ART | CREATIVITY

We Gift Creations To Our Friends As We Travel

It is how we spread love as we move around the world

Jillian Amatt - Artistic Voyages
Share Your Creativity
9 min readNov 25, 2024

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A drawing of an Ibex with a mountain, train and small bird in the background.
A fun drawing we made for our Swiss friend as a thank you for his kindness and hospitality when we visited him in Switzerland. Photo Credit: Jillian Amatt — Artistic Voyages

As mural painters and nomads, my partner and I tend to leave artwork behind us wherever we go. However, murals are not the only form of art we leave on our trail.

I have written before about giving my art to friends we meet along the way. It is an excellent way to give them something that will be a lasting reminder of our meeting, and I love seeing their reactions to receiving these pieces from both of us.

The journey in Europe that we are on now has been no different. We have been traveling for almost two months now, and we have left a very visual trail of our time spent with many friends in our wake.

A Small Mural in Belgium

The first piece we left was, in fact, a mural in our Belgian friend's house. He told me one morning that he wanted an elephant painted on his wall, so we did it. I have written everything about it here if you are interested…

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Jillian Amatt - Artistic Voyages
Jillian Amatt - Artistic Voyages

Written by Jillian Amatt - Artistic Voyages

Artist, traveler, foodie, gardener. Owner of publications Sharing Food and Share Your Creativity. A boost nominator - passionate about real writing on Medium.

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