Strolling through any city nowadays you’ll spot delightful decorating walls that were once bland. They’re flowers, large, gentle, and vibrant. This trend of nature-themed murals isn’t accidental. Numerous muralists today focus on elements transforming public areas into serene inspiring havens of beauty.
Today we’ll explore some leading flower muralists around the world. These artists flourished with their distinct styles. These creators infuse nature into cityscapes where people seek a pause filled with color, calmness and gentleness. Since this selection highlights present-day figures we emphasize innovators defining today’s visual landscape.
Let’s get into it.
Sophie Mess
Sophie Mess’s vibrant flower mural offers a refreshing new perspective on nature. The energetic floral murals exude a sense of movement, energy, and color that is unique to Sophie’s work.
She combines her graffiti-style confidence with the discipline of a trained fine artist. Sophie’s work evokes strong emotional responses through her strength of character.
Sophie began developing her artistic practice in Europe (the UK specifically), but her art has since become an accepted part of global visual culture, featuring architecture on large buildings and rooftops, public areas throughout urban environments, and within internal spaces where individuals seek out uplifting experiences via visual stimulation. Since she believes in the uplifting effects of visual art on the mind, when you see her work, it feels like an affirmation of that belief. The swirling petals are prominent in Sophie’s work, as are the oversized flower heads, with soft edges dissolving into an abstract form that continues to draw your attention.
Sophie’s style encourages you to stop and breathe for a moment to soak up the beauty of nature that is being portrayed.
This mural artist regularly references the details of her garden in her murals, using the different color palettes provided by tulips, lilies, and roses to bring the feeling of being close to nature into her work. By designing with details found in nature, Sophie’s work doesn’t appear decorative but rather is designed to engage viewers’ imaginations and emotions.
Sophie is part of a community of street artists creating a new wave of muralists who combine street art roots and high-quality contemporary studio art practices. Sophie’s murals are exuberant, all-encompassing, and something you won’t forget.
Natasha May Platt
Natasha May Platt is recognized as one of the captivating flower mural artists active today in New York City. You might recognize her as @surfaceofbeauty, on Instagram, a name that’s quite fitting. Her murals introduce gentleness, flow and elegance to the fast-paced urban environment.
Natasha’s path is as captivating as her creations. She pursued philosophy and religion at Harvard graduating magna cum laude and earned a year- Gardner Fellowship. This fellowship brought her to Kolkata, India where she deeply engaged with textile and embroidery customs. Those experiences shaped her perception of color, design and repetition. Now her murals reflect the smooth rhythm of textile artistry.
Her bond with meditation and the natural world steers her approach. That tranquility is evident in her murals. Flowers blossom deliberately. Patterns hold a flow. Colors come across as calming yet vivid.
Muralist Natasha has created artwork for recognized companies including Netflix, Apple TV, Google, Amazon Music, True Food Kitchen, Coach, Freeform Media among others. She has collaborated with the NYC Department of Education-profit organizations such as the 100 Gates Project and several community-focused programs. Her murals are featured across New York City with her work extending to locations, like Mexico, Bali, India and the British Virgin Islands.
What distinguishes Natasha is the kindness embedded in her creations. She transforms environments by embedding them with serene charm. Observers frequently mention that her murals evoke an atmosphere and that purpose is evident in each brushstroke. She employs flowers not as embellishments but as emblems of mindfulness and awareness.
If you explore New York and stumble upon one of her murals, you’ll know instantly her style carries a soft glow that makes walls feel alive.
Graphic Rewilding
Graphic Rewilding, the duo of Catherine Borowski and Lee Baker, brings a unique voice to botanical muralism. Their approach feels playful, bold, and immersive. They focus on large-scale, flower-forward artworks that turn entire streets, building facades, and public spaces into living gardens—without a single real plant.
They started Graphic Rewilding after realizing how people living in dense cities desperately search for emotional relief and visual softness. Their murals give viewers that missing nature moment. Bright flowers, giant petals, wild meadows, and color explosions show up everywhere they work.
