Five Women Setting the Bar High in the World of Murals
Sometimes a wall stops you for a moment, not because it’s loud, but because something about it feels alive to the place around you. This article examines five muralists who create that kind of pause. Their work shows up in airports, city blocks, schools, small businesses, wedding halls, forests rebuilt after storms, and anywhere a blank surface is ready for a story.
Corey Paige brings colour and lift to the busiest public spaces, turning quick doodles from her college years into murals that greet people with a lightness they didn’t know they needed.
Lexi Hannah paints with a steady presence, whether she is chatting with kids on a sidewalk or capturing a couple’s first dance in real time. Her murals emerge from a close attention to moments and the communities they represent.
Sydney Prusso creates large-scale scenes characterised by plants, clean lines, and thoughtful planning. She listens closely to the spaces she works in, giving storefronts, walls, and packaging a quiet sense of belonging.
Chera Creative comes from years of painting after long workdays, slowly building a full-time practice. Her murals settle into a room with calm movement, and she shares everything she knows so others can take the same path with less guesswork.
Heather Clements paints with a sense of curiosity earned through rebuilding her life after a hurricane. Now working in Asheville, she creates walls and interactive pieces that invite people to play, explore, and linger.
Together, these five examples demonstrate how murals can shape the ambience of a place and the way people navigate through it. This piece introduces their routes into the field, the spaces they help transform, and what happens when a simple wall turns into something worth stopping for.
Corey Paige@ coreypaige_designs
Corey Paige paints with joy at the centre of everything she does. What began as doodles in a college dorm at Tulane has grown into work that now meets people in airports, hospitals, neighbourhoods, and public spaces across the country. Her murals feel like a breath — bright colour, playful symbols, and an easy sense of optimism that reaches anyone who walks by.
Corey first gained attention on Instagram, where her upbeat sketch collages caught fire among students and young shoppers. As her following grew, so did the calls from brands and community spaces looking for something fresh and uplifting. Today, you can spot her signature smile icons and cheerful patterns across New York, Miami’s Wynwood district, and beyond, as well as in projects for partners like JetBlue, the Knicks, Dunkin, and Casetify.
What makes Corey stand out in this group of five muralists is not only the scale of her projects but the spirit behind them. She paints with the simple goal of making people feel good, believing that colour and light can shift a day, even for a moment. Her work doesn’t ask for deep analysis; it offers a spark, a grin, a little lift. And sometimes, that is precisely what a wall in a busy world needs.
Lexi Hannah @ lexihannah.art
Lexi Hannah paints with a sense of care you can feel right away. Based in New York, she moves between city streets, community spaces, and wedding dance floors with the same gentle focus: noticing people and moments that matter, then turning them into colour and story. Over the past decade, her murals and live paintings have found homes in schools, neighbourhood blocks, businesses, and celebrations across the country.
What sets Lexi apart is not just her skill, but the way she invites people along for the ride. She often paints in public settings, chatting with curious onlookers, letting kids ask questions, letting couples see their first dance come to life on canvas in real time. On social media, she shares work in progress with a genuine enthusiasm that feels like someone opening the studio door and saying, Come watch, this is the fun part.
Before settling in New York, Lexi spent time travelling and painting throughout South America, learning to adapt to new environments and create wherever she landed. That experience still shows in her murals today: they carry movement, ease, and a quiet confidence that comes from painting outside in changing light, weather, and community.
Among the five women muralists featured together, Lexi brings a sense of tenderness and presence. She does not just fill a wall. She listens to a space. She watches the people who work with her. She paints to mark a moment and honour a place, offering art that feels steady, comforting, and genuinely human.
Sydney Prusso @ sydbloomstudio
Sydney Prusso draws inspiration from the lush surroundings of Tampa to transform walls, packaging, and public spaces into botanical narratives. With a background in graphic design, she brings a flat-illustration style and a collaborative mindset to every assignment. Over more than 50 murals across six states—some stretching up to 75 feet—Sydney’s work invites viewers into expanses of oversized florals and leafy flourishes that quietly anchor a space.
