STREET ART – Roa in Panama City

After whizzing past this location onroute to the Panama Canal and other locations – it seemed our hotel based in Panama City wasn’t actually THAT far away from what looked like an amazing piece of street art each time we passed (but too quickly to take any photos though!) So armed with my camera and […]

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Street Art – Jo¥ for Empty Walls Festival

The first Empty Walls festival was held throughout the Cathays and Roath parts of Cardiff in 2013. The event attracted 12 local and international artists to transform the Capital’s streets to bring colour, culture and vibrancy to the city. A whole range of artists painted the City including Phlegm, Colour Doomed, Run, 3Dom and Helen […]

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STREET ART – Phlegm #1 in Cardiff

Born in North Wales but now residing in Sheffield, Phlegm is a cartoonist and illustrator known for his self-published comics and amazing graffiti and street art. Phlegm continually seems to be travelling all around the world spreading his huge pieces featuring large, quirky creatures on buildings, vehicles, structures and derelict areas throughout the planet! And […]

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STREET ART – Helen Bur at The Empty Walls festival

Helen Bur is no stranger to Cardiff as she got her Fine Art degree at the Cardiff School of Art but you may not have already seen some of her work around Cardiff. Check out this link to see some photos of Helen’s previous work around The Cardiff Fashion Quarter:- https://djleekee.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/street-art-womanby-street/ You definately cannot miss […]

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STREET ART-3dom of the City

Hailing from our cousins over the water, 3dom’s street art is usually found around the streets of Bristol and beyond. 3dom is an illustrator and artist who paints cartoons, mixed with semiology and surrealism which are vibrant, provocative and deeply personal. Luckily now he has arrived in Cardiff to take part in the Empty Walls […]

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AUTUMN is on it’s way…. (Papa’s got a brand new wig)

Earlier in the year this fantastic piece of Street Art by Rmer1 really caught my attention and evenmoreso with the plant growing over the top of the roof! It was only another walk down the Elm Street lanes later in the year that I realised that Autumn was definately on it’s way…. This piece of […]

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STREET ART – Portuguese poet

Paying tribute to Fernando Pessoa – a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. Perfectly sited on a wall just off North Street in Bedminster this piece of street art […]

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STREET ART – Big pink pussy in Radyr

A leisurely bike ride along the ‘Taff Trail’, which winds itself alongside the River Taff from Cardiff Bay all the way upto Brecon, where there is usually some wildlife, historic buildings and structures along this ever popular route to enjoy. Recently artwork has been added to numerous subways and tunnels but my favourite piece is […]

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VIDEO – Jamie Roberts plays with The Manic Street Preachers

Wales and Lions player Jamie Roberts has taken to the stage in Australia and played guitar with the Manic Street Preachers at their gig in the Festival Hall, Melbourne. Jamie Roberts hasn’t featured in Warren Gatland’s Lions side since he injured his hamstring during the 47-17 win over New South Wales Waratahs a fortnight ago […]

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STREET ART – Stokes Croft, Bristol.

After a fleeting visit to the demolition of the previous See No Evil streets around Nelson Street (full blog post here) it was time for an even quicker tour around the main street of Bristol’s Stokes Croft area to discover what delights were ready to greet me around every corner. One of the first properly […]

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STREET ART – See No Evil in Bristol

As a rather large City in close proximity to Cardiff I have visited the City of Bristol on many occasions but have never discovered the true delights of the street art on display…until now! Having previously visited the amazing work in Stokes Croft and over in Bedminster with the Upfest – I was surprised to […]

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STREET ART – Birdseed in Manchester

A rapid walk through Manchester and an attempt to get quickly from Media City UK to Piccadilly resulted in getting four different trams, getting the last train back to Cardiff and getting home at 2am. (boy did I sleep that night!) Having not visited Manchester in recent years it was amazing to see how much […]

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STREET ART – Lembo hits Riverside

After many of Lembo’s colourful pussy cats popped up around Roath, Cathays and even one near Radyr – they have now taken a well deserved trip to the western side of Cardiff and brightened up the Riverside area of the city. A boring green facility box located next to the old Wells public house has […]

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STREET ART – Marbles by Colour Doomed

Housed between Cathay’s City Road and Richmond Road is a lane that hasn’t been gated off yet and houses many types of street art across the array of brick walls and garage doors along it. Most of it has been throw ups, stencils and giant tags but nothing on such a large scale as this… […]

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STREET ART – Colour Doomed at the Boiler House

From the very talented Colour Doomed and a collaboration at The BoilerHouse in Llandaf North, Cardiff. Fantastic work m8!

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