“Everywhere I go, I have to create art,” said Erin Scott while giving a tour of her studio at the corner of Central Avenue and Second Street in Barnegat Light. In the studio are 3D sculptures of the lighthouse, waves, starfish and marine turtles cut from sheets of PVC and attached to weathered picket fencing. Also on display are large, wooden stars made from telephone wire spools that she made in Texas and intricate designs cut into coconut shells made while she lived on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico.

Each artwork brings back memories of her travels. “I get attached to the work I do. I do it for pleasure.”