Self-taught artist behind amazing displays popping up in Jacksonville Beach

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – Positively Jax. One section creator is brightening up the River City with art. The antheral down the unsocial pieces popping up astir municipality is Scotie Cousin.

“I truly bash emotion this metropolis and I anticipation it shows,” self-taught creator Scotie Cousin said.

Cousin has been making creation for astir 45 years, but successful 2020, his nature-themed sculptures, sand, and chalk designs started generating attraction similar they ne'er had before.

“People that are having problems similar radical with sickness, dementia, a batch of different antithetic things that hap successful beingness that aren’t truthful nice. Their relatives scope out. Hospitals person reached out, to benignant of augment the surroundings a small spot to make a grin and lighten their load a small bit,” said Cousin. “I anticipation that they consciousness a batch little load connected their shoulders. Where it benignant of gives them a small intermission and makes idiosyncratic consciousness that someone’s reasoning astir them different than each the superior worldly you person to deliberation astir passim the day.”

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These are a fewer of the galore pieces Cousin has installed astir Jacksonville; shark and angiosperm sculptures connected the beaches, chalk creation successful section neighborhoods, and this vertebrate portion precocious enactment up successful trees adjacent Atlantic Beach.

The sculptures are made from integrative and different recyclable materials.

“I emotion this assemblage and I similar doing things similar this to effort and mold a assemblage everyone wants to beryllium in,” said Cousin.

You tin find much of Cousin’s creation astatine Atlantic Beach Arts Market located connected 1805 Mayport Road. You tin travel Cousin connected his societal media tool.

Facebook: Scotie Cousin | Instagram: @scotiecousin

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