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Nick Mayer's watercolors are large, colorful and stunningly beautiful. Read about his journey from his childhood sketchbook to becoming a full time artist.

Recently Belgian Roland Henrion started focusing more on his art, and that made him a candidate for our fishy artists series.

South African artist Gavin Erwin paints wonderful pictures of fish and fishing - some colorful and abstract, some very naturalistic.

I first noticed Travis' brilliant and colorful art on Facbook and we became online friends

Taylor Garman had a very impressive display of her artwork at the Art of Angling show in Danbury and was interested in working on an article

Scrimshaw is a very old art form, with the old Eskimos and whalers having practiced this art and used it for passing time and decorating

Beautiful leather handcraft by Lithuania based Arturas Merkevicius

Italian artist Renato Rizzo draws beautiful, simple but still very complex and detailed black and white pictures of flies

Dutch Rudy van Duijnhoven is a well known freelance writer and photographer in the northern European fishing community

Nikola Novovic IS from the small country Montenegro, at the Mediterranean in southern Europe

Canadian Silver Tip Fly Company makes printed fly-tying materials with a high degree of realism and can supply wings, shells and much more, ready to tie with. We asked some questions.

Canadian Yves Laurent does beautiful wood carvings of fish and other animals - and flies. His work is meticulous and detailed and even the stones are carved in wood!

Pasi Visakivi is a fly fisherman and a freelancer photographer from the southern part of Finland

Sam MacDonalds art may at first glance look like paintings, but is actually 3D sculptures made from metal, with a very particular character that lends itself very well to fish and underwater subjects. We confronted him with our usual questions.

A mail ticked in: "One of our clients thought that Adriano Manocchia's art would be a nice addition to your art gallery section." And true enough. Manocchia's beautiful, almost photo realistic art would certainly be a nice addition to our Fishy Artists series.

Michael Jensen is an excellent fishing writer and photographer

UK artist David Miller has long been on our wanted list for the Fishy Artist series, and now we can feature some samples of his impressing art and some answers to a few questions.

Eoin Fairgrieve's interest in angling photography evolved from his professional life as a speycasting instructor

We contacted the team behind the video Uncharted Waters and asked them some questions. Read their replies and learn what drove them and how the trip and the DVD came to be.

Stu Hastie's New Zealand doesn't seem to have a shortage of subjects

We posed a series of questions to Nick Reygaert, the filmmaker behind the fabulous video Hatch, which shows a row of different "hatches" around the world. Hear about (video) gear, tight schedules and future plans.

Get the fascinating story of the video Itu's Bones when Carl McNiel, the man behind the video, answers our questions and tells how the whole thing started and developed.

Jonas says that fly fishing is great way of fishing, and there is always something interesting to photograph

Marcel and his wife Meher have a thriving wedding photography business

It wasn't until his late teens that Dennis Collier developed a keen interest in art and photography, which naturally became integrated into his fishing activities

Henry Hegeman has a photography background shooting film with Minolta gear

When Canadian Nick Laferriere is not on the water, he's blogging, tying flies, and drawing fish. Recently he started combining the manual drawings and digital processes to create a new expression.

Nick price is a professional guide and a photographer with a very keen eye for fly-fishing subjects

Everything Jason Tison draws is done at the kitchen table

Photography is not Corey's full time profession so he tends to stay pretty focused on something that he has a passion for ... fly fishing!

Croatian photographer Aleksandar Vrtaric has a slightly different photographic style compared to many other fly fishing photographers

Juan Jose Serra will be a familiar name to the regular visitors here on GFF.

Jim Levison shoots beautiful pictures from the US north east

Mark Lance is a Colorado based photographer who shoots beautiful and varying images

Jim Klug is known for his participation in the DVDs Drift, Rise, and Connect as well as his activities in the Yellow Dog Adventures fly fishing booking company

The excellent DVD-series The Fish and the Fly are made by Danish filmmaker Niels Vestergaard and fly tyer and flyfisher Morten Oland. We contacted them regarding the videos and got them to answer to a few questions about the project.

"She's a Ducati riding, Wyoming roaming, fly fishing girl born in Tennessee... "
This is how fly fishing artist AD Maddox is introduced on her web site, and an introduction that has exactly the effect that I suppose was intended: I gotta know more about her!

We had the chance to ask Barbara Klutinis - the woman behing the video "Stepping into the Stream" a few questions regarding her film about fly fishing women.

The DVD "A Backyard in Nowhere" is something else. Fly fishing, sure, but also a different experience traveling, fishing, hunting and meeting people by the Innoko River system in Alaska. The team behind the video is Danish, and it was quite natural to grab a hold of them and get them to talk a bit about the background for the whole project.

I have just reviewed the exciting tarpon fishing DVD Tapâm by Danish Jan Bach Kristensen and German Daniel Göz, and I thought I'd approach the two adventurous anglers with some questions regarding their unorthodox fishing and stunning video production.

Robin Armstrong is a British painter based in Devon in the UK, whose lifelike watercolors have been featured in books by himself as well as other authors and whose art is available for purchase in galleries - online as well as physical.

Robin tells us that he sold his first painting already when he was 12, and that he did his first published illustration for the classic English magazine "Creel" when he was 15.

Why fishing?

Craig handed in his resignation and began a life-long dream career as an artist

"I have been an artist and fisherman my entire life. I realized a few years ago after catching a giant striped bass that I wanted a way to remember the fish so I painted the fish life-size with all of the details of the catch." says painter Jim Roszel.

"I really can't pin down exactly when I started doing artwork. I've always done it." These are the words of Sean Seal when presented with the question "how did it start?". Based in Bay City, Michigan, which is not exactly "a fly fishing paradise" as he says, he has still taken on fly fishing as a subject for his art.

Thomas is known from the Danish magazine Sportsfiskeren. At a recent editorial meeting, Thomas brought a bunch of framed reproductions of his drawings, and GFF partner Martin Joergensen immediately grabbed him and lured him into participating in our Fishy Art series.

Bob White is probably best known for his illustrations for John Gierach's long running column in the printed magazine Fly Rod and Reel. Here he tells a bit about how it all started, how he works - and that he also guides and has done so through 27 seasons from south to north, home and abroad.

Read about Florida artist, guide and store owner Vaughn Cochran's history and see samples of his beautiful art, which stretches from pop art over impressionsitic scenes to sculptures. Cochran paints and sculpts fish and scenes from his home waters as well as other tropical waters.

Ever since GFF partner Martin Joergensen first discovered Yoshikazu Fujioka's Japanese web site, which was amongst the first fishing related pages he ever found on the web, he was fascinated with Fujioka's art. Now GFF can present images from "Trouts and Seasons of the Mountain Streams".

South African artist Chris Bladen has specialized in doing bronzes of wildlife - particularly fish. See some of his stunning work and read about the process of shaping and finishing bronze statues of tuna, flying fish, dorados, tigerfish and much more.

Matt makes carvings, signs, furniture and other painted wooden objects

"As a young kid developing my skills and vision as an artist, I found that I could find no better subject to paint then the big northern pike and largemouth bass that I would often observe cruising the weed lines out in the bayou."

When I started rounding up artists for this series, Ad was on my absolutely top priority list, and he agreed on participating.

Rod Sutterby gave us a taste of his beautiful paintings in the book Atlantic Salmon done in cooperation with Malcolm Greenhalgh. In connection with a new series of articles about "Fishy artists" here on GFF we contacted the artist.

Diane Michelin's paintings show anglers, scenery, landscapes, still life and other motifs, which most of us will recognize from our everyday fishing