Climate Changed Blackpool

Acrylic on canvas
50cm x 50cm

Derbyshire based Scapa Joe make climate change art. The collaboration of Caroline Appleyard and Dean Hodson, began in 2019. Caroline has scuba dived for over 25 years and has seen declining fish stocks and increasing plastics. She also paints underwater, including on HMS Royal Oak . Both keen environmentalists, they decided to make sculptures of how the future may look as the climate crisis continues to worsen, in an attempt to try and raise awareness of climate change, deforestation and other global issues.

The underwater environment gives Caroline endless inspiration, and in 2020 she began painting flooded cities filled with underwater creatures. She was recently commissioned to paint a piece for the Shark Trust charity, to sell as a print to raise funds for the protection of shark species around the world.

In 2022, 4 paintings were sold at the Discerning Eye exhibition at Mall Galleries, Caroline also had paintings accepted for Chaiya Art Awards , TALP 2022 ( won British Contemporary Art Award), 2023 The Climate Creatives Challenge ( Commended Entry ) & London Art Biennale 2023.