Scapa Joe
Scapa Joe is a UK based climate change and conservation artist.
A collaboration between artist Caroline Appleyard and photographer/ designer Dean Hodson, whose purpose is to show how wildlife and our planet is being affected by the climate crisis.
Their creativity is inspired by personal experiences, feelings from within, and impressions from the ever-changing environment around us.
Their pieces are displayed in many countries including, Canada, USA, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France and Australia. They also involved with charities donating works to help raise funds.
Caroline, who is responsible for Scapa Joe's painted pieces, is a self-taught painter who scuba dives and paints underwater. Her paintings of the wrecks of HMS Royal Oak and HMS Vanguard, which both sunk in the Scapa Flow, are housed in the Stromness Museum in Orkney.
Themes for Caroline's work with Scapa Joe have been rising sea levels, deforestation, habitat loss, and extinction.
