About Us
Jimmy & Danielle - Owners, Printers, & Fisherman/Fisherwoman
As the owners of The Fish Print Shop, we first wanted to say thank you! Thank you for supporting a small business, thank you for supporting our fisheries, & most of all - thank you for supporting artists & their life’s work!
Danielle & I live in New Port Richey, Florida, & first fell in love with The Fish Print Shop back in 2019, when we ordered one of our own! We knew it was something special, and 5 years later in 2024 we purchased the shop.
We like to say The Fish Print Shop is “by fisherman, for fisherman” & embody that in our daily lives. We love fishing on our Sabalo boat, fishing on our paddle board, & just being on the water as much as possible. We are active tournament fisherman having won 1st 3x & numerous other “on the board” finishes. We also love targeting as many species as possible, having caught 103 types so far. We love Florida, we love the Keys, & most of all we love fishing.
Every print from The Fish Print Shop is 100% handmade by us here in Florida & we make sure every print is “the best one yet”.
Each print is printed on the best in class paper, with the best in class ink, by truly the best in the world artists (which are featured below).
We look forward to creating a “forever memory” for you and the fellow fisherman in your life. Thank you & go catch a big one!
Val Kells- Artist
Val Kells is a widely recognized freelance Marine Science Illustrator. She completed her B.S. in Environmental Studies and her formal training in Scientific Communication and Illustration at UC Santa Cruz in 1985. Since graduation, she has illustrated aquatic life full time for clients in the US and abroad. Val collaborates with editors, ichthyologists, and fisheries biologists, and her work has been published in numerous books and periodicals. She illustrated, co-authored, and designed A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: From Maine to Texas, its companion, A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: From Alaska to California, and Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Virginia. Val also illustrated Field Guide to Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay and Tunas and Billfishes of the World. Val has also worked with designers, educators, and curators to develop hundreds of illustrations for interpretive and educational displays. Her illustrations have appeared in over 30 public aquariums, museums, and nature centers. Val's growing collection includes over 2,100 illustrations of marine and freshwater fishes that are accurate, aesthetic, and rendered in life-like watercolor. Val is an avid fisherman and naturalist and spends her off-time exploring, fishing, and documenting inland and coastal habitats.
Joseph R. Tomelleri- Artist
Joseph R. Tomelleri has been illustrating fishes since 1985. Joe works in Prismacolor pencil, and his 1,100+ illustrations have been rendered from actual fish to ensure scientific accuracy. He has collected the majority of his specimens in the field so he can study and photograph the fishes and preserve them for use in the illustrations.
Joe's work has appeared in more than 1000 publications, including Trout and Salmon of North America, Fishes of Alabama, Outdoor Life, The In-Fisherman, and Eddie Bauer. His recent projects include research on the native Trout of Mexico, Fishes of the Salish Sea and Puget Sound, Fishes of Texas, and Fishes of Kansas.
Joe lives in Leawood, Kansas with his wife Susan and their two sons.
Paul Vecsei- Artist
I am a fish biologist and scientific illustrator. While I have drawn numerous fishes over the years, trout and char are among the most interesting and challenging. I use a complicated technique that combines, watercolor pencil, color pencil, graphite and burnishing to create the realistic look of these fish. The process is very lengthy and each illustration has many layers laid down prior to burnishing and adding of detail. There is no pleasure in the creation process of such art because of how long it takes (weeks). Once finished however, the sensation is euphoric.
Daniel Driscoll- Artist
Dr. Lindsay Marshall- Artist
Born in Western Australia, Lindsay grew up fishing and diving in and around the beautiful Indian Ocean. She caught her first fish at age five from a jetty on a trip to Victor Harbor (it was a Sweep) and from that moment was fascinated with aquatic creatures. She learned to dive at age thirteen and, shortly after, took a diving trip to Ningaloo reef. It was then that she decided to devote her life to the study of the marine environment, sharks in particular. After graduating from Murdoch University with honours in Marine Science, Lindsay went on to study with the CSIRO at the University of Tasmania where she attained a Ph.D. in shark morphology and fisheries science. She is also a published shark taxonomist. Lindsay has had no formal artistic training, besides tertiary school art classes where her final piece was chosen for the ‘Year 12 Perspectives 1998’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. However, she has been painting and drawing since the age of seven, and has worked professionally under the pseudonym ‘Stick Figure Fish’ since 2003.
As an artist, she has drawn influence from other natural history artists such as Roger Swainston, Elizabeth Gould, John William Lewin, Christopher Pope and George Coates. Lindsay has completed illustrations for many scientific publications and texts including, a key to Australian Myctophids (with CSIRO) and a book cover for “Economically important sharks and rays Indonesia” by W.T. White. Her most significant published work to date is 'Rays of the World' by CSIRO Press, the first illustrated guide to all extant species of ray. The Tree of Life Project will be Lindsay’s debut large-scale illustration project. Lindsay uses a digital tablet to create taxonomically accurate sketches of each specimen and then transfers the sketch to watercolour paper where she paints the final image using an acrylic medium.
Lindsay’s artistic philosophy is of technical vividness. She has a great respect for each animal that she paints and endeavors to represent each individual with accuracy, integrity, and a vivid life force. She believes in the importance of documenting natural history, as many of the species that she paints may not exist in the near future. What Lindsay would ultimately like to accomplish with her art is to inspire a sense of wonder about the natural world through her paintings and, in doing so, motivate people to value and conserve the natural world.
Michael Emerson - Original Founder
Back in 2017 Mike started the Fish Print Shop, which at the time was known as the “Catch & Release Shop”. When many businesses sell they take down the info of the old owner, but we wanted Mike to remain on the site as the shop wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him!
We strive to always “pickup where Mike left off” with the The Fish Print Shop having two guiding principles:
Fisheries conservation through promoting catch and release fishing practices
Fairly compensating artists for their life’s work.
Lastly we want to embody Mike in as he once said: “I wanted to create something timeless that you might find in a natural history museum, old city aquarium, or biology classroom- places where I’ve always found solace when I’m not fishing.”
Thank you Mike!
Created in New Port Richey, Florida
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