Natural Feelings (12 Photos)

August 26, 2026

By Vidar

Flowers, branches and leaves carry the story.

Across these twelve works, nature—both living and painted—shapes scenes of shelter, tenderness, grief, curiosity and care.

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🌺 Living Bougainvillea Hair — By Fábio Gomes Trindade in Trindade, Goiás, Brazil 🇧🇷

On Rua Seis in Conjunto Arco-Íris, the portrait sits directly beneath a flowering bougainvillea, whose magenta canopy completes the child’s Afro. Gomes identifies Egypt Sarai as the inspiration and invited people to visit while the plant was in bloom. In an interview with Travel Noire, he said painting Black women’s natural beauty was his favorite subject and a way to pay tribute to all Black women.

💡 Nerd Fact: Gomes began making wall art in 2014. Before becoming an artist, he worked in construction. He told Travel Noire that the job sharpened his sense of proportion and named Eduardo Kobra as an important influence.

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🦌 Deer With Real Branches for Antlers — By BHEJAL near Gauhati University in Guwahati, India 🇮🇳

Pratidin Time identifies BHEJAL as Jintumoni Gogoi and places the work near Gauhati University in Sundarpur. Gogoi said two branches breaking through the neglected wall made him imagine a resting deer. He finished the intervention in two hours and used the branches as its antlers.

💡 Nerd Fact: Antlers are bone structures that are shed and regrown, unlike horns. The U.S. National Park Service explains the difference.

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🌸 “Sa arrecada de sa mama” — By KAMMA MARLO in Inca, Mallorca, Spain 🇪🇸

KAMMA MARLO paints a woman in profile with dark hair, white clothing, a flower-filled bun and one long earring. Her post confirms the title, which can be read approximately as “Mum’s earring.” Painted for the seventh INCA STREET ART festival in May 2026, the mural stands at Avinguda dels Reis Catòlics 141.

💡 Language Fact: The two instances of sa are the Balearic definite article, also called the article salat. The Institut d’Estudis Catalans traces it to the Latin demonstrative ipsu and notes that it reached the Balearic Islands during the medieval expansion of Catalan.

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🐈 “Jade and Moggy” — By Nina Valkhoff in Ghent, Belgium 🇧🇪

Jade sleeps with Moggy wrapped in her arms while blue leaves and small fish fill the wall around them. In her post about the finished mural, Valkhoff called it a work for everyone who needs a hug and credited Karin Post’s photograph of her daughter Jade with their cat Moggy as the source image.

💡 Nerd Fact: “Jade and Moggy” was one of nine murals in Wallin’s 2021 Goldmine project. Wallin records 976 square metres of work across Nieuw Gent and says the project concluded with music, workshops and events intended to bring visitors into the neighbourhood.

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🌼 “La Acogida” — By Serpientesal in Reque, Peru 🇵🇪

A reclining woman stretches across the wall, with a child resting against her. In Serpientesal’s account of “La Acogida”, the mural draws on nearby Cerro Cerrillos and presents life continuing after death. Peru’s Ministry of Culture confirms that a Lambayeque-period temple and evidence of human sacrifice were found at the protected archaeological site.

💡 Archaeology Fact: A bioarchaeological study of 81 skeletons from Cerro Cerrillos dated the assemblage to the tenth and eleventh centuries. Most victims were children and adolescents, unlike the adult warriors associated with earlier Moche sacrifice. The researchers broadly linked the recurring rites to water control and fertility.

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🔥 “Semillas de luz” — By JCOPE in Albán, Colombia 🇨🇴

Painted for Festival Guasabara Panche 2026, the long, low mural shows a resting woman, a spiral shell, white flowers, green feathers and hands protecting a small flame.

💡 Language Fact: The word in the festival’s name has an Indigenous Antillean origin. The Association of Academies of the Spanish Language records guasábara as “conflict” or “confrontation” in Dominican Spanish and as “riot,” “tumult” or “shouting” in Puerto Rico.

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🐞 “Explore Nature” — By Natalia Rak in Terracina, Italy 🇮🇹

At Via Pantanelle 15, a child studies a ladybird through a magnifying glass while real shrubs partly cover the lower wall. Natalia Rak identifies “Explore Nature” as a 2014 work made in Terracina for the Memorie Urbane festival.

💡 Nerd Fact: The 2014 edition of Memorie Urbane extended beyond Terracina to five other towns: Gaeta, Latina, Fondi, Itri and Arce. In an interview with festival curator Davide Rossillo, Rak was named among 11 of its 22 international artists who had never previously painted in Italy.

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🌽 “VESTIGIOS” — By FLUXUS / Pavel Jones & MÂS1CREW in Bucaramanga, Colombia 🇨🇴

At Parque Giordano Bruno, this mural covers more than 200 square metres and shows a Guane woman surrounded by ancestral symbols from Santander. In Pavel Jones’s account of the mural, “VESTIGIOS” is described as an act of symbolic reconstruction of Guane culture; Pavel Jones and Sare García led the work, assisted by Chelsis and Falken.

💡 Nerd Fact: Vanguardia explains that cotton, textile-stamping pintaderas, pottery, maize, a starry sky, the Chicamocha canyon and the hormiga culona represent Guane work, astronomy and nature throughout the mural.

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💜 “Cult of St Enoch” — By Smug in Glasgow, Scotland 🇬🇧

At 6 George Street, this is Smug’s 2026 replacement for his earlier St Enoch mural, which was lost during remedial work. Glasgow City Council says the new portrait shows St Enoch—also known as St Thenue, mother of St Mungo—in later life. The official mural trail says the mural draws on Rebecca Sharp’s poetry play Maiden Mother Mage and uses foxgloves for their links to myth and lore. Photo by Charles M Daxon.

💡 Nerd Fact: Kew’s Plants of the World Online notes that Digitalis purpurea is a source of digitoxin.

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💗 Quem ama não agride — By Fnd Graffiti Art in Curitiba, Brazil 🇧🇷

The words on the wall mean roughly “Those who love do not harm.” Fnd places them beside a pink portrait and a hummingbird at Rua Davi Xavier da Silva, 398. The artist’s post shows the finished wall and credits the festival. It was painted for the 10th Street of Styles. The event brought 350 graffiti artists to Curitiba’s CIC district, where they painted about 70 walls.

💡 Nerd Fact: The slogan is not unique to this wall. Fnd documented a Street of Styles work carrying the same “Quem ama não agride” line in 2021.

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🦊 “Hipócritas de campo” — By Jacobo Palos Wey in La Palma del Condado, Spain 🇪🇸

The long wall shows a red-haired woman in profile beside a fox-like animal and a colorful bird. The Liga Nacional de Graffiti’s official post confirms the title and La Palma del Condado location.

💡 Nerd Fact: This was one of 24 works in the competition’s first 2026 round, divided between lettering and figurative categories.

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🍂 “Happily Lost” — By Natalia Rak in Arcugnano, Italy 🇮🇹

A red-haired woman sits inside an enormous leaf while oversized flowers cover the wall of the municipal gym at Via Torri 4. In her own post about “Happily Lost”, Rak said she wanted to continue the “exploring nature” theme established by Liqen and Mantra, whose murals share the site. The building’s windows remain visible between the painted plants.

💡 Nerd Fact: Rak said the Arcugnano commission took two weeks and was painted almost entirely in acrylics.

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