Their projects appear across the UK, Italy, China, Saudi Arabia, and the USA, including a striking floral installation in Houston, Texas. Their murals don’t stop at traditional surfaces. They design pop-up gardens on asphalt, bring meadows onto billboards, and extend their ideas into AR experiences. They love pushing boundaries and helping people feel happier in their daily environment.
Graphic Rewilding
Graphic Rewilding is the duo of Catherine Borowski and Lee Baker – two artists who create alternative expressions of botanical muralism. Their work can be defined as ‘playful’, ‘bold’, ‘immersive’. The majority of their artwork consists of large format, floral-themed artwork, which is meant to turn streets, buildings and public areas into living gardens, but doesn’t actually contain any real plants.
The genesis of Graphic Rewilding came from the observation of how people living in heavily populated urban areas frequently look for methods to relieve themselves emotionally and visually. The artworks created by Graphic Rewilding provides people with the opportunity to have that moment of connection to nature. Bright florals, flower petals, wildflower meadows, and vibrant colors form a predominant part of the visual language of all of Graphic Rewilding’s work, regardless of geographical location.
Graphical Rewilding has completed multiple projects in locations around the globe including the UK, Italy, China, Saudi Arabia, and the USA. Some notable projects include a large floral installation in Houston, Texas, and multiple billboard-based projects as well as temporary gardens installed on asphalt, and integrating augmented reality elements and digital installations into the graphic nature of the work. The creativity and novelty of the work of Graphic Rewilding is evident, and the ability to help bring positivity and joy into the urban landscape through the creation of these graphics on urban structures is an essential element of their business model.
Graphic Rewilding believes even imagined nature can affect mental wellbeing. Their murals brighten moods, spark smiles, and create a small world where the city stops feeling heavy.
Anne von Freyburg
This mural artist follows an approach compared to conventional muralists. Her botanical designs resemble sculpted tapestries, more than traditional paintings. Located in London Anne combines fabrics, art and historical elements to produce wall-mounted artworks that exude opulence and profound emotion.
Her creations are influenced by floral still-life artworks and art from the Rococo period. She incorporates fringe, textiles, layered elements and vibrant hues to create arrangements that project, from the wall. Although her medium contrasts with mural art her works aim for the same objective—introducing nature into indoor or public environments in a modern and innovative manner.
Her murals and wall installations add depth, personality, and vibrancy to modern interiors. They feel warm, tactile, and unapologetically bold.
Epoh Beech
Epoh Beech is a London-based muralist who creates narrative wall art from nature using a creative process that incorporates hand-drawn items, nature, personal stories, and symbolic meaning from the past. The feel of Epoh’s drawings is very similar to that of an illustrated dreamscape, incorporating elements of botany and references to images seen on ancient scrolls, narratives told through tapestries, and mythological representations of histories and heroes.
The themes of Epoh’s work often include motion/ movement, time, and the wisdom of nature and she takes time sometimes months or even years to plan out each drawing like a 3D project. She creates images by studying and drawing them with detailed pen and ink drawings first, and then converts them into her final form of murals and wallpaper.
Flowers and narratives are combined to create an overall theme for every mural or wallpaper design that she offers. The murals and wallpaper designs she offers create an invitation for the viewer to wander through the images as if they were readers on a moving visual poem.
The Relevance of Modern Muralists
As the pace of urban life accelerates, our need to stop and appreciate nature becomes increasingly important. For the current generation of urban muralists, nature provides an opportunity to help us all slow down and enjoy a moment. Flowers are a way to bring softness to a city filled with harshness. They provide a sense of warmth and comfort. They also provide you with a reminder to take a moment to be mindful, be present, and to experience something gentle.
Whether placed in indoor community hubs or painted across outdoor city walls, these murals bridge the gap between our built spaces and the natural world we often forget to pause for.
Most of today’s contemporary muralists create works that are more than just decorative pieces. By painting murals of flowers, artists create a way for people to experience and connect with their environment. Murals can turn grey, urban regions into colorful, joyful places. A mural artist can turn an empty space into an emotionally charged place. Through their artistic work, they are also helping communities recognize the need for art to have a place in everyday life.
Walking past a monumental mural, or discovering a more subtle flower mural, creates an unexpected moment of beauty, which in today’s world is priceless.
