I'm Maria Galybina, a surface pattern designer based in Lisbon.

For over 17 years I've been creating botanical prints and illustrations for textile, fashion, and lifestyle brands around the world. My work is built around a recognizable visual language of my own — a sense of color, composition, and detail that I've shaped over years of practice, and that runs through every pattern I make. Plants, animals, tropical and exotic species, and the abstract motifs I find in nature — these are the world I keep coming back to.

That world comes into my work as collections. A typical project brings together a coordinated set of repeat patterns with supporting illustrations and lettering — a cohesive visual world ready for an entire product line. I follow what's happening in fashion and interiors closely. What resonates, I bring into my own style — so the work stays current, and unmistakably mine.

Nature is at the heart of everything I make. Lisbon's gardens, greenhouses, and botanical collections are my studio outside the studio — quiet places where plants and people meet. I like spaces where there are people around, but not too loud, so I can sink into the process. What draws me is the dialogue between humans and nature, the closeness, the diversity — and Lisbon gives me all of that, every day.

My cat moves with me wherever I go and has been my quiet companion through every collection. He's been there for every piece of work I've ever made.

For brands

If something in my work speaks to your brand, here's how I work. I license existing designs from my portfolio and develop custom collections on commission. I work with brands worldwide, and what I value most is building long-term collaborations — watching a collection grow season after season, and bringing my prints into the world through the brands that wear them best.

If you'd like to talk about a project, write to me: