This mural was created for the foyer of the Evans Bay Intermediate School, which opened in 1964. It remains in its original location.

The painting is unusual within Drawbridge’s oeuvre as it was created during a phase when he was primarily producing highly abstracted works.

The composition features an underlying collage of shapes in a blue-grey tonal spectrum–possibly inspired by the school’s uniform colours–overlaid with abstracted renderings of a variety of features of Evans Bay and its surrounds including yachts, cargo ships, aeroplanes, rugby goal posts, and other built features relating to the aviation and marine environs.

A preparatory collage for the mural is held by Archives NZ.