Nellie Windmill is the project of budding Australian mixed media and digital artist, Katherine Herriman.

On Art*

I grew up wanting to do nothing but draw and colour-in. It seems, things have come full circle. In 2008 I discovered mixed media art and what I wanted to be when I grow up. However, it wasn’t until I left my full-time social work job in 2009 to travel around Europe and North Africa in a motorhome with my partner that I began making art in earnest. More recently, I have developed a passion for digitally mixing photography with painting and designing my own line of collage papers.

*I think of the world as cake and art as the icing .

Lynda Andrus (artist)

On Vagabonding*

I’m currently galavanting around Europe and North Africa with my partner, in our motorhome, “Nettle”. Someone long ago once said that the world is like a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. I am an avid reader. I’ve dreamt of travelling for as long as I can remember. Early on my partner and I decided that we don’t want to be tourists, however. We want to truly experience other cultures and get to know people in the countries we visit. We therefore committed to long-term slow travel and currently have no end date for our travels in mind. We’re both building online businesses to support our nomadic lifestyle. We choose what to exchange each day of our life for and have discovered the purest meaning of freedom.

*Vagabonding-n. (1) The act of leaving behind the orderly world to travel independently for an extended period of time. (2) A privately meaningful manner of travel that emphasises creativity, adventure, awareness, simplicity, discovery, independence, realism, self-reliance, and the growth of the spirit. (3) A deliberate way of living that makes freedom to travel possible.

Rolf Potts, “Vagabonding: An uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel”