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Bristol-based street artist Jody has been painting Bristol's streets since 1987 and has painted along with other famous local artists, such as Banksy, Cheo, and Inkie. Jody's work primarily features female subjects in highly emotive states and designed to stop visitors in their tracks to examine the work. I recently visited Bristol and discovered one of Jody's murals for Upfest2017 in the Bedminster area of Bristol, just off North Street. It features a woman with a large flower in her hair and while silhouettes of birds in the foreground.

For more information about Jody's work on this blog, please have a look at the below links:

Jody Paints "Little Gold Riding Hood" for Upfest 2018

The Circleville Pumpkin Show is an annual event that takes place in mid-October in Ohio each year and attracts over 300,000 people each year to celebrate everything pumpkin. Part of its success is that the event is free to visit, and the attendance to this small Ohio town over the four days in mid-October is outstanding. Despite growing up in Ohio, I had never been to the Circleville Pumpkin Show due to autumn being a busy harvest season for my family; it is something that I had always wanted to do. This year, I finally got to attend my first ever Circleville Pumpkin Show (now in its 112th year).

The very first ever Circleville Pumpkin Show was held in 1903, and it was a small harvest festival with decorated pumpkins and jack-o'-lanterns. This year's show was the 112th because the show was not held for three years around the World Wars. 

The pumpkin show runs from Wednesday to Saturday each year. I attended on the Wednesday, which is the first day of the event. On the Wednesday, the show kicks off with the pumpkin weighing. This is to determine which pumpkin is the largest/heaviest. Prizes are given for the largest/heaviest pumpkin, and there are additional prizes given too.

The pumpkins to be weighed arrive in the back of a truck, where they are then placed onto scales. Once the pumpkins are weighed, they have the name of the owner and their weight painted onto them.

The mascot of the Circleville Pumpkin Show is "The Pumpkin Man", and he skates around the streets of Circleville during the event, dressed in orange. He gets photographs with families and makes sure that everyone is having a good time! He stopped and chatted to us.

Another feature of the Circleville Pumpkin Show is the pumpkin pyramid. This was surrounded by all sorts and all sizes and colours of pumpkin - orange, white, cream, grey, miniature, etc. It was also surrounded by all sorts of gourds and squash, all of which are for sale and all of which looked in perfect condition and polished.

The pumpkin pyramid is the centrepiece for the event.

Also at the Circleville Pumpkin Show, Lindsey's Bakery shows the largest pumpkin pie. It measures 14 feet in diameter and was made using 795 pounds of pumpkin and 60 dozen eggs. It requires 15 people to mix the ingredients and takes ten hours to bake! The pie is auctioned off and then donated to local hogs to enjoy.

The Circleville Pumpkin Show has a huge selection of foods throughout the venue. There are also fairground rides (mainly rides for smaller children but also some for larger ones) dotted in various places, and it really is like a large county fair. I started to make a note of every pumpkin-related food that I saw, and I saw a lot! The Pumpkin Man recommended the pumpkin chilli, which is ground beef with pumpkin and tomato sauce and beans.

My first treat was a funnel cake with pumpkin cream, which tasted like pumpkin pie filling and was very delicious. I enjoy funnel cakes as one of my favourite county fair foods! It's hard to describe what this is like, but it is a sweet batter similar to pancake batter that is dripped into a fryer and fried and covered with powdered sugar. It is similar to a pancake-doughnut. Pumpkin funnel cakes were also available with cinnamon and cream cheese icing.

Then I saw pumpkin brownies, pumpkin taffy...

Before my father bought half a dozen pumpkin waffles for all eight of us to share, and these were really nice. I don't know how to describe the taste of these either, but they are deep-fried batter (with pumpkin) and come out like crispy wafers. They don't taste like anything I can compare it with, and it had been years since I've eaten one!

And earlier in the day, my father bought a little bucket from this little van with a pumpkin on top...

