Lewis Hobson is the founder of Durham Spray Paints, and he creates beautiful and very large murals for communities and local businesses around the North East. We spoke about Lewis’s move from doing graffiti to doing murals, taking risks, and having the optimism to start new projects without worrying about where they’re going.

I had a lot of fun talking to Lewis about a whole range of unfinished projects, including a climbing YouTube channel, an outdoor community climbing wall, and a series of stories and novels that were inspired by vivid dreams. (The highlights are a Geordie sci-fi novel, a story about humans having wings, and a story about what might happen if a porn site sponsored space exploration.) Towards the end of the episode there’s also an excellent anecdote about a time Lewis went to a poetry night in disguise and then ran into a work colleague.

Find out more about Durham Spray Paints here: www.durhamspraypaints.com, on Facebook here, https://www.facebook.com/DurhamSprayPaints/?ref=page_internal, and on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/durhamspraypaints/?hl=en. 

Lewis's Epic TV episode is here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EIQ7RakpsHw and the buildering map is here.

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unfinishing is presented by Em Anderson and the artwork is by Graham Oakes. If you have an unfinished or private project you’d like to talk about, please email [email protected], contact Em on Twitter @TrueBagglerag, or find Em on Instagram @thebagglerag.