The mural by Eric Minckley gives a sense of place and show that « this isn’t a drive-through » but a destination.
Erin Minckley drew inspiration for her Mayfair mural by walking through the North Side neighborhood on spring and summer days and shooting phone photos of the flowers.
Now, the Mayfair resident and custom wallpaper designer shows off the flowers in her “Welcome to Mayfair” mural at 4219 W. Lawrence Ave. on the side of Relativity Textiles, the business that she owns.
“I literally was walking Mayfair and taking the flora of the neighborhood and incorporating it in,” she says. “In Chicago, when it’s winter, we need something to boost our mood. And we need to see color, and we need to see flowers and organic things. Otherwise it’s quite drab.”
In the summer, she says, “the blue at the top of the mural matches the sky.”
Minckley spent time over the summers of 2023 and 2024 painting the mural, which features orange lilies, pink tulips, lavender irises, purple lavender and more.
