Hazel Oakes and Melanie Saggs with  their mural, Get Out Of Your Head and into Nature [Simon Lamrock]

A PSYCHEDELIC mural celebrating women and nature’s influence on mental health has sprung up in Euston.

For International Women’s Day in March, street artists Hazel Oakes, 33, and Melanie Saggs, 34, have painted a mural of a woman’s face with bright flowers blooming out of her head and into a forest onto a building in Euston Road.

The site was previously used for a mural depicting the Lionesses following their Euros win last year.

Ms Saggs, from Oxfordshire, said: “We both have a very strong theme in our work. It’s very colourful and we both use art and physical activity to get out of our heads. The idea of the mural is to get out of your head into nature, so the blue woman is jumping out of a crowded head into the trees.”

Ms Oakes, of County Durham, said the project was a perfect fit because “all of [her] artwork is about empowering women”.

She said the mural also represents women coming together and forming a community even in a new place.

While underground street art has been replaced with corporate ads, Ms Oakes said she “loves Camden and the scene there too”.

She added: “Back in the day people used to paint ads, it’s nice to see ads being painted again rather than posters. We collaborated with Global Street Art Agency for the mural. They have commercial clients who do all the big painted ads, but they use that money to fund artists’ creative projects.”

Global Street Art agency provided the paints, scaffolding and sorted the logistics.

Ms Saggs said there are “quite a lot of women” in the street art scene, adding: “It’s definitely getting better but we’ve got a way to go.”