Nick Mayer
'Humpback Whale

Nick Mayer
'Beaver Pond Brook Trout'


Nick Mayer
'Wahoo'

Nick Mayer
'Striper & Flounder'

 
Nick Mayer
'Spey Steelhead'

The son of an artist and a biologist, Nick Mayer seems to have found a unique niche between these two disciplines. Nick has used his undergraduate and graduate degrees in biology from Brown University as a vehicle to spend most of his adult life traveling in pursuit of fish and wildlife. He has done so as an artist, a teacher, a commercial fisherman, a research biologist, and a flyfisherman.

While investigating the effects of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill on sockeye salmon, restoring spawning habitats for the last wild strain of steelhead in the Columbia River, studying the nesting habits of sea turtles in Costa Rica, and fishing small streams in the Green Mountains for brook trout, Nick has kept detailed sketchbooks to later use as references in his watercolors. His paintings are not just portraits of fish, they are windows into real experience.

Nick Mayer
'Snook and Deceiver'

Nick Mayer
'Spawning Steelheads'