“The city is never a blank canvas. Every surface already carries a memory.”
About the work
Ply & Pine is the studio of an urban painter translating weathered walls, classical fragments, and street-level color into layered contemporary images.
Carry art with you
Small-run editions made carefully in the studio.
Blue Figure Tote
Screen print · £32Wall Study 17
Risograph · £26Layers of expression
Fragments of portraiture, hand-painted type, and found texture are built, erased, and rebuilt.
Street art at the city’s heart
Recent murals across Bristol, Lisbon, and Marseille.
“Ply & Pine folds classic portraiture into a vivid language of the present—tender, restless, and unmistakably alive.”
— Rowan Bell, Field Review
Featured: Eternal Ascent
A new public work about ambition, inheritance, and the stories cities choose to keep.
Press & recognition
Modern Painters — Studio profile 2026
Creative Review — Walls with memory 2025
CityLab — New public voices 2025
Art Forum North — Ones to watch 2024
Surface — Material and gesture 2024
Events & exhibitions
Harbor Gallery, Bristol · Sep 2026
Atelier Onze, Marseille · Nov 2026
Common Room, London · Jan 2027
Stokes Croft · Oct 2026
Trinity Centre · Dec 2026
Field School · Feb 2027