...of miniature pumpkin-flavoured doughnuts. Lindsey's Bakery is the best-known for the doughnuts, and they actually sell these all year. I had one several years ago when we drove through Circleville in the summer. There is a long queue/line for these doughnuts.

The deep-fried cookie dough screamed at me; it wasn't pumpkin flavoured, but I tried it. It was good. They also had deep-fried Oreo cookies, buckeyes (the Ohio State tree which is a food item named after the nut of the horse chestnut tree, but these nuts are poisionous and not to be confused with the peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate to look like the nut), and other treats deep-fried. They were actually too sweet for me.

And my father bought my mother and his grand-daughter a pumpkin ice cream, and I tasted a spoonful of it. It was good. (That's my mother posing for the photograph!)

Of course, no county fair event would be the same without candy or caramel apples!

And there was even deep-fried pumpkin!...

...Pumpkin cappuccino, pumpkin smoothie...

...Pumpkin cream, pumpkin mini doughnuts, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin fudge, pumpkin coney dog, pumpkin pulled pork, pumpkin cupcake, pumpkin coffee, pumpkin spice cappuccino, pumpkin funnel cakes, pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin shakes, pumpkin shots at the local bar, pumpkin chili, pumpkin cranberry bratwurst, pumpkin swirl cheese cake, pumpkin soup, pumpkin bread, pumpkin nachos, pumpkin burger, pumpkin cake, pumpkin waffles, pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin brittle, pumpkin shredded chicken, pumpkin cannoli, pumpkin hot chocolate, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin seeds....

...Deep-fried pumpkin cheesecake donuts, pumpkin float, pumpkin chili dog, pumpkin cream puffs, pumpkin spice pork sausage, pumpkin cheese pizza, pumpkin soda, pumpkin no-bakes, pumpkin buckeyes...

...And pumpkin crafts and items for sale. I liked the little sewn pumpkin cushions, and there were also glass pumpkins as well as jams and jellies for sale.

After the pumpkin weighing, the three largest pumpkins were available to view on the wagon along with the other pumpkins. The weather conditions this year were challenging for pumpkins. But, the winners for this year were first place to Mark Litz with a 1,607 pound pumpkin. Second place was Bob Brown's 1,548 pound pumpkin and the 1,331.5 pound pumpkin belonging to Mark Hoffhines.

Other prizes are for prettiest pumpkin, best strange-looking pumpkin, best display, and so on.

Last, but not least, a permanent mural depicts the Circleville Pumpkin Show and the Pumpkin Man on the side of a building.

And, the Wednesday also marks the start of the parades with the Little Miss Pumpkin parade and the Queen Pumpkin parade. The cars were lined up with the little girls waiting for the parade to begin.

Unfortunately, I was told that we had to leave after only four hours exploring the pumpkin show, and I did not get to see all of it or do everything that I wanted to do. One of the items on my list was to watch the parade, and it was just about to start when I was forced to leave. So, I am very disappointed about that as attending this festival has been on my list for many years, going back to the time when I was a young girl.

My tips for exploring the Circleville Pumpkin show are to try to go on a weekday when it is less busy, and try to get there fairly early in order to get a parking space; you will likely need to pay for a space. The early afternoon is when people start to arrive and when the parades begin (with marching bands) and when the music and entertainment. There's also more to see/do then, though you will need a few hours as well to try the different foods too, and there is a lot to see. There were a few things that I wanted to try with the pumpkin food, but I did not get to as we were in a group; I wanted to try a savoury pumpkin dish. Also, there are other areas to see that I did not get to with crafts/arts/produce judging/etc. And I would have gone on the ferris wheel but did not get to. So, in short, there's plenty to keep occupied and it isn't the type of place to rush as there's a lot to see and do as long as you know the schedule and what there is to see and do before you go. It's not all about the food, rides, and pumpkin display. A map of the event would also be useful as some of the areas tend to start to look the same. Also do not forget your souvinirs, which are located not far from the largest pumpkin display.

