Friary Passage Street Art Murals
This project has been curated by We Are Street Art, a local collective driven by Artists striving to beautify forgotten spaces and invite community to enjoy public art.
Instagram: @wearestreetart
Ricky Also
Ricky Also is an artist & designer based on the South Coast. His bold graphic designs are created from layers of hand-drawn typography, featuring almost hidden messages that often reflect local history or forgotten heroes.
This piece has been created around the word Friary, echoing the name of the passage.
Instagram: @rickyalso Website: www.paintshopstudio.com
Phil Blake
Philth is a multidisciplinary artist taking inspiration from nature and the rich history of art and design. He continues to explore in his work the idea of a balance between nature and culture and order and chaos both literally and metaphorically.
The pattern work is a representation of this balance.
Instagram: Tba Website: Tba
Roo
Roo has a crew. It consists mostly of animals, which vary in mood and personality. Some are friendly and others will eat you.
The daisies in Roo's piece are traced from a photograph taken in Chantry Wood by local photographer Aga of ‘Capture & Glow’ Fine Art Photography, whose work beautifully captures the soft elements of nature in this local landscape. Roo has reimagined each flower in her distinctive cartoon style, grounding the imagined world of her characters in a real place and acknowledging the beauty that inspired the piece.
Instagram: @Roo_Art Website: www.artbyroo.com
The original photograph can be viewed on instagram: @capture_and_glow
Squirl
Squirl is an illustrator, author and artist from the South East UK who sees characters and relationships in the landscapes overlaps and interactions between the colours and shapes of trees.
This piece paints the forest as a character, staring out at all of the incredible surrounding artworks.
Instagram: @Squirlart
Sidok
Sidok is a multidisciplinary artist and muralist originally from western Ukraine, now based in London. Coming from a graffiti background, his work combines abstract composition, bold colour, movement and layered forms, often sitting somewhere between street art, design and contemporary mural painting.
This mural is based on one of his canvas works, reworked into a vertical composition for the Friary Passage. The process is partly improvised: each move responds to the previous one, almost like a game of chess. The aim was to bring colour and energy into the space, and to invite people to pause, look closer and get lost in the details of the composition.
Instagram: @sidok_szab Website: sidok.art
Layla Cope
Layla is a UK based mural and street artist with over 20 years’ experience. Alongside her mural practice, Layla engages in community art and spray-painting workshops and illustration, including two published children’s books.
Her inspiration for painting the deer centre from her daily walks. She often comes across the beautiful deer grazing in the mornings or at sundown whilst walking her dog.
Instagram: @laylas.murals Website: www.Laylasmurals.co.uk
Billy Colours
Billy (Alex Godwin) is a visual artist working on socially engaged public art, murals and co-creation, with nearly two decades of making site-specific work shaped by real research and community engagement.
When researching Guildford and discovering that the name of the town translates to Golden ford, Billy came across the Ford Model T racing car that was built in 1912, made from a copper zinc alloy that made it glint gold, earning it the nickname The Golden Ford. Billy was inspired to paint just that; a golden ford driving through a golden ford!
Instagram: @billycolours Website: Www.billycolours.com
Fark
Fark is a street artist based on the south coast and has been painting the streets here in the UK and abroad for the past twenty years. Known for his distinctive characters and positive messages.
The idea behind this piece is the wonderful walks you can have along the ‘River Wey’ and a play on words referencing the classic Aerosmith tune “Walk This Way”.
Instagram: @farkfk
Jeru Nomi
Jeru does lines or rather she makes art out of them. Her use of line work combined with pattern are the hallmarks of her signature style that take a whimsical view on reality.
‘Loose Goose’ was created to celebrate the feathered friends from Guildford’s riverside.
Instagram: @jeru.nomi Website: www.jerunomi.co.uk
Skewer
Skewer is a UK-based mural artist and tattooist. He enjoys creating detailed, atmospheric artwork inspired by nature, folklore and the darker side of storytelling.
In this mural, he wanted a moodier version of the March Hare from Alice in Wonderland, creating something that feels both familiar and a little unsettling. It’s a piece that’s meant to reward a closer look.
Instagram: @thesqwr
Tech Moon
Tech Moon is a street artist from Cornwall who is known for his large-scale murals that blend the natural world with timeless classical elements, creating work that interacts with its architectural canvas.
Owls are some of his favourite subjects to paint, as they have such a powerful and noble presence. In Guildford, he wanted to experiment with light and dark to make an owl look illuminated and the turquoise colour splash in the eyes connect the piece to other artworks in the tunnel.
Instagram: @tech.moon Website: www.technicolourmoon.com
Paul Monsters
Paul is a multi-disciplinary artist working with tessellating geometric patterns. He constructs abstract shapes inspired by nature, architecture, spirituality and history.
The concept of the pattern within his mural was inspired by the alien spacecrafts from War of the Worlds, based in Surrey. After doing some research on Guilford and the surrounding areas, he felt this would be a perfect fit.
Instagram: @paulmonsters Website: www.paulmonsters.com
Juan2
Juan2 is a graffiti artist from Spain and based in London since 2012. His abstraction is the main characteristic of his work and his pieces were born from the original idea of graffiti, the letters, but transforming and distorting them to the limit, which provides the main and unique character of his composition.
In this piece, the numeral ‘2’ becomes an exploration of form and motion. It acts as the backbone of the composition, twisting through a rich, multi-layered colour palette. The sharp, sweeping curves and fiery accents don’t just depict a number, they give it a living sense of speed, energy and structural grace.
Instagram: @juan2_gfx
Ansley Randall
Ansley Randall is a London based muralist and artist known for her bold geometric compositions, vibrant colour palettes and large-scale public artworks. Inspired by movement, the midcentury and the way colour can transform a space, she creates work that encourages curiosity and connection.
Instagram: @ansleyrandall Website: www.ansleyrandall.com
Skyhigh
Skyhigh is an innovative aerosol artist known for transforming urban landscapes into vibrant canvases. With a background in graffiti art stretching back to the mid nineties and a passion for community engagement, Skyhigh creates large-scale murals that blend beautiful colour palettes, letter forms and intricate designs to create immersive experiences that resonate with diverse audiences.
Instagram: @5kyh1gh Website: www.weareskyhigh.uk
Skyhigh and Ansley have collaborated to create a mural in the Friary Passage. This piece combines their artistic styles through shared design exchanges, conversation and development. Skyhigh’s signature typography carries the message “Be More Kind,” while bold geometric forms and vibrant colour create a welcoming, uplifting space that encourages connection, positivity and compassion within the community.