Environment & art

The style of art I want to work with is definitely environmental.  John Dahlsen has created some amazing pieces using washed up ocean garbage that he has collected from beaches across Australia.  In his artist statement he discusses the dumping of thousands of tonnes of plastics and how important it is for our society to develop and care more deeply about the way in which waste is created and then "dumped".  He is an inspirational artist in terms of his development across several mediums.  He began as an abstract painter and then one day as he was collecting driftwood to create and installation piece from recycling ocean debris he came across masses of washed up plastics and rubbish.  Suddenly he was drawn and inspired to use these things in his art and to make a statement about the environmental impact and our lack of appropriate waste disposal.