New Great And Clever Street Art! (20 Photos, Vol. 13)

Twenty works worth a closer look.

A mechanical rhino meets a dog watching the hills, while trains, boats, flowers and intimate portraits take over walls across Europe and North America. These twenty works reward a second look.

Tap Love beneath your favorites: the order changes as readers vote.

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🧵 “Conceição” — By Hanna Lucatelli in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦

A woman in a white blouse and blue patterned skirt stands before three generations of faces, with children gathered at her feet. Tile-like patterns flow through the mural and across the pavement.

Painted at 1636 Dundas Street West, the 160-square-metre mural is a tribute to memory, migration and the women who carry culture between generations.

💡 Nerd Fact: The imagery is not exclusively Portuguese. The museum explains that Lucatelli combines Portuguese iconography with Brazilian offerings to the sea; even the potted plants serve as a metaphor for species, and people, adapting to a colder climate.

More: See Art About Mothers and Grandmothers (15 Photos).

Artwork page: Dundas West Open Air Museum.

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🚂 “Passage Through Ticonderoga” — By Steven Teller in Ticonderoga, New York, USA 🇺🇸

A red steam locomotive, a blue steamboat and a captain at the wheel compress a century of movement into one cinematic wall. White flowers soften the machinery at street level.

Created for Walls Between Waters, the mural draws on local archives and Ticonderoga’s history as a meeting point for rail and lake travel. It was painted at 172 Champlain Avenue.

💡 Nerd Fact: The Delaware & Hudson’s Baldwin and Ticonderoga branches served the steamboat and paper industries from the late nineteenth century. Local freight traffic had ended by 1980, while lake travel continued as a tourist activity.

More: See American Murals Worth the Detour (8 Photos).

Artwork page: Walls Between Waters.

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🦏 Rhino — By Daniel MacLloyd in Berchem, Luxembourg 🇱🇺

A rhinoceros head stretches across the angled wall, its eye, horn and heavy folds rendered in charcoal grey with flashes of orange. Real windows cut directly through the animal’s face.

The work was painted at 16 Rue Méckenheck for Méckenheck Expo. MacLloyd identifies the animal as a black rhino. No formal title has been confirmed, so the heading is descriptive.

💡 Nerd Fact: Black rhinoceroses are not actually black. Their prehensile upper lip is adapted to grasp leaves and branches, making them browsers rather than grazers.

More: See “Bird Love” by Daniel MacLloyd (4 Photos).

Artist website: Daniel MacLloyd.

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🐕 “A Painting of Ernie” — By Young Jarus in Can Picafort, Mallorca, Spain 🇪🇸

A white-and-brown dog stands with its back to the street, looking across pale rocks toward green hills. The lavender sky gives the quiet scene an almost dreamlike distance.

Painted for Saladina Fest at Carrer de l’Arenal, 19. The artist shared the work under the title “A Painting of Ernie”. Photo by Ingredientes Creativos.

💡 Nerd Fact: Can Picafort was still a fishing village of about 200 inhabitants in the early 1970s. Its rapid transformation into a resort followed the expansion of tourism on Alcúdia Bay.

More: See Street Art for Dog Lovers (12 Photos).

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📖 “J’aurais Aimé Trouver un Chemin vers le Monde Caché Entre les Pages” — By Hera in Saint-Martin-d’Hères, France 🇫🇷

A child leans over a red book while fish and whales seem to rise from its pages. Handwritten lines spread across the lower wall like thoughts escaping into the street.

The Street Art Fest Grenoble-Alpes says Hera painted the mural entirely freehand in three days. It stands at 107 Rue des Taillées. Photo by Toma RM.

💡 Nerd Fact: Hera is the working name of Jasmin Siddiqui. The name Herakut combines her alias with Akut, the alias of Falk Lehmann, with whom she began collaborating in 2004.

More: See Hera’s Vincennes Mural (8 Photos).

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🛏️ “4:44 AM” — By ALBFS in Gallipoli, Italy 🇮🇹

A tall blank façade becomes a bedroom at the quietest hour of the night. Two people sleep beneath blue bedding while a lamp and framed pictures complete the illusion.

In her post about the mural, ALBFS says the work addresses violence subtly through a scene that initially appears ordinary. It was painted at Via Varese, 3 for Oh My G.A.D.

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🏺 “Les Gardiennes de l’Argile” — By Hopare in Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹

A finely drawn paste-up of a woman carrying pottery appears on a weathered wall in Lisbon’s Alfama district. The restrained palette lets the surface become part of the portrait.

The title translates as “The Guardians of Clay.” Hopare’s introduction to the series connects it to the women potters of São Pedro do Corval in Portugal’s Alentejo region. Photo by Ride and Paint.

