Artist:FLICK FORD
Title: **Original Art / Commission Painting** BIG: The 50 Greatest World Record Catches
Medium: Original, personally commissioned mixed media painting 8” x 13” (sample shown above) Limited to 26
Image Dimensions (book): 11" x 14"
About this Special Edition: Commission Your Own Flick Ford Painting! This extremely limited Collector’s Edition, signed by the artist and author, is lettered A through Z and comes in a custom made slipcase of the finest book cloth with a letterpress label. Commission your own original watercolor of a fish from either of Flick Ford’s books, his 2006 FISH: 77 Great Fish of North America or BIG: The 50 Greatest World Record Catches and your personally commissioned Collector’s Edition book and original painting will ship within 2-3 weeks. Only 26 people will ever own this Flick Ford Collector’s Edition. Talk to your Greenwich Workshop Authorized Dealer about your personal commission.

BIG: The 50 Greatest World Record Catches BIG: The 50 Greatest World Record Catches is the first-ever illustrated book about the top 50 world record game fish catches. Flick Ford—acclaimed—“Audubon” painter of fish—has created spectacular reconstructions of actual world record catches, many never-before-seen in living color. Author Mike Rivkin, International Game Fish Association’s historian, tells the stories behind each of the 50 top catches. Who, what, where, bait, boat, tackle plus the history of record keeping, conservation, IGFA certification and summary of endangered species.


About the Artist: Flick Ford fell in love with fishing at age five. His father, an accomplished fly-fisherman and talented commercial artist/copywriter, instilled in him a deep respect for nature and nurtured his early creativity.

Born in 1954 in Atlanta, Flick was raised in Westchester County, New York. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s Flick fished the Adirondacks, New England, Long Island Sound, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and the woodland lakes of Quebec, while pursuing two other loves: music (as lead singer in a garage rock band) and art. He took formal watercolor classes in the 1960s; figure drawing and graphic design classes from1973 to 1976 and then studied art at Evergreen State College in Washington State.

Flick moved to New York City in 1978 and dove into the audio/visual scene including indie film, video, underground publishing, cartooning, illustration as well as reconnecting with music. He performed in the East Village with several bands, and wrote and sang lead in The Crazy Pages for almost twenty years.

Ford left New York in 1993, heading for the Hudson Highlands where he quickly became obsessed with fishing the NYC watershed. As he branched out to many of the brook trout places where he had previously fished in parts of the Adirondacks and Vermont, the effects of over twenty years of pollution, over-development and acid rain became painfully apparent.

“I felt I should start to keep a record of the fish I caught and decided to do it in watercolor paintings. I just want to catch and paint these fish, and show how they appear to me in all their iridescent beauty.”

Today Ford makes his home in Putnam County, New York. He fishes more than 100 days a year and ties his own flies. He selects early every fish he paints for its relative size and beauty. After landing a fish, he quickly gets a digital photo before the colors fade, carefully measures it in all dimensions, sketches details, counts scales, fin rays and finally traces it to get its actual outline. He has developed a technique of successive washes utilizing masking friskets and painstakingly detailed dry brush that make these fish truly come to life on paper.