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Nora Bruhn is an artist based in San Francisco. She finds herself with one foot in the city and the other in the forests, deserts, and waterways of California. Her work became widely recognized after being one of the first artists to paint a mural on a boarded-up building at the chaotic beginning of the pandemic. This mural gave people hope, and the public’s feedback demonstrated how essential art really is. She paints large-scale florals cast in dramatic lighting. She emphasizes the diversity in texture, transparency, and contour of flower petals. She labors over color and represents every hue she finds. Her composition accentuates the most compelling aspects of the flowers, offering viewers a captivating and immersive experience.
Once in San Francisco, she fell in love with murals. “There is nothing quite like the alchemy of taking a mundane and characterless wall and transforming it into something spectacular.” Says Nora. In 2015, she dove into the San Francisco art scene and, within three years, was painting professionally full-time. In those three years, she painted many canvases and 60 murals around the United States and Europe and won two painting competitions and an art residency at Takt Art Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany.
She now runs a community art studio in San Francisco called the Nest and has taken to painting canvases as well. She works with acrylic paint and soft pastel. She states, “my North Star is to remind people through my art that the exquisite, life-affirming beauty of nature is always available, all one must do is look.”
