Description:
For
more than four decades, celebrated Alaskan artist Ray Troll has been luring, hooking,
and landing fans around the world with his mesmerizing renditions of the
inhabitants of Planet Ocean, past and present. Featured in his new collection
of art in Spawn Till You Die: The Fin Art of Ray Troll, the stunning
piece, "Planet Ocean," is now available as a beautiful 18" x 18" round 350-piece
puzzle.
Brief description:
RAY TROLL is a world-renowned artist known for his scientifically
accurate and often humorous artwork, inspired by field work and research in
marine science, paleontology, geology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Ray's
renditions of everything from modern day salmon and marine mammals to bizarre
creatures of the prehistoric past have become iconic in fishing, scientific,
and environmental activist communities around the world.
His work, distributed from the Soho Coho Art Gallery in Ketchikan,
Alaska, can be found on posters, hoodies, and millions of t-shirts sported by
fisher folks, the occasional celebrity and many others. Ray's paintings and
mixed-media drawings are in the collections of the Miami Museum of Science, the Burke Museum of
Natural History and Culture, Alaska Airlines, the Anchorage Museum, the Alaska
State Museum, and the Ketchikan Museum. His books include Sharkabet: a Sea of
Sharks from A to Z and Crusisn' the Fossil Coastline and Cruisin the Fossil
Freeway with Dr. Kirk Johnson, now director of the Smithsonian National Museum
of Natural History, for which he and Kirk were awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
He and Port Townsend writer Brad Matsen produced four popular books: Shocking
Fish Tales, Planet Ocean, Raptors, Fossil, Fins and Fangs and Rapture of the
Deep.
Ray's recent ventures include co-hosting the popular Paleo Nerd Podcast, featuring informative
and amusing interviews with leading paleontologists and scientists from around
the world. He is the recipient of a gold medal for distinction in the natural
history arts by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, a Rasmuson
Foundation Distinguished artist award and also received the Alaska Governor's
award for the arts.
Troll
has a ratfish species named for him and an extinct genus of extinct
round-bellied herring named for him. He also plays icthyo-centirc rock n' roll music with his band the
Ratfish Wranglers.