Monstera & Houseplant Wall Art
A piece of the wild, drawn flat and hung above the pots: monstera, fern and jade.
Monstera and houseplant wall art is the one plant that never needs watering. It stays green in January. It drops nothing on the floor. And it goes where a pot cannot, which is up the wall at eye level.
I drew the monstera, the fern and the jade from plants on my own desk. Each leaf was cut and laid flat, so the whole shape shows at once. Hung above the pots, they turn a shelf of houseplants into a corner that feels tended and alive. They sit inside the wider botanical art prints range.
The one plant that never needs watering. Monstera, fern and jade, drawn flat so the whole leaf shows. Hang them above the pots rather than among them. From €41.
Key Facts
| The three plates | Swiss Cheese Plant (Monstera), Fern, Jade Plant |
| What it adds | Structure a living plant hides: the whole leaf, flat |
| Placement | Above the planting, not level with it |
| Naming | Swiss Cheese Plant and Monstera deliciosa are one plant |
| Framing | Slim oak or black, narrow mount. A dry room, so glazing is fine |
| Collection | Workspace Green holds all three |
The houseplant studies
See the collection ›The monstera is the one everybody comes for, and the fenestrations are the whole subject. The fern is its opposite: no single shape, only rhythm, which is what stops the trio being three silhouettes.
The jade plant is the small dense one. It earns its place by being the only study in the group you could hold in one hand. Scale variety is what makes a plant wall read as a collection rather than a pattern.
Green that keeps going
A drawing gives you the thing a living plant keeps hiding. The leaf lies flat. It holds still. The whole shape is there at once, cut edges and veins, at a size you can read across the room.
It is also why a study belongs above the pots rather than among them. The plants do movement, mess and light. The studies do structure. Put them together and the corner stops being a shelf of plants and starts being a scheme.
Pairing art with real plants
Hang above the planting, not level with it. A frame sitting among the leaves gets read as another pot and disappears. Lifted clear, it becomes the thing the plants are arranged underneath.
Do not match the drawing to the plant below it. A monstera study directly above a monstera is a caption. Put the fern above the monstera, and the monstera above a shelf of small pots, and the wall stops explaining itself.
Framing and placement
A plant room is a dry room, so glazing is fine and there is no case for canvas here. Slim oak or black with a narrow mount keeps the frame out of the way of the foliage, which is already doing plenty of visual work.
Watch the watering line. Anything hung directly above a plant you water from above will eventually get splashed, and a mount wicks. Offset the frame, or water from below.
The same three studies scale up beyond a living room. A café, a shop, a guest house or a co-working floor all plant heavily and then leave the wall above it bare. That is the same job, in a bigger room.
Drawing the monstera (Swiss Cheese Plant)
The monstera came from a houseplant that had finally thrown a properly fenestrated leaf, which takes a few years. I cut it, laid it flat, and drew it over one long sitting.
The cut edges are the entire drawing. A monstera leaf without its holes is a philodendron. The holes are not random either: they run in relation to the veins, and getting that relationship wrong is the fastest way to make a monstera look invented.
View the print ›Questions people ask
What art suits a houseplant or biophilic room?
Drawn studies rather than photographs. A drawing flattens the leaf and shows structure the living plant hides, so it adds something instead of competing with the pot underneath it.
Does botanical art work alongside real plants?
Yes, if it hangs above the planting rather than among it. A frame level with the leaves reads as another pot. Lifted clear, it becomes the thing the plants are arranged beneath.
What is the difference between monstera and Swiss cheese plant?
They are the same plant. Monstera deliciosa is the botanical name and Swiss cheese plant is the common name, both describing the fenestrated leaves. The study is catalogued under Swiss Cheese Plant and titled with the Latin.
How do I style plant art with foliage?
Avoid hanging a study directly above the same species, which reads as a caption. Mix the scale instead, and keep the frames slim so they stay out of the way of the leaves.
How do I get these as prints?
Each study is printed and shipped worldwide by Saatchi Art. Paper starts at €41, up to 76 by 102 cm.
Green, structural, drawn flat
Monstera, fern and jade all sit in Workspace Green, the collection built around green structural plants, alongside the juniper, the hydrangea and the cotton plant.
Printing it yourself? The houseplant set is a digital download on Etsy.
Original botanical art by Fiurdelin · archival giclée from €41 · framed & shipped worldwide via Saatchi Art