MODERN HIPPY ART
The Sea Turtle Wall mural in Clearwater Beach, Florida — a mother sea turtle and hatchlings crossing painted sand between blue waves, with Phill Hamilton standing beside it
Wisdom & Art — From Prison 2 Artist

Walls that say something.

Custom murals for homes, businesses, and community walls across Tampa Bay and Florida — painted by Phill Hamilton, built to last, and made to mean something.

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The Walls

Every wall starts as a plain surface and ends as the thing people stop for. These are real commissions, painted across Florida — no two alike, because no two stories are.

The Sea Turtle Wall

Clearwater Beach, FL · 2026
Full view of the Sea Turtle Wall mural — sea turtles hatching and crossing golden sand between painted blue waves
Close-up of the mother sea turtle from the Sea Turtle Wall, painted in vivid greens
Phill Hamilton at work painting a wall

A mother turtle leads her hatchlings from the sand to the water — new life, headed home. Painted on an apartment building wall at Clearwater Beach, with the words worked into the waves: Let God be your guide.

Shipping Container

Plant City, FL · 2025
The side of a shipping container in Plant City painted as a full mural
The shipping container doors painted as part of the mural

A working shipping container, turned into a landmark. Proof that the surface doesn't matter — steel, stucco, or block, a plain box can carry a picture worth slowing down for.

Florida Night

Dunedin, FL · 2025
Florida Night mural — a marlin leaping from dark waves under a full moon, a fisherman casting from a small boat
The Sasquatch painted on the Florida Night door panel — a bigfoot in sunglasses and a trucker hat, carrying a six-pack under a palm tree

The first mural. A marlin breaks the surface under a full moon while a lone fisherman holds the line — Florida after dark, the way it feels from the water. This is the wall where Modern Hippy Art began.

Every wall Cleaned→ Prepped→ Primed→ Painted→ Sealed

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Let's Work Together

No guessing, no surprises. Here's exactly how it works, in plain words.

  1. Tell me about your wall

    Fill out the short inquiry form — where the wall is, how big, indoors or out, and what you're picturing. Photo(s) are required.

  2. See it before it's painted (wall read)

    You see the design rendered on your actual wall before a drop of paint touches it. We adjust it together until it's right.

  3. One firm number

    Walls start at 1500 and grows to size — agreed up front.

    (Grown by arithmetic, not by guesswork — measured, figured, and set before we start.)

    The number we agree on is the number. No creeping add-ons, no surprises halfway through.

  4. Painted to last

    Every wall is cleaned, prepped, primed, painted, and sealed — finished work that's built to hold up in Florida weather.

For Brands

Modern Hippy Art is the work of Phill Hamilton — a Tampa muralist whose story carries as much weight as his paint. He came home from prison, picked the brush back up, and has been turning Florida walls into landmarks ever since. Brands that live in the art world — paint, tools, creative culture — get a real artist, a real story, and an audience that watches the work happen.

@modernhippyart
Instagram — where the walls go up, step by step
303 likes
Top post on Instagram — the work, resonating
22K views
Lifetime views on YouTube — the process, on record

● Product sponsorship

Your paint, cans, or tools in Phill's hands on real walls — used because they're what the work calls for, shown because the process is the content.

● Sponsored wall

A full mural at the full rate, under your name — a community wall your brand made happen, built to be photographed and shared.

● Paid process content

The painting, filmed as it happens — start to finish. Phill's audience follows the process, not just the reveal.

● Ambassador

A longer relationship for brands Phill would use unpaid. If it sits naturally inside the work, it belongs here.

One rule: alignment first. If Phill wouldn't use it in his own work, it doesn't go on the wall. Talk collaborations: (727) 325-0057

The Story

Phill Hamilton seated outdoors beside his neon Heavy Vibez canvas, smiling
Phill with his “Heavy Vibez” canvas.

Modern Hippy Art is wisdom and art, born from a life that had to break open to heal.

I went to prison, and something in me woke up. I came home and did right — but had no direction, until the urge to paint pulled me back, and the lion showed me where it really began.

I wasn’t learning to paint — I was remembering.

What I remembered was already inside me. It only needed the surface to break, and the light came out. That’s the mark: a crack, and the light coming through it. The break isn’t the damage. The break is the healing.

So I paint — murals most of all — because you can’t help anybody until you help yourself first. Then: create and include, and never forget where you come from. On my time. From my heart. Real, no exceptions.

The gift showed up early. In fifth grade, an art teacher saw something in a kid's drawings, told his dad, and entered him in a contest. Then life took its turns — the streets, the loyalty that comes with them, and eventually prison.

After prison came a spiritual awakening. And then, something harder to explain: a pull. An urge to start painting again, out of nowhere — and when he followed it, everything started to unfold. Purpose turned out to be a feeling you can't explain. You just know when it's right, if you pay attention to it.

"I wasn't learning how to paint. I was remembering something."

The painting led to canvases, and the canvases led to walls. Murals became the center of the craft — big, public, impossible to ignore — the Clearwater sea turtles, the Plant City container, Florida Night in Dunedin. Each one says the same thing in a different picture: where you started is not where you have to stay.

From prison to artist is not my marketing. It's my life, and the walls are the proof.

The Mission

Modern Hippy Art is wisdom and art, born from a life that had to break open to heal. I paint — murals most of all — because you can’t help anybody until you help yourself first: I wasn’t learning to paint, I was remembering. The break isn’t the damage; the break is the healing. So I create and include, and never forget where I come from — on my time, from my heart, real, no exceptions.

The Store

Originals one of one hand painted and crafted for uniqueness. Some glow under blacklight, with hidden details that come alive in the dark. Featuring a epoxy series.

The Epoxy Trio

Three originals sealed under clear epoxy resin — the finish gives the color a deep, glassy shine you can see in the light.

Intuitive Abstract Graffiti

(original style created through healing)

Creation in its rawest form.

See the full Intuitive Abstract Graffiti collection →

Each piece holds the emotion it was born from — pain turned into color and light.

Phill Hamilton's handwritten signature — “Hamilton” in black script with a gray loop

Phill Hamilton

Next up

Prints are coming.

The originals are the one-of-ones. Next, the store adds prints — the same pieces, made to reach walls that can't hold an original. And after prints: spray-can art, originals painted on the cans themselves.

View Collection Intuitive Abstract Graffiti — the full collection