From Survival to Speed: RAF Engineer Liam Price Builds a New Future Through Art, Motorsport, and Community

Liam Price (Right of the picture) with Neil Fellingham, driver of the Subaru BRZ at the 2025 Race of Remembrance.

For more than 18 years, Corporal Liam Price has served the Royal Air Force with professionalism and quiet dedication. As a Survival Equipment Technician, he has played a vital role in operational safety, ensuring aircrew can rely on their equipment when it matters most.

Throughout his time in service, Liam has deployed to Afghanistan, the Falkland Islands and Cyprus, as well as supporting major international exercises around the world. Now stationed at RAF Benson, Liam is completing his final years of service ahead of transitioning to civilian life in 2027.

The Mental Battle Behind the Military Career

Alongside Liam’s professional achievements runs a quieter, often unseen story of mental health. Like many, he has faced intense pressure, uncertainty, and emotional strain, experiencing both high points and very low ones. He describes his journey as unpredictable: a life of pride and purpose mixed with periods of loneliness, fear, and worry about the future. The transition to civilian life triggered one of his hardest moments, culminating in a panic attack that made him realise how much pressure he had been carrying.

Finding Purpose Through Art and Community

Liam’s journey into art began whilst trying to connect with his son, who has Autism and ADHD. What started as a simple shared activity soon became a powerful source of calm and communication and ultimately much more.

It was during challenging periods with his mental health, that he discovered that art gave him the focus and breathing space he needed. From this, Art in Motion 82 was born: a creative venture blending aviation, motorsport, and movement, and offering a future career path beyond the RAF.

Attending Race of Remembrance (RoR) in Anglesey proved both humbling and uplifting for Liam. Surrounded by serving personnel, and veterans (including those wounded. injured or sick) overcoming immense adversity, Liam found connection, understanding, and renewed motivation for the first time in a long while. Talking about his Race of Remembrance experience, he said, “Seeing what people had overcome physically and mentally, and how motorsport brought everyone together was incredibly motivating,”

Whilst at RoR Liam created beautiful drawings of both the Mission Motorsport Subaru BRZ and the Madza MX-5 which were both signed by all the drivers.

Accelerating Toward a New Future

Liam’s recent experiences have strengthened his ambition to move into the motorsport industry, with his aim set on working for elite teams such as Williams or McLaren. The precision, discipline, and pressure-tested problem-solving he honed over nearly two decades in the RAF align naturally with high-performance engineering.

He now stands at a pivotal moment - still serving but actively building his next chapter with clarity and purpose. His journey is one of resilience and reinvention: gaining discipline through the RAF, connection through his son, healing and direction through art, community through Mission Motorsport, and a future through motorsport where his skills and passions unite.

Liam Price’s story is a powerful reminder that the end of one chapter is simply the start of another.

Created specially to raise money for Mission Motorsport, Liam drew the Poppy Jag with the RAF Valley Hawk jets from the Invitational. A limited print run, they are available to purchase for £20 and are available on our Merchandise Shop.

Find out more and follow Liam on Instagram here @artinmotion82