The Wall Shawl studio with natural light falling across a worktable, rolls of wallpaper paper, and design tools

A quiet studio. Rolls of paper. A wall waiting to become something.

Akanksha Panday at her studio desk, reviewing a mural composition in natural light

Akanksha Panday

I started designing wallpapers for Indian brands -- repeating patterns, geometric tiles, the kind of work that fits neatly into a catalogue. But scenic murals pulled me in a different direction. A mural is not a pattern. It does not tile. It does not repeat. It is a single, continuous composition designed for one specific wall.

That distinction changed everything about how I work. A misty forest on a 16-foot dining room wall is a completely different composition than the same forest on an 8-foot bedroom wall. The proportions shift. The focal points migrate. The trees need different spacing, the mist needs a different density, the light falls at a different angle. Every wall is a different canvas.

From my studio in India, I design scenic murals for walls in Brooklyn, London, Dubai, and Melbourne. I work on an HP Latex 630W -- a wide-format printer that produces archival-quality output on cotton rag and nonwoven media. The printed result has the softness and depth of hand-painted wallpaper at a fraction of the cost.

The same garden looks different on every wall. That difference is what I design for.

Macro detail of ink meeting paper, showing visible brushstroke quality and pigment texture Close-up of a painted botanical branch showing delicate petal detail and colour gradation Paper texture with visible cotton fibre and surface grain under raking light

Each mural is printed on archival-grade nonwoven media -- the same material used by heritage wallpaper houses. The HP Latex ink system produces colours with the softness of watercolour and the permanence of pigment print. Up close, you see texture, grain, the subtle warmth of a natural substrate. From across the room, you see a painting on your wall.

Every wall is unique

I never resize a design to fit. I recompose it.

Craft over catalogue

Each mural is composed individually. There is no template.

Accessible by design

Custom scenic murals should not cost thousands of dollars.