Flick Ford
Born
in 1954 in Atlanta, Flick Ford was raised in Westchester County, New
York. He 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.
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 passions: music (as lead singer in a
garage rock band) and art. He took formal watercolor classes in
the ‘60s, figure drawing and graphic design classes between 1973
and 1976, and then studied art at Evergreen State College in
Washington. Flick moved to New York City in 1978 and dove into the
audio/visual scene of indie film, video, underground publishing,
cartooning, illustration, and he reconnected with music. He performed
in the East Village with several bands, and wrote and sang lead in
The Crazy Pages for almost twenty years.
He
left New York in 1993 and became obsessed with fishing all over
again. The effects of over twenty years of pollution and
over-development became painfully apparent - “I felt I should start
to keep a record of the fish I caught. I wanted to catch and paint
these fish, and show how they appear to me in all their iridescent
beauty. Three books later and I’m all about advocacy for all the
world’s fisheries - freshwater and saltwater”
Today, Ford
makes his home in Rensselaer County, New York. He fishes more than
one hundred days a year and ties his own flies. Flick Ford is a
talented painter, musician and graphic artist. His love of angling
and the natural world has led him to specialize in fine art paintings
of fish. Flick's work has been published in three recent books,
"FISH: 77 Great Fish of North America" (Greenwich Workshop
Press, 2006) and "BIG: The 50 Greatest World Record Catches"
(Greenwich Workshop Press, 2008), “WILD: 75 Freshwater Tropical
Fish of the World” (Greenwich Workshop Press, 2013).
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