When brands or storefronts come calling, she learns the names and stories behind them, weaving their identity into a broader natural theme so it feels less like “art on display” and more like “art at home.” Whether it’s a boutique’s packaging or a large exterior wall, she treats it with the same attentiveness — sketching, editing, reworking until the piece feels grounded in place.
What makes her stand out in a feature alongside other women muralists is the balance she brings: bold scale matched by tenderness for the specifics of a brief, and modern lines matched by motifs rooted in nature. When someone walks past one of her installations, the feeling is not simply “that’s beautiful,” but “that belongs here.”
Chera Creative @cheracreative
Chera Creative brings a steady warmth to the mural world, along with a story that feels familiar to anyone who has balanced a day job with a dream. She spent years working a corporate schedule while squeezing painting time into nights and weekends, slowly growing her mural practice one wall at a time. Today, she paints full-time in Dallas and helps others follow a similar path through her course, Mural Method.
Chera’s murals often centre on flowers and nature, scaled up in rhythmic forms and easy, flowing movement. Her pieces settle into the walls they inhabit, adding energy without overwhelming the space. Clients are drawn to her clarity and care throughout every phase, from the first sketch to the final coat of paint. She approaches each project not just as a commission, but as a chance to build trust and leave a space feeling more welcoming than before.
One thing that makes Chera stand out among the five women muralists featured here is her commitment to lifting others along with her. She openly shares process, pricing knowledge, materials, mistakes and wins, hoping to shorten the learning curve for the next wave of painters. For many who discover her online, she becomes proof that a creative life can be built patiently, step by step, without needing to abandon responsibilities or rush the journey.
Heather Clements @ heatherclementsart
Heather Clements paints like someone who has lived every chapter and isn’t afraid to turn the page. She grew up near D.C., chasing a future in art, eventually earning her degree at MICA and diving straight into building a creative life in Florida. For years, she worked, taught classes, and poured energy into her community—until a Category 5 hurricane tore through the place she called home, taking her house, studio, and the forests she loved.
Most people would have paused. Heather went to the woods.
She booked a tiny treehouse in the North Georgia mountains, with no internet, no noise, and spent her days hiking and working. She didn’t know if she’d be able to create at all. Instead, she found her way back through paint, paper, and quiet. That week shifted everything, and she carried that spark into the years that followed.
Today, Heather lives in Asheville, surrounded by the trails and trees that steady her, creating murals and interactive pieces that invite people to touch, spin, and play. She creates books with pull-tabs and moving parts, as well as walls featuring turning wooden wheels that allow viewers to change the scene themselves. She is drawn to work that feels alive and a little mischievous, the kind that lets imagination stretch and breathe.
Among five remarkable women muralists, Heather stands out for her curiosity and courage. She doesn’t paint from a polished place. She paints from the climb. From rebuilding. From seeing humour and wonder alongside hurt. Her walls don’t just fill space. They meet people where they are and offer a moment to explore, to feel, to step into something unexpected.
Heather’s story isn’t tidy, and that’s what makes it compelling. She keeps choosing art as a way forward, again and again, and she invites everyone else to do the same.
Getting to know these five muralists feels a bit like walking through a neighbourhood with someone who actually pays attention. Each of them approaches a wall with patience and curiosity, thinking about who passes by, who lives nearby, and what the space already reveals before any paint is applied.
Their work demonstrates how murals can contribute to a place feeling cared for, even in small ways. As you look through their projects, you can see the hours, the choices, the conversations, and the problem-solving that went into every finished wall.
It is steady work, often done in heat, wind, noise, or under tight timelines, yet they keep showing up because they know the result can significantly impact how a space feels for the people who use it every day. If anything stays with you after reading about them, let it be this simple truth: a wall can do more than hold up a building. With the right hands, it can help a community feel seen.
