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Michael's painting above was exhibited at the New England watercolor Society's 14th Biennial North American Open juried show in 2014 at the Plymouth Center for the Arts, in Massachusetts. This is a painting Michael did of Mr. L. Brackett, a lobsterman who owns the Fish House Fish Market on Monhegan Island at Fish Beach with his sons. Long standing natives of Monhegan Island, the Brackett family sell amazing lobster dinners, fresh fish and chowders that you can eat at their picnic tables right on the shore with an excellent view of the harbor. Here Mr. Brackett is emptying the leftover shells onto to the beach beyond the getty to the ravenous gulls. Michael says, "Many of my figurative subjects occur over the course of a few minutes. I tried to capture that precious moment when both the figure and gulls in their natural environment complemented each other."