Global Warming is Real encaustic art exhibit

This blog is about my first piece of political statement art ever, which was just accepted into the international competition "Global Warming is Real” at the Museum of Encaustic Art outside of Santa Fe, NM. The painting depicts the loss of the iconic fishing shacks at Fisherman’s Point near Willard Beach in South Portland, Maine during the January 2024 storm surge. The painting depicts one of the shacks as it is being swept away. I embedded navigational charts of Casco Bay into the walls and piers to symbolize the structure being claimed by the waters.   

I also talk about my early days fishing on the waters of Buzzards Bay, off of New Bedford, Massachusetts.