Thursday, April 11, 2013

“We All Swim Together”

Painted Comber
Susan Brubaker Knapp here. I have started work on a new piece I am calling “We All Swim Together.” It will include many species of fish, both fresh-water and salt-water. It will be a large piece. I am hoping to show the amazing beauty and diversity of fish, and to point out the many issues they face: over-fishing, pollution, global warming, destruction of wetlands, regulation of rivers and dams, and many more. 

I have appreciated the beauty of fish since I was a little child, fishing with my father. There is something magical in their glistening scales, and shimmering fins. They are so amazingly graceful. It is terrible to think that so many species are endangered.

Painted Comber   
Blackbelly Rosefish


Blackbelly Rosefish
Narrow-Barred Spanish Mackerel
Narrow-Barred Spanish Mackerel