Bateman's Row in Shoreditch has been refreshed twice this year with new street art, creating a new place for street art to be painted on in the area. Pure Evil had used the walls for murals (covered here: Pure Evil Street Art Murals on Bateman's Row), and I captured his work just in time because it was painted over shortly after by Otto Schade, one of London's busiest street artists. Otto Schade, originally from Chile, has been painting London's walls for several years, and I first noticed his work in 2012. 

Otto Schade's work is easy to spot because he has two primary styles. One style is the circular silhouette pieces that depict a scene with a social or political message. The other style is the ribbon technique, used here on Bateman's Row. Characters are created using a ribbon style.

This piece is titled "The Lady don't protest enough", though at first I thought it was a tribute to William Shakespeare as it reminds me of the scene in "Hamlet" where the title character refers to a skull, and The Curtain theatre was discovered on the road near this road. However, it may be inspired by that but also by the treatment of women in the world. 

Next to the mural is one of Otto Schade's standing/posing women created using the same ribbon style. This one is unique because the artist uses the shape of the panel/wall to create an umbrella that the lady is holding.

I've previously posted about Otto Schade's work in the following posts:

Otto Schade "Jack the Ripper 2040" Street Art
Otto Schade 'The Believers' and 'WTF'
'Bull in a China Shop', 'Osch-car' and 'Flies Around Sh*t'
Otto Schade 'Peace and Love on the Streets'
Street Artist Otto Schade Paints Southampton 'Zany Zebra' for Charity (and other work)
Street Art Round-up: Spring & Summer 2015
Otto Schade's New Street Art (Meerkats, Portraits, & More) in East London
New Street Art from Horror Crew, Swoon, Otto Schade, HIN, and others
Street Art: Otto Schade

The new "Connectivity Matters" walls are one of Shoreditch's newest street art spots after many walls in the area have been developed on in recent years. Earlier this year, Hunto and MisterThoms painted the front of the wall (covered here: Hunto and MisterThomas Collaborate on Connectivity Matters Mural). Later in the spring, the wall was painted by several street artists, which I covered here: Street Art on ConnectivityMatters Wall. A large section of the wall still remained clear of street art, and I was waiting to see who was going to paint there. It turns out that the artist to paint the wall was Mr. Cenz, and the work was completed this summer.

Mr. Cenz has been painting London since the 1980s and uses a stylised grafitti style for his work. His subjects are usually female portraits painted in a futuristic and fantasy style and almost look part human and part cyborg. The new mural shows a woman holding a blue globe, which spells out the word "Future".

Additional work by Mr. Cenz can be found in the below links:

Loopcolors LooperFest Street Art "Power of Women" in Milan, Italy
Recent Street Art By Mr. Cenz in Winter 2018
Mr. Cenz Paints Tribute to Usain Bolt
Mr. Cenz Refreshes Fashion Street Mural
Mr. Cenz Paints Hanbury Street
New Street Art by Mr. Cenz
Street Art: Mr. Cenz (2015)
Autumn 2013 Street Art Round-up

Street artist JimmyC painted a wall of hearts using his dabbed paint style in the spring. The wall of hearts symbolises the people affected by the attacks on Borough Market a year ago in June. The artist is known for this paint dab technique and has created a lot of work in London featuring portraits and hearts. These hearts mark the second piece of street art by the artist in this area of London as he originally painted William Shakespeare a couple of years ago around the corner from this piece.

More artwork by JimmyC that I have posted about in this blog are:

JimmyC Paints "Royal Wedding" Mural for St. Christopher's Place
Mick's Hands
'Open the Mind'
JimmyC Redchurch Street Heart
JimmyC Paints Shakespeare on South Bank
Street Artist JimmyC Paints Caledonian Road
RIP David Bowie & An Afternoon in Brixton
New Mural in Ever-Changing Shoreditch by JimmyC
New 'Spring Offering' Mural by Bailon and Sliks (JimmyC, Zadok Sonar Uno)
New JimmyC Mural on Joe's Kid (Cafe), Fashion Street
JimmyC Street Art - New Inn Yard, Brick Lane, Hackney Road
New Street Art by JimmyC
Street Art: JimmyC

Street artist Wasp Elder was born in the UK but now lives in Berlin. His subjects are usually figures of people who appear to have been in a disaster or conflict; he uses an impressionistic style with muted colours to represent these feelings and emotions. The last time he painted in London was just over a year ago, but he returned recently to paint on Hanbury Street for a campaign "Education is Not a Crime". This is a subject that I feel very strongly about. Education should be for everyone, and I think that it ties with empathy and peace. I think the world would be a better place if people got/wanted an education and appreciate it. 

