Revive - A Quarterly Fly Fishing Journal (Volume 1. Issue 2. Fall 2013) | Page 87

Which feature of the fly lifestyle do you enjoy most in translating into artform? I mean, is it the people, the places, or the quarry?

I guess I haven't really thought about this too much, and Ive really only focused on the fish for my art. Im really new to this flyfishing scene, and I don't really have any fishing role models other than my friends that I fish w/ and my father. I haven't looked too far into the superstars, or legends of the sport. But … that is a really good idea for future projects. But up until this point it has just been the fish, and trying to bring more of a contemporary element into fish art. Not to say there aren't a few guys ( DeYoung obviously) that are pushing this small aspect of wildlife art into the future but for the most part the art you see are extremely traditional and could have been painted 200 years ago as easily as they were today. I feel like the art in flyfishing should parallel what is happening in the sport today. To me, there is sort of a movement of the new guys coming up that look and are treating the lifestyle a lot differently than previous generations of flyfisherman. Simply put to me, flyfishing is no longer the same thing that your grandpa did and the art that goes along with this new culture should resemble that.