Erin McDermott

Erin studied at Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Art and was awarded Southlands Young Contemporary Award for her paintings.
Her passion for fishing and the outdoors was instilled by her fly-fishing father who would regularly let her off school to accompany him on fishing excursions to the rivers of Southland and Fiordland.
Erin lives in Queenstown, still guides occassionaly and is on the executive committee for New Zealand Fresh Water Anglers.

Recent commissions have ranged in price from NZ$600.00 - NZ$1500.00

Erin paints to your brief

Tell her your experience
or supply a photo and
she will capture this
for you in oils. Erin
also does “trophy
paintings” where
the fish is life size
on canvas. A measurement
of body height,
length, and tail width
is required before releasing
the fish and a side
on photo. where the
fish was caught
and what type of day
aids mood and atmosphere.

On her approach to painting

Erin says: Trout are well known for the way they adapt to become part of the river or lake in which they live - but the thing that always amazes me is how each fish also fits in perfectly to the environment outside of the water.
This is what i try to portray in my paintings - a territorial brown cruising over a South Otago valley - a high country rainbow racing through a backdrop of tumbling rocks and tussock.

Links of Interest

Contact Erin:
email info@artoftrout.co.nz
phone 643 441 1547

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