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A series of Nick Miller paintings, created in and around Sligo from the back of a truck, depicts landscape and nature in all its 'mouldy and messy' glory, the artist tells Aidan Dunne

In the mid-1990s, having lived in rural Sligo for a few years, Nick Miller had a dream. "In fact, for a long time I'd had this fantasy of heading across America in a 16-wheel truck big enough to contain a mobile studio and living space. I'd drive and stop and paint." One night he was chatting to his neighbour, the painter Barrie Cooke, and mentioned the idea to him. "That's what made it happen, but made it happen in an entirely different way." Cooke put him in touch with Victor Treacy, a businessman involved in trucking and with a lively interest in contemporary art.