Bristol’s graffiti scene has been featured in the Washington Post.

With Bristol graffiti kingpin John Nation as her guide, Paige McClanahan travels to “grungy-chic” Stokes Croft and Nelson Street, where she experiences something of an epiphany.

“As we gradually make our way down the street, I feel as though I’m strolling through a fantasyland of graffiti art,” McClanahan writes.

“Every foot of wall space seems to be covered — not just at eye level, but up the sides of buildings, around corners and in little alleyways off to the side.

“I’m struck by a boldly colored, 100-foot-long mural that turns out to be an abstract pastiche of Marvel superhero comics.

“Then I look up and discover that we’re being watched by two gargantuan stick figures that peer down at us from the side of a drab high-rise. It’s almost too much to take in.”