For more street art by Wasp Elder, see the below links:

Wasp Elder and Helen Bur - Victims of Circumstance Murals

Blaise Castle and Blaise Castle House Museum is located in Bristol, England. Blaise Castle is built on Blaise Hill and was built as a mock castle in the mid-1700s. It is only open during selected Sundays in the summer months, but it is such a small building and there is not really much inside the mock castle to see. The Castle House was designed and built at the end of the 1700s by William Paty, a Bristol merchant and banker.

Blaise Castle House Museum, located at the front of the Blaise Castle Estate, is a small museum that exhibits several items from life in days past, such as stoves, kitchen equipment, heating, lighting, toys, fashion, washing machines, and toilets. It also has a grand room with a few paintings and a shop and a cabinet of curiosities, which was a Victorian tradition to have a cabinet full of unique and original items to start converations. 

One room was dedicated to kitchen stoves used in the earlier 1900s, and this also included other kitchen equipment including some items that I have used (hand-cranked juicers to create tomato sauce) and that made me feel a little old. 

Also, there were some hand-lanterns in another room that use oil (kerosene) that my parents have had to use a couple different designs of when we lost electricity due to storms when I was a child. It was similar to the pink lamp and the lantern-style lamp on the bottom shelf below.

The room with bath tubs and toilets also contained information about washing clothes, including wash boards and early barrel washing machines.

Toys were featured quite a bit in a couple of the rooms. They included a large selection of dolls' house toys and soldiers.

Another room was designed like a school room with the flip-top desks similar to what I used in school. I have no idea what the desks are like in schools today.

After the visit to the House Museum, I walked on a little forest trail to the castle, which is actually hidden within the forest on a hilltop. It was a steep climb to the top, but the views were nice when you could peek out at them.

That concludes the visit to Blaise Castle. Overall, it does not take long to visit the estate to see the museum and then walk to the castle.

Bristol Upfest happened at the end of July this year, this is the tenth year of Upfest. Ten years ago, I remember hearing my ex-colleagues from when I worked in Bristol discussing visiting Upfest that year and for the next couple of years; I had moved out of that area at the end of 2007, so I never got to go to the early festivals but the community took a big interest in them from the first one. This year's Upfest is inspired by "The Simpsons", a cartoon comedy that has been running since the late 1980s. The creator of "The Simpsons", Matt Groening, choose three artists to represent his characters for Upfest 2018.

I have previously covered some of the larger murals from Bristol's Upfest 2018. Bristol-based street artist Jody painted , Nomad Clan painted #BeMoreLisa, Dank (Dan Kitchener) painted 'Ghost Cities - Bristol', and Rosk Loste painted a mural of a young lady. This post features additional street art and grafitti that appeared for Bristol Upfest 2018. This post only features the permanent pieces as I was not able to get to the event during the last weekend in July.

'The Simpsons' by Soker

Soker was one of the three artists picked by "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening for painting the famous family on Bristol's walls at Upfest 2018. He is a grafitti artist based in Bristol. His work depicts a stylised grafitti-style version of The Simpsons family on their iconic couch in the living room which will be familiar to anyone who has ever seen the show or an image from the show.

Simple Bao 

Simple Bao

Simple Bao is a Hong Kong-based artist and the second artist that Matt Groening choose as one of the artists to paint The Simpsons family at Upfest 2018. She creates freestyle colourful murals. I found two pieces that she created off North Street of various characters from "The Simpsons".

