Spawn Till You Die: The Fin Art of Ray Troll

Ray Troll’s newbook Spawn Till You Die: The Fin Art ofRay Troll is an exuberant plunge into the fantastic realities of seacreatures and prehistoric animals that come alive with scientific realism andhis quirky sense of humor.  For more than fourdecades, this celebrated Alaskan artist has been luring, hooking, and landingfans around the world with his mesmerizing renditions of the inhabitants ofPlanet Ocean, past and present. His art is featured in the nation’s majornatural history museums including the Smithsonian, in galleries, and in books,as well as on immensely popular T-shirts. Part natural history adventure andpart underground comic, his work depicts beautiful and accurately drawn fish ofall kinds, Northwest Coast totems, Freud and Darwin, fossils, resurrections ofextinct animals, and much more.

Troll’s art is deeply thought provoking(pun intended) but also simply fun to experience and never far from an insidejoke he seems to be sharing with everyone. Some of his pieces are amusinglytongue-in-cheek, others are beautifully surrealistic and evocative of theinterconnectedness of life on Earth, and his grandly composed major pieces arebrilliant, inspiring panoramas of the natural world. His whimsy and attentionto detail in his renderings of fish and other aquatic creatures has earned hima devoted following of scientists, anglers, and people who just like a goodlaugh. Welcome to the fishy, funny, inspiring art of Ray Troll.