Muralist Eleanor Yates has spent the past 10 years on the road, painting murals of Honora (Nano) Nagle, founder of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ireland.
St Peter Chanel School in Green Island is one of the many schools founded by the Presentation Sisters.
Ms Yates often works for months at a time designing, planning and painting the murals of the founder in places of worship, as well as poverty-stricken schools and neighbourhoods, in a bid to inspire imagination, joy and conscience on a broad scale through visual storytelling.
She is attributed with creating the second largest mural in the United States, on the Energy Systems Building in Omaha, Nebraska, and spends up to a year and a-half creating them.
Spending long periods of time working on murals, Ms Yates said she had learnt living in the community was the best way to capture the character and history of the area.
The American-born artist lives a nomadic lifestyle, with nowhere to call home, and never really knowing where her next mural will be, until an opportunity presents itself.
"Sometimes I get tired of living on the road. But when I get a paintbrush in my hand, the art takes over and I realise how much I love it."
Ms Yates is in Green Island only for three days to paint her latest mural, which will feature Nano Nagle and a pupil from St Peter Chanel School.
"One of the kids will be in the mural - I'll have to flip a coin to choose which one."
Ms Yates said the mural would be one of her quicker projects because she had to be in Tasmania by Saturday, to compete in the Sheffield International Mural Festival.
She is one of nine finalists in the competition, in which she will have six days to create a wall-sized masterpiece.
"My work here [at St Peter Chanel] is a practice run for the festival," she said.
