“Cast-Net”
Bunche Beach. Fort Myers, FL.
22-Sept.-2025
It was a fair, sunny day in Fort Myers, Florida when I made this painting. We decided to spend the afternoon at Bunche Beach, just a fifteen-minute drive from our place. Bunche isn’t like many of the other coastal beaches—less tourist-lined, a little unkempt and wild. Mangroves dapple the shoreline, and at low tide you can walk quite a ways out across the flats.
I wasn’t living in Fort Myers when Hurricane Ian came through—I moved here about two years later. Much of the coastline had already been rebuilt by then. But nature doesn’t forget so easily….