war, identity, injustice, and resilience. Exhibited widely across Europe and the US, his work is held in both public and private collections, earning him recognition as a powerful contemporary voice.

“The piece you’ve got was a preparatory work for a painting I later made as a response to the Brexit debacle (which mightily ballsed up my life in France). It’s the imagined depiction of the mythical goddess Europa and her expression is the reaction to the UK contemporary political direction.”

Mason Storm did not follow the traditional route into art and his training and artistic education in painting, sculpture ceramics and photography came from as he puts it “hanging around with artists from an early age at a local youth centre”, these artists however include some of the UK’s most celebrated, from the world’s best art schools including the Royal Academy, Royal College and Central St.Martins.

Masons work is at times as provocative as it is beautiful, however just like his hero Caravaggio the work has hidden elements in which the viewer is invited to find and decipher, whether it’s a socio-political statement or an outright joke.

“Lots and lots of people went on the mad NFT craze when it came out, just producing rubbish pictures and selling them all a bit of a scam, this painting is of one of the things that was created as an NFT and sold online, so I made it in physical form, hence not an NFT. I did several of them. I only have this one and one other left'”

This artist is one of the most notorious graffiti writers in UK history to emerge out of the 80s Bristol scene. Painting alongside 3D and Banksy, coming 2nd in the 1989 World Street Art Championships, the Kingpin was arrested as the head of 72 other writers in the UK’s largest ever Graffiti bust, Operation Anderson. Inkie has since worked as head of design for SEGA, Xbox, and currently resides in Jade Jaggers west London studio. As in-house artist and designer for prints, illustrations, clothing and with his trademark beauty on large-scale pieces, the globally respected artist, whose diverse inspirations collect Mayan architecture, William Morris, Alfons Mucha and Islamic geometry, has exhibited worldwide, been denounced by The Daily Mail and simultaneously lauded by The Times, his art published in the books Bankys Bristol, Children of the Can, Graffiti World and magazines Graphotism and Dazed & Confused

Born in Wales in 1972 Gareth Lye has been engaged in drawing, painting and making things all his life. He was attracted from an early age to work which combined thoughtful approach with concise action.

Formal education took the path of a Foundation Course in Art & Design at Swansea Institute 1992. HND in Graphic Information Design in Harrow 1995. HND & BA(Hons) Architectural Stained Glass in Swansea Institute 2002.

From 2002-13 Gareth balanced his time between sub-contracting to artists & studios in the UK to carry out research, design, fabrication & installation of large scale private, public & sculptural commissions in glass. As well as regularly exhibiting paintings and completing many stained glass commissions.

He moved to Saint Ives in Cornwall in 2014 to concentrate solely on painting & wood carving, working to commission and selling work independently. And exhibiting as a member of the Saint Ives Society of Artists at The Mariner’s Gallery from 2016-2021, where for a very brief time he became a Director in 2017.

He returned to South Wales in 2021. Where he works from an attic studio overlooking Swansea Bay. And has developed a highly intricate style of figurative painting, rich in autobiographical symbolism.

Jim Starr’s work spans Painting, Illustration and Print Making.

He completed a foundation at Chelsea College of Art and a degree at Kingston University.

He has exhibited In London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Palm Beach, Venice, Rome, Singapore, Tokyo and Chengdu Museum, China with BVLGARI.

He has work in private collections worldwide and his most recent solo show was ‘AVIFAUNA’ at the Coningsby Gallery, London. (October 2020)

Having been based in London and Bristol he now lives and works on Exmoor in North Devon.

The paintings by Mr. (Duncan) Jago are like hurricanes of color and brushstrokes. His artistic career began with his intense interest in graffiti which led him to study illustration in Bristol. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Mr. Jago’s works have progressively developed toward abstraction, losing any reference to the form. Instead, he employs both acrylic and spray paint on large canvases to render nonrepresentational scenes that give the impression of staring into space and being able to see the entire light spectrum. With vibrant colors saturating drips, bursts, and evocative strokes, Mr. Jago elevates his materials beyond the grass roots aesthetic associated with street art.

Stuart Mitchell is a multimedia artist and producer working in painting, printmaking, photography, animation, music and sound production from his studio near Bristol. His visual work is often themed around ritual, altered states and subconscious imagery combined to produce, often ambiguous, works of imagination.

Mitchell studied BA / BSc Digital Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth has worked with public arts producers, galleries, museums, film and animation festivals, music festivals, theatre companies, visual artists, performance artists and musicians on a wide array of creative projects whilst also developing his own art and music. His work has been exhibited in galleries. art fairs and used in live performances in the UK, Europe and USA.

The image derived from a photograph of ‘Hugo’ the hang gliding pug. Hugo belonged to our good friend, New York gallerist and hang gliding enthusiast, Bertrand Delacroix. Whenever Bertrand went hang gliding Hugo was so determined to be with him that he would nearly jump off the cliff chasing the hang glider. Eventually Bertrand had a pug harness, helmet and goggles made so that Hugo could go flying with him.

Art4fans piece commissioned by Neil Palmer, Chris Bradfield, Adrian Ashby. Original wall painted by Jody and Inkie.

1 out of 12 exclusive prints. It will be signed by Joe Jordan, Scott Murray, Steve Cottrell, Alan Dicks, Paul Cheesley. ‘Pride of the West’ is a look back at the history of Bristol City over more than a hundred years. Impossible to include all highlights over that time, this mural celebrates moments when the unexpected became reality. The timeline begins with the clubs dramatic achievement in reaching the FA Cup Final in 1909

This isn’t just decoration. It’s about identity. It’s about making sure that every fan, young or old, who walks by the mural wall feels connected to something bigger — something rooted, something proud. It’s about storytelling — capturing the soul of the club in colour, texture, and expression.

From a practical standpoint, the mural is being designed in collaboration with historians, and most importantly — supporters. We built this piece by the community and for the community.

A landmark piece for all supporters to enjoy — a photo stop, a memory trigger, a source of pride. A space where supporters can point and say, “That’s my club… this is our story.”

We are grateful to our contributors for their amazing support enabling us to bring this vision to life. Together, hopefully we have given some of our legends a wall worthy of their legacy — and have given future generations a reason to stand a little taller when they say,

“I’m City Till I die.”

Giles Barwick moved to Bristol in his 20s and studied Graphic Design; following a short course at St Ives School of Art he applied to the University of West of England (UWE) to study Fine Art. It was here he was awarded the “Innes Wilken Art in Architecture”” prize. Since gaining his BA, Giles has continued to develop his innovative techniques and shrewd use of colours within his work.

This artist is one of the most notorious graffiti writers in UK history to emerge out of the 80s Bristol scene. Painting alongside 3D and Banksy, coming 2nd in the 1989 World Street Art Championships, the Kingpin was arrested as the head of 72 other writers in the UK’s largest ever Graffiti bust, Operation Anderson. Inkie has since worked as head of design for SEGA, Xbox, and currently resides in Jade Jaggers west London studio. As in-house artist and designer for prints, illustrations, clothing and with his trademark beauty on large-scale pieces, the globally respected artist, whose diverse inspirations collect Mayan architecture, William Morris, Alfons Mucha and Islamic geometry, has exhibited worldwide, been denounced by The Daily Mail and simultaneously lauded by The Times, his art published in the books Bankys Bristol, Children of the Can, Graffiti World and magazines Graphotism and Dazed & Confused