below: Dance the Dance My Girl,” is located in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Vancouver. It is a collaboration between Ari de la Mora and Irving Cano and it was painted as part of the 2017 Vancouver Mural Festival.
below: A woman in traditional clothing and jewelry, holding a very realistic looking heart and a pineapple. The latter symbolizes hospitality and abundance.
Photos taken April 2025
….. a small narrow lane filled with street art murals, many of them by female artists.
below: A stunning blue portrait by Juzpop
below: Mirka Lane is a ‘U’ shaped lane in St. Kilda, Melbourne.
below: Juzpop’s red woman with a hat on the left. On the right is a ‘colder’ coloured woman in purples and blues by Tayla Broekman.
below: One of the walls in Mirka Lane.
below: Misshapen characters, lumpy and pink, that seem to float around, by Jaz Mishap (aka Jaz Miu)
below: Manda Lane is an artist that specializes in very realistic flowers (and other plant life).
below: Niqui Toldi has painted a woman with short pink hair that matches both the pink stripe in her top and her fingernails
below: More blue people – these pink-haired women are the work Bronik.
below: A green and purple chair by Giovanna Da Silva.
below: Another look at the wall… From the other end this time.
below: All in blue, “I’ll be back”
below: Circular calligraphy, also in blue.
below: One Love with happy flowers
below: Bright red mushrooms in the grass
below: Caroline Lejeune painted this wild looking over-sized eye atop a skinny naked body that even has a long tail. Naked except for the high heel shoes.
below: Fox, by Tayla Broekman
below: Girl with a red bandana or kerchief around her neck, by Stephman, aka Stephanie Mannerheim
Photos taken March 2025
All of the pictures in this post were taken on Dundas East, just west of Jones Avenue. Along this stretch of Dundas, garages and backyard fences line the street. Most of them have been painted with bright and cheerful images of flowers, birds, animals, and other living things.
below: There is only one person who would paint a mural with these cute but mischievous raccoons, Emily May Rose
below: Sadly, unsigned and unknown. Two snakes slithering through pink flowers and green grass.
below: La Pupila (aka Valentina) has painted rosy red apples with faces, and even a bite taken out of one of them.
below: Two dog portraits by Jeff Blackburn
below: Red hearts and laughter in a mural by Phillip Saunders
below: A young child with bond curly hair holds a very large pink flower in a painting by Wade Benedict.
below: Picking oranges and watering flowers, working together in the garden in a mural by Golden Butter Murals
below: Making hearts. Long necked ducks or geese beak to beak.
below: White flowers by timmifuk
below: More garage door flowers – this time pink peonies in a vase.
below: Orange lilies by hotsnackz (aka Chrissy Kuiack)
below: Black on colour.
below: Ryan Dineen painted this little bird
below: A young looking loon swims as the sun sets in a mural by Julia Prajka
below: Two red cardinals in flight by Adrian Hayles.
below: A ruby throated hummingbird flies among the fireflies, by Blazeworks.
below: Close up of an abstract mural by Bareket (bkez)
below: Que Rock, butterfly
below: “I’ll be here until you arrive”, a portrait of an older man with a beard, in shades of red, by Jarus
below: Nick Sweetman – a pelican and a flamingo splashing in the water
below: On the right, covering two garage doors, is an aquatic scene by Jarus.
below: This spider painting is signed “Vudu” (Christine Mazzulla?)
below: Another bird flying over a garden full of flowers on a fence painted by Julia Louise Pereira (aka ohlordyitsjulia)
below: A very Toronto sight, by Skamoney
This was a StreetARToronto project
Photos taken June 2026
below: Warburton Lane in central Melbourne was full of stickers and paste-ups including this happy little octopus with a zigzag smile
below: This pile of animals by Kaffeine – with a pink pig in a jaunty vest on top – covers a double door and more
below: About the graffiti on the left – one of the characters that often appears in Mr. Dimples graffiti such as this one, is the fellow with the funny rectangular head – with a button for one eye and a stitched X for the other.
below: A D7606 crayon writes something on the wall while two big eyes watch. But I’m worth it!
below: “Until the wind from the west brings you back again” is in the middle, to the left of a very red T-bonez from Urban Ninja Squadron (peace man!). On the other side there is a cat collage on sheet music by chacha_doune (aka Cha). It’s difficult to see but the train headed your way has “God Save the Queen” written on one of its front corners – That paste up seems to be a collaboration between D7606 and Voxx Romana.
below: White chickens
below: That’s the biggest carrot that I have ever seen! … and the skinniest ankles!
below: … Safety pins and a lot of piercings! This crazy pink haired punk emu is full of holes! Painting by John Murray.
below: Meet Nancy – another John Murray emu
below: This is Effie; she’s obviously related to Nancy!