💡 Nerd Fact: São Pedro do Corval became an important pottery centre because of nearby clay deposits. Portugal’s tourism board also records it among the Alentejo communities where artisans preserve older clay-working processes.

More: See “Trine” by Hopare (8 Photos).

Artist’s post: “Les Gardiennes de l’Argile”.

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💐 Still Life with Flowers and Bird — By Rascals in Bratislava, Slovakia 🇸🇰

A bouquet, a small bird and a green geometric pattern fill a giant painted frame on the side of a tower block. From a distance, the whole building reads like a picture hung in the city.

The mural was created for SPP at Hraničná 336/1 in Ružinov. No formal title has been confirmed, so the heading is descriptive.

💡 Nerd Fact: The term still life came into use in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Objects in early examples often carried moral or spiritual meanings.

More: See Walls Bloom With Flowers (12 Photos).

Artist links: the mural post and artist profile.

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🤖 Mechanical Rhino — By Drako in Chimalhuacán, State of Mexico, Mexico 🇲🇽

Gold armor plates, cables and a cold blue eye turn a rhinoceros into a machine. The close crop makes its horn and metal face push straight toward the viewer.

The work was painted for Meeting of Styles Mexico. No formal title has been confirmed, so the heading is descriptive. Chimalhuacán is in the State of Mexico, outside Mexico City proper.

💡 Nerd Fact: Meeting of Styles began in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1997 as the International Wall Street Meeting. It grew from efforts to defend a vast graffiti site at the former Schlachthof industrial complex from demolition.

More: See 29 Street Art Gems From Mexico.

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🌊 “The Distance from the Sea to Certainty” — By Medianeras in Caorle, Italy 🇮🇹

A young face looks toward the sky while red and orange ribbons wrap around the building’s corners and windows. The architecture becomes part portrait and part shifting horizon.

Medianeras describes the mural as a wave of colour connecting the figure to Caorle’s coastal landscape. It was created for Caorle Sea Festival at Viale Santa Margherita, 31.

💡 Nerd Fact: In Spanish, medianeras are party walls shared by neighbouring buildings. The duo chose the name because a shared wall joins properties rather than merely separating them, mirroring their view of public art as common space.

More: See Medianeras’ Mostar Mural (9 Photos).

Artist website: Medianeras.

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🦋 Mechanical Horse — By Camer1 and Pawn Paint in Elk Grove, California, USA 🇺🇸

A silver mechanical horse gallops beside an armored woman while butterflies drift between them. The long wall moves from hard machinery to soft natural details.

Painted at Custom Fireside at 9097 Elk Grove Boulevard for Paint the Grove, the collaboration brought together Camer1’s nature-inspired imagery and Pawn Paint’s dreamlike style. Photo by Daniel James Photos. No formal title has been confirmed.

💡 Nerd Fact: James Watt developed horsepower as a unit in the 1780s to express steam-engine output in familiar terms. His estimate equalled 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute.

More: See Horse Art in the Streets (9 Photos).

Source: official Paint the Grove story.

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🪷 Golden Lotus — By Konorebi in Oakland, California, USA 🇺🇸

A huge golden lotus opens across the upper floors of a building, backed by a deep mauve circle. The flower’s pale veins remain visible even from far down the street.

The mural is at 121 East 12th Street, on Sen Lake, a 91-home affordable-housing development. In a post about the work, Konorebi explains that sen means lotus in Vietnamese. Photo by Zach Bruce. No formal title has been confirmed, so the heading is descriptive.

💡 Nerd Fact: A lotus leaf is covered with microscopic bumps and hairs. Water therefore beads up and rolls away with dirt, a self-cleaning mechanism known as the lotus effect that has inspired engineered surfaces.

More: See Walls Turn Into Flowers (12 Photos).

Project page: EBALDC’s official Sen Lake page.

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🧒 “I N F A N Z I A” — By Alberto Ruce in Saint-Jean-de-Touslas, France 🇫🇷

A pale adult figure holds a child’s hand as both seem to fade into the building. Real windows interrupt the scene, making the memory-like figures feel present and absent at once.

The Italian word infanzia means childhood. The work was created near Place de la Liberté for 1 Village 1 Artiste.

💡 Nerd Fact: Beauvallon is a new commune formed from three former villages. The 1 Village 1 Artiste project assigned one muralist to each village, followed by a fourth artist whose work symbolized their union.

More: See Art About Growing Up (9 Photos).

Project page: official local tourism listing.

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💧 A Handful of Water — By Adventis in Port-de-Bouc, France 🇫🇷

A woman lifts water in her cupped hands, her face filling the warm-toned wall. The close view catches the pause just before she drinks.

