DEDICATION

For close to ten years now, I’ve been a travelling mural artist. It’s become a way of life. Pack the paint, load the van and head off to wherever the next wall happens to be.

Over those years, I’ve found myself drawn more and more to painting schools in remote locations. There’s something special about taking my work beyond the cities and into smaller communities, sometimes hundreds of kilometres from home. These are places where a mural can completely transform a space, and where the excitement from the kids reminds me why I still love doing this after all these years.

My old van was a huge part of that journey. We covered a lot of kilometres together, and for years it gave me the freedom to travel, work and live on the road. But eventually I wanted to take that idea further.

That’s where the Nitsuabishi came in.

The Nitsuabishi is my travelling studio, accommodation and workhorse all rolled into one. It gets me to the remote locations I want to paint, and if the road turns to dirt or I need four-wheel drive to get there, even better. It carries my paints and equipment, gives me somewhere to sleep, feeds me, showers me and keeps me comfortable while I’m away working on site.

It might sound like a lot of effort just to paint a wall, but for me, that’s part of the dedication to the art.

I wanted to travel with something that gave me the freedom to say yes to projects without worrying too much about where they were. A school out west, a small coastal town, somewhere at the end of a dirt road. If there’s a wall worth painting and a community that wants me there, I want to be able to get there.

After nearly ten years of doing this, I’m still travelling, still painting and still chasing walls in places I may never have visited otherwise. I’ve just built myself a better way of getting there.