About the One Love Mural Project

The One Love Mural project is an international collaboration of 63 artists from 15 countries who volunteered to create original marquetry pictures based on the theme “Make Believe.” These pictures were then assembled to produce a three-panel mural that was donated to Texas Children’s Hospital in Austin, Texas. The mural is intended to provide an uplifting healing environment for young patients and their families as well as increasing public awareness of marquetry art.

Marquetry, often called painting with wood, is an art form that utilizes thin wood veneers or other suitable materials to create inlayed pictures or decorative designs. Each artist who contributed to the mural created an 8-inch square picture composed of naturally occurring or dyed wood that was carefully cut and joined together to create their fantasy picture.

The mural was assembled by Cindy Goldman, Jeff Grossman, and Spider Johnson. They installed it near the Ronald McDonald House section of the Hospital on August 29, 2026.