[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ecca Schlaff is one of the most creative artists Fly Life Magazine.com has ever featured. Her vision and style are uniquely her own. No one we know of approaches painting the watery world of fin-fish like she does. Even an angler with just a small amount of exposure to fisheries can determine what it is that Becca is so skillfully abstracting. As a matter of fact, it’s the abstractness of her subject that is her unique signature.
About Becca Schlaff:
Becca grew up in Pinckney, Michigan surrounded by rivers, lakes, and fields…endless playgrounds for her imagination which still hold true today no matter where she is on the map. She has exhibited in juried art shows across Michigan and Florida, and her work is held in private collections in the United States, Canada, England, and Sweden. She has been featured in MidCurrent, American Angler, Fly Life Magazine.com, and Fly Rod & Reel magazine. In 2010 and 2012 Becca’s paintings were exhibited at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan and she will be exhibiting her oil painting “Radiant Brown Trout” for ArtPrize 2013.
In the Autumn 2013 issue of Fly Rod & Reel Bob White wrote about Becca’s work in glowing terms:
” . . . Every mark she brings to her work is as unique as the fish she renders. After a study of her paintings, it seems to me that she doesn’t actually paint fish. Rather, she weaves painterly marks of color on canvas to create the spiritual essence of them. I am forced to respond.
Schlaff’s path to becoming an angling artist happened in a slightly different manner from most; she began painting fish before actually taking up a fly rod to pursue them.
Her journey began in 2007, when a friend showed her a photograph of a brown trout, and asked her to paint from it for his fly shop. She was struck by the beauty of the fish, and says that being exposed to trout was, ‘“like discovering a new channel to look at the beauty of nature. . . ‘”
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Contact:
Becca Schlaff
phone: (517) 974-8465
email: becca.schlaff@gmail.com
Website: http://becca-schlaff.com/blog/
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