Nomad Clan are a duo of street artists; they are the third artist that Matt Groening picked to represent The Simpsons family. Nomad Clan painted #BeMoreLisa, a realistic-looking large mural on North Street with a young lady shouting from a speakerphone. The image of Lisa Simpson appears in the background, representing a role model. I covered this in more detail here: Nomad Clan painted #BeMoreLisa.

Angus

Angus is a Bristol-based street artist (Angus at Bristol Upfest 2018) who has been creating street art since 2015. His style is to use comedy and humour to send a message, and cartoon and video game characters do feature a lot. Although he was not picked by Matt Groening to showcase "The Simpsons", his work has commonly depicted them and other characters in the past, so it did not feel out of place. The above piece was one of my favourite's of this year's Upfest and depicts another character by Matt Groening - Bender the robot (on the right above) from "Futurama".

The London Police

The London Police are a duo of artists from England who started their street art career in Amsterdam in 1998, painting their smiley characters that they have become known for (known as LAD characters). These happy faces have been painted on a building on North Street.

Jake World and Unknown (possibly Angus?)

On the back of a sign, I captured a paste-up by Losthills Jake (originally covered here from paste-ups in London: Losthills Jake Paste-Ups Appear in East London). He puts the character in films or in the place of celebrities. I saw quite a bit of his work around the area, and I also saw a Bart Simpson made from plastic beads.

L7Matrix

L7Matrix

L7Matrix paints murals using bright colours and expressive lines. Birds feature a lot in his work, so these were painted at Upfest.

Cheo

One of Bristol's most famous street artists is Cheo, who paints bee faces and larger-than-life cartoon-style characters. I've previously covered the artist here: Artist Cheo Paints 'Shaun the Sheep' Mural in Bristol.

Annatomix

Annatomix is a street artist known for her geometry-style illustrations. I saw her at work in London previously and at a previous Upfest. This year for Upfest, she painted in Ebenezer Pocket Park in Bedminster.

Louis Masai

Louis Masai Painted a Mural depicting coral reef and ocean plastic pollution, which I covered more in detail in that post.

INKIE

INKIE

INKIE and Andis

Inkie is a Bristol-based street artist who paints sign or advertising-style murals with large typography and imagery. The street art is always eye-catching.

Boe and Irony

Boe & Irony painted a cat and mouse in a residential road in Bedminster, covered more in detail in the original post: Boe & Irony painted a cat and mouse.

Insane51

Insane51

Insane51 is a street artist from Greece. He is known for creating overlay-based art that can be seen with 3D glasses. You do not need the glasses to see the artwork, but it looks better through them I'm told. This is the completed work for a portrait of a woman, which turns to a skeleton X-ray effect in the background.

Caro Pepe

Caro Pepe

Argentian artist Caro Pepe creates characters with larger heads and faces to show the emotion of her work. Her main mural for Upfest is about women votes, which is a perfect subject for this year marking 100 years since women got the right to vote. This is also the theme that NomadClan used for their #BeMoreLisa art.

Jody

Jody, another artist from Bristol, painted a large-scale mural of a girl wearing a dog mask, covered here: "Little Gold Riding Hood". In addition, he painted a few smaller murals around Bedminster.

Lucas Antics

Lucas Antics is another Bristol-based illustrator who painted this witty rabbits on corded telephones. The mural looks much better seen straight-on instead of at an angle, but parked cars in front of it meant that I could not get a clear shot of the mural.

Ant Carver

Ant Carver is a London-based street artist, and I have covered his work many times, the most recent being Ant Carver Adds More Paste-ups to Sclater Street. His work features portraits that are usually completed in monotone with scribbles of colour over the top.

Stephen Hawking by ARCY Art

American artist ARCY painted a tribute for Stephen Hawking, the famous scientist who was also made famous because of his computer-generated voice. He passed away earlier this year, so it is a fitting tribute and a mural that certainly pops out.

