Kamloops graffiti artist beautifying the city one dumpster at a time

Nate Doucet is a graffiti artist in Kamloops pictured selling some of his acrylic paintings in the downtown core. Image Credit: SUBMITTED/ Nate Doucet May 12, 2024 – 7:00 AM Anyone who has rolled through Kamloops has no doubt seen the bright artwork of local graffiti artist Nate Doucet. His handiwork is on walls and dumpsters that would otherwise be covered in crude tags and scribbles, adding pops of colour along the streets. He is currently completing a contract with the City of Kamloops. “I’ve been doing the garbage bins around town for ten years and have a pretty good amount of them painted so far,” he said. “Dumpsters selected to get murals on them are heavily tagged up and sometimes worse for wear, if they’re too trashed, they’ll get swapped out for new ones.” Painting a mural on a dumpster is more difficult than what it may look like, the bins are three-dimensional objects with lots of bumps and ridges. Most of the bins Doucet has painted have his own original designs on them he sketches out on paper beforehand. This bin in Kamloops was painted by artist Nate Doucet with the help of two other painters. Image Credit:...