Mr Peel | Indoor Mural Design & Execution

A calligraphy pen rests on paper beside several elegant, hand-lettered cursive capital letters.
A collection of black-and-white botanical sketches showing pine tree branches, needles, and a small pinecone.
Calligraphy practice featuring sheets with intricate flourished letters and two pens resting on a desk.
A close-up of red ink swirling across a wooden surface, partially filled in with linework sketches on a craft mat.
Calligraphic lettering practice on paper with sketches, finished ink letters, and a pen on a white surface.
A black and white image shows a hand-drawn calligraphy sketch on grid paper with a pen resting on the side.
Two vertical paper strips feature elaborate, ornate black calligraphy and sketch-like patterns on a white background.
Six skateboards with diverse typographic and decorative art designs mounted in a row against a plain white wall.
Two skateboard decks with white backgrounds and intricate red and blue abstract calligraphy designs, resting on wood.

Custom large-scale mural

Rick and Nicole commissioned me a mural for Mr Peel Cafe in Collingwood, Melbourne. The briefing was creating an organic shape in black and white displaying specific ingredients from Mr Peel’s menu. The client suggested designing a beautifully organic form that was not necessarily obvious to recognise at first glance.


I wrote down a list of herbs and ingredients mentioned in our meeting and I decided to go with lemon flowers, lemons (as the branding colour is yellow) and celery.


I presented my first sketch of the mural to the client. Looking for something more minimalistic, Nicole and Rick simplified my proposal suggesting to only use the celery leaves. I updated the sketch and they signed off on the mural.


  • Dimensions: The mural is nearly 4 x 4 metres
  • Materials: Posca permanent markers

Services

Illustration

Original artwork

Industries

Hospitality

Credits

Designer: Maria Montes
Client: Rick and Nicole England
Retail store: Mr Peel Cafe