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James Prosek Easton, Connecticut USA jamepro@aol.com	Artist, writer, activist, and Yale graduate James Prosek made his authorial debut at nineteen with Trout: an Illustrated History (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), which featured seventy of his watercolor paintings of the trout of North America. Prosek has shown his paintings with the Gerald Peters Gallery, New York and Santa Fe; Fleisher Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia; Meredith Long Gallery, Houston; as well as with Wajahat/Ingrao, New York, and the d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn. His exhibition at The Aldrich in 2007-2008 is his first solo museum showing. Prosek is a regular contributor to The New York Times and won a Peabody Award in 2003 for his documentary about traveling through England in the footsteps of Izaak Walton, the seventeenth-century author of The Compleat Angler. Prosek's work in the studio is concerned with our changing relationship to nature.

Style:
Media:	Mostly watercolor but oils too!
Preferred species:	I like depicting all natural history subjects. Birds and fish are particular favorites and sometimes imaginary hybrids of the two.
Preferred geographic region:	Any
Preferred use of earlier or new work:	Earlier

See also: electronic media:	www.troutsite.com
selected published images:	I have eight books with my paintings, please see my website, www.troutsite.com.