John Brock Art Alcove

 

July 2024

 

July’s featured artist in the John Brock Art Alcove is Mikell Herrick!

Mikell Herrick is a self-taught photographer who takes most of her pictures right in her Dunedin backyard, on the shore of Lake Rhonda, with a focus on the many birds that visit her every day, including egrets, herons, Anhingas, Wood Storks, Ibises, and many others. After moving to Dunedin in 2014, she turned her lifelong passion for taking pictures into a happy retirement “career” and a daily quest to capture the world around her. Her images, offered for sale as prints and note cards, reveal intimate views of wildlife, beautiful scenes of nature, and even the amusing antics of the squirrels and cats that call her place home. She also enjoys the opportunity to document in pictures some of our areas most photographable events, such as the Dunedin Fine Art Center’s annual Wearable Art and Garden Party as well as many other local celebrations, and shares her work in public albums on Facebook and Instagram. As a new Sunshine State resident, she also took up painting Palm fronds and seed pods, recycling this native “yard waste” into a variety of colorful & whimsical fish and masks, to become iconic Florida art.