Zabou

Zabou is an artist from France who is now based in London, and I enjoy seeing her work. She painted the above mural for Upfest, but her most recent work covered in this blog can be seen here: Villana and Zabou Collaborate on Amy Winehouse Street Art. 

Nagel

South African artist Nagel creates urban mushrooms, and I saw some of his work installed in Bedminster. My most recent post about his work can be seen here: More Mushrooms by Nagel

Stewy

Stewy creates stencils of icons and animals; Bristol has a lot of his artwork or has seen a lot of his artwork over the years. I love the sheep above.

Roske Lost

I covered the above piece in more detail here: Rosk & Loste Upfest 2018

ChinaGirl Tile

German tile street artist visited Upfest last year and left a lot of her tile art; I think it was her first visit to Upfest. She returned again this year and pasted up several new pieces, including some major work in what is the largest amount of tile art I've seen in one place for her. The above rat is a tribute to Banksy, an artist who is claimed to have made street art mainstream. More of her work can be seen here: ChinaGirl Tile at Upfest 2018

Guy Denning

I've covered Guy Denning's work before, and his work also appeared at Upfest in the past. This new mural (sorry about the quality, but it was one I saw then forgot to walk across the street and take a better photo as I got distracted by the Tobacco Factory and the constant stream of cars to cross the road in this area). I've previously covered Guy Denning's work here: New Street Art from Guy Denning and Alex Face, Mau Mau and Bon 

About Ponny

Ione Dominguez

Broink and Decimart

Michel Velt

Kowseone

Smok

Winged Fox

Piet Rodriguez

Paris MMX

Andis

Yarn bombing

Diff

ENVOL

Loved Up - Tobacco Building

8mail

The Hass

Rob Wass

SAKEOne 

Gage

I last covered Bristol Upfest in 2015, and you can see my post here: Bristol Upfest 2015. That year, I was in Bristol over Upfest so I managed to get a lot of photographs of the temporary artwork, but the larger murals normally do not get completed until earlier the week after.

German ceramic artist China Girl Tile returned this year to Upfest street art festival in Bristol after putting up some ceramics in the previous year. Several new pieces were installed, and these were installed around the Bedminster area of Bristol with larger-scale pieces being installed at the Tobacco Factory. I also photographed some previous pieces that I discovered. China Girl creates street art using ceramic, which is then installed onto the streets.

The "I stole Banksy" mouse with a paintbrush is one of the pieces by China Girl Tile. The rat is Banksy's symbol as he painted a stencil of it in many places as his calling card. Banksy is, of course, from Bristol.

China Girl Tile

For me, the best piece this year is the china giraffe installed at the gate of Tobacco Factory. The giraffe is just a head on the opposite side (the street side), which looks as though it is peeking from above the brick wall. On the inside of the Tobacco Factory, the giraffe appears to be inside a cage when the gate is open. The giraffe appears to be in a zoo! This piece really makes use of the space and environment around it.

China Girl Tile

Additionally, a wall of bank-note fish has appeared on the Tobacco Factory wall. The giraffe can be seen in the background too. Below are more photographs of the work I discovered by China Girl.

China Girl Tile

China Girl Tile

Previous posts on this blog that feature China Girl Tile's work are below:

ChinaGirl Tile Pastes up Street Art Mosaics in London
Street Art: St8ment, Grafter, Stra, ChinaGirl and others

Dan Kitchener (DANK) was one of the artists who painted during this year's Upfest 2018 in Bristol. The mural takes up the side of a house in Bedminster just a couple of blocks from North Street. The work, titled "Ghost Cities - Bristol", features a Tokyo landscape. Tokyo landscapes with bright lights are favourite subjects for London-based Dan Kitchener.

Dank

For more work by Dan Kitchener (DANK) featured in this blog, please read the following links:

Dan Kitchener Paints "Meeting of Styles"
'Future Tokyo and Tokyo Ghosts'
Dank "London Rush"
Dan Kitchener's Street Art on Sclater Street and More
Street Art: Dan Kitchener
"Downtown" Mural by Dan Kitchener
Goswell Road