Painted behind 35 Avenue Roger Salengro for Les Nouveaux Ateliers. No formal title has been confirmed, so the heading is descriptive. Photo by Aude Zikntof.

💡 Nerd Fact: Les Nouveaux Ateliers says Port-de-Bouc now has nearly 70 monumental works in public space. The festival’s name honours Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence, the local shipyard that operated until 1966 and built almost 200 vessels.

Festival website: Les Nouveaux Ateliers.

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🎭 “Many Masks of Different Faces” — By Adnate in Aalborg, Denmark 🇩🇰

A woman’s face rises above roses while another painted face appears as a mask at her side. Warm orange and purple tones carry the portrait across the full gable.

Kirk Gallery records this as Adnate’s first large-scale work in Denmark, completed in four days for Out in the Open. The mural stands at the corner of Nyhavnsgade and Østre Havnegade. Photo by Fleron Fotografi.

💡 Artist’s Note: Adnate intentionally leaves the central question unresolved: is the figure hiding behind the mask or revealing herself? He links the work to Danish storytelling traditions and to ideas about identity encountered while painting Indigenous communities around the world.

More: See Adnate’s Portrait in Exile (3 Photos).

Artwork page: Kirk Gallery.

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⛏️ The Miner — By Ceser in Campdevànol, Spain 🇪🇸

A miner holds a bright piece of ore while a pickaxe and loaded cart extend the scene into the building. Painted shadows make the workshop feel deeper than the wall.

The mural was created at Carrer Sant Llorenç, 1 for GraffTech Fest. It forms part of the festival’s “Corazón de acero” route, in which buildings represent trades connected to the metal industry. No formal title has been confirmed, so the heading is descriptive. Photo by Ferr.

💡 Nerd Fact: Campdevànol’s link to metallurgy is not merely a festival theme. The town was named European Iron Capital in 2017 in recognition of its industrial heritage.

More: See the People Who Keep Cities Going (11 Photos).

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🌼 “Petals of Time” — By Studio Giftig in Ticonderoga, New York, USA 🇺🇸

An elderly woman looks upward through white chrysanthemums and curling leaves. The portrait stretches between the building’s windows without losing its quiet expression.

Walls Between Waters identifies the sitter as Belva, who has lived in the Ticonderoga region for 103 years. The chrysanthemums symbolize longevity, connecting her life to the community’s shared memory. The mural was painted on the rear of 119 Montcalm Street.

💡 Nerd Fact: Giftig is the Dutch word for “toxic”. Niels van Swaemen and Kaspar van Leek adopted the name after storing their paint and spray cans in a warehouse room designated for toxic substances.

More: See “Wild Hearts” by Studio Giftig (7 Photos).

Artwork page: Walls Between Waters.

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🔥 “Forjador” — By Konestilo in Campdevànol, Spain 🇪🇸

A helmeted worker leans into a glowing forge as orange sparks cut through deep violet shadows. The heat seems to spill onto the street.

Forjador means “forger” or “blacksmith.” The mural was created at Carrer Sant Llorenç, 7 for GraffTech Fest’s “Corazón de acero” route. Photo by Ferr.

💡 Nerd Fact: The defining Catalan-forge technology was hydraulic. At the nearby Farga Palau, stored river water powered a wheel and generated the continuous air current needed by the furnace.

More: See the People Who Keep Cities Going (11 Photos).

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🌹 Two Women and Roses — By Floyd Mendoza in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA 🇺🇸

Two women look out from a red, black and white field of roses. The limited palette turns the portraits into a clear graphic signal across the wall.

Floyd Mendoza III created the work at Glass Nickel Pizza Co. at 410 East Main Street for Sun Prairie Mural Fest. No formal title has been confirmed, so the heading is descriptive.

Festival page: official Sun Prairie Mural Fest artist page.

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⛵ “The Silent Boat” — By Edoardo Ettorre in Eiði, Faroe Islands 🇫🇴

A standing figure holds a small wooden boat at waist height, but the wall crops away the face and turns the gesture into the entire story. Cool blue-grey tones echo the surrounding North Atlantic landscape.

The work was painted at Kastalag 5 for We Need Art FO. In his post about the mural, Ettorre describes the boat as a traditional Faroese vessel and a symbol of the islands’ maritime heritage.

💡 Nerd Fact: The Faroese clinker boat joined UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2021 as part of the wider Nordic clinker-boat tradition. Faroese builders traditionally shape these descendants of Viking ships by eye and rule of thumb, without moulds.

More: See Quiet Art (18 Photos).

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