The welcome to visitors at Temple Meads is not the city’s finest, with a derelict Royal Mail sorting office on one side and empty hotels and concrete office blocks on the other. From today, the welcome will be slightly more colourful thanks to a new work by Inkie on platform three (below) and an inflatable work by Filthy Luker, Pedro Estrellas and Dave Dwight next to the approach road.

The artworks have appeared to launch a call to artists to create a new “gateway” to the station as part of a commission for the Bristol Temple Quarter (BTQ) Enterprise Zone.

Inkie’s canvas, Bristol to Brooklyn, forms a sister piece to the one he painted in New York last year (read more about the BEAM event here), and uses traditional Art Nouveau blended with New York spray painting techniques to form his “Ink Nouveau” style.

Shoot and Leaf (below) is a 10-metre high inflatable installation piece next to the entrance to Brunel’s Old Station, which sees a fresh green shoot breaking through the cobblestones and reaching up to the sky.

The Creative Gateway competition, launched at the station yesterday by Bristol Festival of Ideas director Andrew Kelly, hopes to help visitors learn more about the area and guide them on their way.

The competition will give ten awards of £500 for project proposals to be developed. An overall winner will be announced in May, with a prize of £2,500.

www.bristoltemplequarter.com/the-zone/animating-the-zone