7 Real Singapore Murals: From a Fintech Office Launch to a Preschool Forest Wall

Our first look at Singapore mural artists covered a seafood restaurant, a temple sketch and a corporate handprint tree – and it turned out the pool of real, completed Book an Artist commissions here was deep enough to fill a second article without repeating a single project. This time the throughline is variety of place: a fintech scaleup dressing up its new office, a Montessori preschool wanting something better than bare paint, a pasta restaurant that wanted its whole menu on the wall, and homeowners turning a spare corner, a study window and a bedroom wall into something worth looking at every day.

As with the first article, every project below has a real invoice, a finished and photographed mural, and – where the client left one – a genuine review. We went back through Singapore’s order history a second time rather than assume anything held over from the first pass was pre-cleared; two candidates that looked promising on paper were set aside again this run for weak completion evidence. What’s left is seven jobs that cleared every check, from a five-figure office launch down to a few-hundred-dollar accent wall.

Offices that made a statement

Singapore’s office murals tend to be about arrival – a new lease, a rebrand, a visiting executive – and these two show it at opposite ends of the budget scale.

A fintech’s welcome to Singapore

When the San Francisco-based equity management platform Carta opened a Singapore office, they wanted the entrance foyer to say something specific: professionalism, energy, and the company’s Asia-Pacific reach. Artist Neha built a wide illustrated mural spanning the wall in the company’s own brand palette – desks, laptops, a rocket ship, a wall of team headshots and the Carta wordmark boxed in black – on a tight two-week turnaround. It’s the largest verified budget in this article, in the S$3,500 – S$6,000 range.

A doodled café wall for an office pantry

Not every office mural needs a brief this literal. When a Singapore workplace wanted to liven up its pantry and breakout corner, artist Qin covered a concrete-look feature wall in loose, hand-drawn café doodles – a coffee cup, a burger, popcorn, a “you are amazing” scribble – in black line work against grey. It reads like a chalkboard menu that got a little carried away, and it’s exactly the kind of low-cost, high-personality job that suits a shared kitchen: S$600 – S$1,000.

A restaurant and a preschool

Commercial murals in Singapore aren’t all corporate – some of the best briefs come from small businesses wanting a wall that does double duty as decor and conversation piece.

An edible map of Italy

Bella Pasta wanted something for the plain wall above its banquette seating – not wall-to-wall coverage, just enough to signal what the restaurant is about. Artist Anna painted the outline of Italy filled edge to edge with the country’s culinary landmarks: a glass of wine, olives, a plate of orecchiette, a wedge of parmesan, lemons on the branch, and the restaurant’s own script logo across the top. The client’s review called it exactly what the space needed: patient, responsive, and “talented with scenery.” A tidy S$300 – S$600 commission.

A forest corner for a Montessori preschool

Little Kinder Montessori asked Anna for a mural referencing California’s giant sequoia forests – a nod to the towering redwood scenes in the school’s own teaching material – wrapped around a window in a play corner. The finished wall drew a crowd of its own: according to the client’s review, passers-by stopped to film Anna at work, and “even the cars drove slower.” A modest school budget of S$400-  S$800 for a mural that will outlast several intakes of students.

Homes across Singapore

The residential briefs are where Singapore’s apartment layouts get creative – a windowless study, a spare accent wall, a request that started as “a world map” and became a small geography lesson.

A sea view for a windowless study

Helen turned a converted powder room into a home office, and its back wall – solid marble, no actual window – needed to feel less like a box. Neha painted a trompe-l’œil window frame thrown open onto a beach view: blue sky, breaking waves, sand and a path through flowering shrubs either side, ceiling downlight and air-con unit worked into the composition rather than around it. The result reads as a genuine sightline rather than a poster, for S$1,200 – S$2,200.

A jellyfish, drifting across a living room wall

One Singapore homeowner wanted a jellyfish as the centrepiece of the home – not cartoonish, they were clear, but properly “cool.” The finished wall, sprayed in blended watercolour-style pinks, teals and purples, trails long ribboned tentacles most of the way across the room, fading out at the edges rather than stopping at a hard border. It’s the kind of single-subject statement wall that works because there’s nothing else competing with it: S$700 – S$1,300.

A world map, one country at a time

Dion’s brief was simple on paper – a world map with an icon for each country – and much bigger in practice once Neha started blocking out continents by hand across the wall. The finished piece colours every country individually and threads in small painted landmarks (a lighthouse, a temple, city skylines) rather than leaving it as flat cartography. The client’s review singled out how accommodating the process was: Neha “made the trip back to amend small details” after the first pass. A compact S$400 – S$800 commission with an outsized amount of detail in it.

What did these seven Singapore murals cost?

Based on these seven real commissions, alongside the eleven from our first Singapore article, here’s roughly how budgets land by project type:

A pattern from both Singapore articles: office jobs on a launch deadline command the biggest budgets, while the most charming small-budget work often comes from a client with a very specific, very personal brief – a jellyfish, a sea view, a map with one country missing.

How to hire a muralist in Singapore

These seven briefs ranged from “paint this exact design” to “we like your jellyfish work, surprise us.” Both approaches worked. A few things that helped along the way:

1. Share the wall’s quirks, not just its size. An air-con unit, a downlight, a real window frame — the strongest results here worked those obstacles into the design instead of avoiding them.
2. Say who else will see it. A preschool play corner, an office pantry and a client-facing foyer all called for different levels of polish and durability – tell your artist which one you’re commissioning.
3. Bring a reference if you have one, but don’t over-specify. The clearest briefs above (a jellyfish, a map, a sequoia forest) left room for the artist’s own composition rather than dictating every element.
4. Expect a deposit and a design pass before paint goes on the wall. Every project here followed a deposit-then-balance structure, with a sketch or mock-up stage in between.
5. Compare artists in one place. Every mural in this article was commissioned through Book an Artist’s Singapore mural artists page, where you can browse portfolios and message artists directly.

Frequently asked questions

Can a mural be designed to match our logo or brand colours?

Yes – the Carta office mural and the Bella Pasta food map both incorporated the client’s own branding directly into the artwork, and it’s a common request for commercial commissions.

Who handles wall preparation and paint for a Singapore mural?

In these projects, the artist’s quote typically bundled materials and any minor surface prep. Larger prep jobs (patching, sanding a very uneven wall) are usually agreed separately before the quote is finalised.

How long does a typical mural commission take from enquiry to finished wall?

Most of the projects above moved from an initial message to a finished, photographed mural within a few weeks, including a design/approval round – though a tight deadline, like the Carta office launch, can be compressed into days when needed.