Building a career as a muralist no easy task

Not long after he graduated, Ryan Smeeton learned that a fine-arts degree from university wouldn’t get him into the mural business.
“There’s a catch-22 in getting into this line of work, because no one is going to give you access to a large wall to paint if you’ve never done one before,” said the University of Ottawa grad. “No one wants to end up with a wall that doesn’t look great.”His solution to that dilemma was to leave his full-time carpentry