Mantra is a French street artist who lives around the world.

Mantra is a self-taught painter inspired by landscapes in the city and in the countryside. His paintings depict nature, especially butterflies, in a style that is realistic and completely alive. Mantra creates free-hand magnificent murals with the combination of exquisite colors and in-depth background, with the intention to leave his footprints in the urban areas like repeated mantras, hence his nickname.

Mantra travels worldwide to realize large scale murals in Europe, Latin America and the United States in cities such as Vienna, Brussels, New York, Seattle, Quito, and Bogotá, and now Houston through his collaboration with Street Art for Mankind.

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