Foxy Foxton All Painted Up...

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

We drive into Foxton fully expecting it to be another non-descript small town,  where you arrive in at one end, travel the full length of the main street and leave out the other, the journey having only taken a couple of minutes.

Once again we are delighted to be proven wrong.

Foxton seems to have risen to the challenge to become rivals …

…(or partners), with it’s northern cousin Opunake with respects to art works, as murals are everywhere.

Once again it’s clear we will be pulling over for a photographic tour… but there are far more than I could actually photograph in a realistic time, since for instance down just a single side street  we discover one massive wall of a large DIY  shop that sported (from memory)  four of these alone.

You can just imagine the smile on my face as the van pulls over and I step outside to get some photographs and marvel in the detail  these amazing artists have produced. Yes, I know that the courthouse/museum building doesn’t have a mural on it, but it was a beautiful building  with ornamental stonework and my shutter just couldn’t say “No”…. You know me by now, … a sucker for a building with a pretty face.

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)

(photograph © Kiwidutch)