Belltown
Belltown's dense urban blocks between downtown and the waterfront made it one of Seattle's original street art hotspots — artists were painting here when the neighborhood was still cheap enough to have studios on every floor. Today the mural scene is more commissioned and curated, but the concentration of large-format work on its walls makes Belltown a must-walk corridor for any mural enthusiast visiting the Pacific Northwest.
Featured Artists
All artists →Greg Gossel
Minneapolis-based artist who has become one of Seattle's most visible visiting muralists. "Puget Sound" on 2nd Avenue was commissioned as part of Seattle's Art in the City program — a graphic abstraction of Puget Sound's tidal patterns rendered in his signature layered, newspaper-print-influenced style, the water's movement captured in overlapping geometric planes.
Ouizi
Detroit-based artist Louise Chen, known as Ouizi, creates luminous large-scale botanical murals that transform building facades into floral environments. "Rain City" on Blanchard Street features the native plants of the Pacific Northwest rain ecosystem — ferns, salal, sword ferns, and trilliums — rendered at architectural scale in deep greens and misty whites that evoke the light conditions of Seattle in November.
Roa
"Night Heron" on Bell Street is one of Roa's most Seattle-specific works — the black-crowned night heron is a resident species of the nearby waterfront, and Roa painted it at three-story scale in his signature monochrome style on a wall facing Elliott Bay. The bird's stillness amid Belltown's density creates the kind of unexpected natural presence that defines the best of Roa's site-specific practice.