Crowds of people enjoying the sand and sea of Surf City -most are smiling, some are just absorbed in sitting face towards the sun. This is the art of John T. Meehan III.

Meehan has been vacationing on Long Beach Island since 1985 from his home in Pennsylvania. Being close to Philadelphia, he attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University for a bachelor of fine artsdegree, then went on to get a master’s in fine arts in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.