Joe Seme
Painter | Wilmington, North Carolina
Joe Seme Among Distinguished Artists at 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival
Joe Seme was born in New Jersey in 1946, but has lived most of his life in North Carolina. He is a 1968 graduate of Florida State University with a degree in English and a concentration in American Literature. He served in the Marine Corps and owned a nightclub near Sugar Mountain in the early 70’s. Entirely self taught, he began to paint full tine in 193. After 20 years in the North Carolina mountains, he now lives on a salt marsh in Wilmington.
Seme is well known for his major ‘trompe l’oeil’ (fool the eye) realistic still lie paintings which are carefully researched and set up in his studio and may take three or four months to complete Many of these pieces utilize old books, decoys, guns and other sporting memorbillia from hunting and fishing, baseball, golf and equestrian themes, as well as favorite regional antiques, old corkscrews, tin toys, weathervanes, carousel animals and othe folk art. Joe is a consummate packrat and collector of ‘stuff’ which ultimately ends up in paintings. His studio is like a museum
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Visitors can experience Joe Seme’s work at the 55th Annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland, this November.
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