BUDAPEST | HUNGARY
2021

Retro Lángos

Retro Lángos is a small Hungarian bistro in the very heart of Budapest.

They mainly prepare lángos (Hungarian fried dough), a traditional Hungarian dish, spiced up with special toppings. They started their business as a roadside food truck over 10 years ago, and when they had the opportunity to move into an actual streetfront shop, they asked me to decorate the walls with a giant mural covering more than 60 square metres.

SINGAPORE
2018

Tribe Theory

Singapore is currently experiencing a moment when public art is beginning to find its place on the streets. Besides many visually comforting pieces, there are also murals that refer to the city’s history and aspects of local life.

However, while walking around after my arrival, I found it confusing to see so many beautiful artworks introducing the great men of Singapore, yet not finding a single piece celebrating women. So I decided to create a tribute to all the strong, smart, and hardworking women who have contributed to everyday life with just as much effort as men, even though their voices are often not heard.

With this artwork, I hoped to balance the representation of genders in public space a little, and to give support to the current and upcoming generations of women who pass by this mural.

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BUDAPEST | HUNGARY
2022

Kifli

Kifli.hu is a fast-growing startup that aims to make home delivery greener and more sustainable than other companies. Their profile mainly focuses on close-to-expiry food and personal care products, which they offer to deliver to homes at discounted prices, helping to reduce food waste in the city.

In February 2022, they asked me to paint a mural in their newly opened office in Budapest. As this project was highly commercial, it was important to follow their brand identity guidelines while also incorporating their motto and the “key ingredients” of their business into the image. They asked me to reflect their environmentally friendly and green-thinking business model in the visual, and also to include some of their products and their main customers.

This project was special to me as it gave me the opportunity to combine my graphic designer side with my painting practice.

BANGALORE | INDIA
2017

Construkt

Some fun doodling for the Construkt Hostel in Bangalore, India.

The place operates as an incubator house for startup creators and entrepreneurs, providing both co-living and co-working spaces.

COLOMBO | SRI LANKA
2017

Bunkyard Hostel

In April 2017, I spent a month in Sri Lanka and luckily joined the Artist-in-Residence program at Bunkyard Hostel.

I painted a mural on their upper floor—not only to decorate the space, but also to work with the visual impressions I gathered while traveling across the country.

MESRIN | TURKEY
2016

Café Rail

I spent September 2016 in Mersin, Turkey, where I was hosted by a feminist–anarchist–Marxist–communist–pacifist activist group of Kurds as the resident painter of Café Rail Mersin.

The café aims to host travelers, artists, thinkers, and activists, creating a safe space where they can talk, create, and collaborate to make the world a better place.

I was given complete freedom to leave my fingerprint behind, and I spent three weeks painting a mural on one of the café’s walls, processing the memories and impressions of the previous eleven months of travel—the moments of my journey from Portugal to Turkey. The scenes we all share while traveling long term: hitchhiking, sleeping in nature, getting lost, meeting amazing people, falling in love, arriving and leaving. Everyone’s and no one’s story on the road.

BANGKOK | THAILAND
2018

There Bar

There Bar is a tiny garden café hidden behind a canal in downtown Bangkok.

The bar is located a bit off the beaten path, which makes it difficult to find. I was asked to paint a mural on the wall connecting the street to the entrance of the bar, helping make it more visible for newly arriving guests. What made this project different from the others was that it took place during the monsoon season, and catching the short windows between dry and rainy hours during the day created some challenges during the process.

Anyway, it turned out nicely in the end.

GEORGETOWN, PENANG,
MALAYSIA, 2018

George Bar

George Bar is located in the old town of Georgetown on Penang Island, Malaysia. They run what could best be described as a fusion-kitchen bistro, combining traditional Malay flavours and ingredients with Western dishes.

When they asked me to paint a mural in their bar area, they already had the idea of showcasing a variety of their dishes on the wall. They encouraged me to experiment with edgy and highly stylised forms and shapes, and to use bright colours to create an accent wall for the space.

GEORGETOWN, PENANG,
MALAYSIA, 2018

Angmoh

Angmoh Hostel is located in the Chinatown area of Georgetown, Malaysia. It’s best known as one of those party hostels where people sleep less and socialise more.

When they asked me to paint a mural on their lobby wall, they already had the idea of including the zodiac signs of the Chinese calendar in the pattern. They asked me to create the design in such an abstract way that people would need to spend some time looking at it to figure out which shape represents which zodiac sign.

I really enjoyed this project because it required a very different way of thinking about colours and forms than I was used to. I loved working with large lines and bold colour patches, and because of its uniqueness it became one of my favourite murals to work on.