below: A little bit real in the midst of a lot a fantasy. By Lukas Kasper.
below: More mixing of reality and fantasy – human, animal, and robot with a disturbing outcome.
below: High red shoes and not much else
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below: A lone fisherman surrounded by barbed wire.
below: Angry suburbia
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below: Mr. Dimples again
below: Neftnik’s young woman wears a green outfit with leggings that are blue with red polka dots.
below: That’s a bomb?
below: Up, up, and away – that’s one way for a ladybird to fly away home!
below: A jumble of slaps
below: Peppa Pig, Nemo, a happy flower, and a banana with a face… and more.
below: Potted plants
below: A handful of dripping diamonds
below: Robot heads on circles
below: Portrait of a woman
Photos taken February 2025
below: Bouquets of flowers and balloons. Love and romance and whimsy.
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below: Instead of her umbrella, Mary Poppins is holding a bicycle
below: This green crocodile is dancing pretty in a pink tutu. Love diversity!
below: This penguin has packed its bags and is ready to go home – Tourist go home!
below: Yummy!
below: A kiss, a hammer, and a glass of wine.
below: “Curv a nord inferiore” – Lower north curve, or something like that
below: “Sicily is not Italy”
below: Pulling in two different directions, artwork by Twenty Three
Photos taken February 2026
Joe’s Deli is on the corner of Hertel and Colvin in Buffalo (north of downtown). Two sides of the building are covered with large colourful murals.
below: On the Colvin Street side the mural consists of a lot of stylized flowers mostly in blues and purples.
below: The other side of the building has a second mural. It too has a turquoise background and some of the same floral motifs as the first mural. Both murals were painted by Bunnie Reiss.
below: The old blue sign on the building says Mastmans Kosher Restaurant. Mastmans deli and restaurant closed in 2005 after 60 years in the business.
Photos taken April 2025
below: A dominant feature in Russell Lane is a large yellow and blue mural by Kitt Bennett that runs along the wall of a parking structure.
below: Meet “Princess” with her star wand – a mural commissioned by Melbourne City Council. She stands 24 metres tall in her sneakers. Her pink dress had faded a bit but she is as big and as tall as ever! Painted by Baby Guerilla.
below: There are paste-ups and stencils in some of the doorways – a pink flower in a purple pot along with a number of women.
below: A Kaff-eine mural behind a fence.
below: Keeping an eye on the lane…..
Photos taken March 2025
… The Beverly in Massachusetts that is
below: Large back and white mural by Alex Senna with feet overhanging a parking lot.
below: The large feet also sit above a line of circus themed images. These vignettes, so to speak, are also seen on the other side of the building (a theater). Some of them are shown here.
below: Two clowns.
below: Magic rings
below: Another magician with his props
below: “Welcome to the Golden Theater Beautiful” on one side and “Le Grand David and his Own Spectacular Magic Company” on the other.
below: Appropriately, it was painted on a bicycle store wall. Sadly, the bike shop closed in 2018 after being in business for 70 years. The frog on its bike endures.
below: Mural by Helen Bur and Sam Worthington, “Uprising”
below: This mural is dedicated to Howard Lomen (1959-2004). There are words written on the mural including: “Charles Olson and Vincent Ferrini fire their poetry pistols in a dual at niles beach.” It was painted by his son Erik Lomen. Both Olson and Ferrini (in the black hat) were poets from the Gloucester MA area (just up the coast from Beverly).
below: The blur of headlights in the night, a mural by Dana Woulfe
below: A lively flower arrangement by Hailey Bonia
below: Nowhere over fast and a burning car
below: Stay Calm and Love Your Neighbourhood
below: Stickers on a stop sign including a green snail
Photos taken July 2024
On a small street in the Hongdae neighbourhood of Seoul is a wall of murals painted by Artime Joe
Flowers, animals and little critters on skateboards.
Play! Playground!
Next to the Artime Joe murals is this blue container that has been decorated with monstrous faces. Monsters in pinks and yellows making playful and silly faces, like kids in front of a camera. More playground.
Photos taken September 2024
One of the joys of exploring cities that have organizations and programs that promote good street art, is finding walls that have been a canvas for artists with global reach. In this case, the city of Chicopee (that I suspect many people outside of Massachusetts have never heard of) has a mural by Vhils, aka Alexandre Farto, a Portuguese artist whose work is now found in over 30 countries.
below: A better look at the Vhils work – He hasn’t painted this mural. Instead it has been created using a bas-relief carving technique. The colours in the mural are the colors of the different layers on the wall.
below: A garden of color. Bright red poppies with white and yellow daisies…. Blue hollyhocks and yellow delphinium (I think!) too.
Photos taken July 2024
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