The self-taught artist behind giant flower installations in Singapore
Koh Pei Li turned her love of art and flowers into a career, creating botanical sculptures under her brand PeiPer for public spaces as well as retail labels.
The 41-year-old made her first paper flower creation – a hongbao box – for her 2014 wedding, setting the stage to become a paper and mixed media artist.
She left her corporate job in 2016 to focus on motherhood and gradually built her wedding side hustle into a full-time creative business.
During the pandemic, she began sharing craft projects online and teaching small classes from home, leading to PeiPer and PeiPer Arts School in 2022.
Her first piece was for Millenia Walk and she has since created giant artworks for Gardens by the Bay, Paragon, Changi Airport and luxury retail brands.
Each installation begins as a true-to-scale paper sculpture before being scaled up using materials such as aluminium, foam, organza, fur, sand and paper.
For Gardens by the Bay, she recreated blooms like the Manuka flower and waratah through research and guidance from horticulturists.
Koh’s installation for Paragon, Blooming Windmill, ran from April to June 2025 and is now a permanent installation at Alexandra Hospital.
Her current artwork, Echoes In Bloom: A Bridge Between Time, commissioned by Asian Civilisations Museum, can be seen at Cavenagh Bridge until Feb 28, 2026.
