fabian mrad - watercolor artist
MEET FABIAN
My name is Fabian Roberto Mrad, I am 63 years old and married to Albana , and we have two sons, twins, Franco and Pablo, and we all fish. I have fished and painted all my life, I used to be an Industrial Engineer, for 26 years, but some years ago I decided to leave it all aside and paint full time. We live in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I swiftly led our sons through fishing and it is not about how many fish they fish, or how big they are, it is mostly about Nature, learning about patience, perseverance, and growing up as good human beings.
My Dad , I can´t write about fishing without relating it a lot to my father , he loved Nature and fishing in every possible way and transmitted it to my brothers and me, he improved his english through reading Field and Stream and Outdoor Life magazines for decades. Something happened when I was 12, my father decided to spend our next holidays in Patagonia. The mountains, the smell of the woods enhanced by the mist, the insects, the millions of blueish and greenish colours of the water, it blew my mind, I can still nowadays spend a lot of time just seeing the running waters of a river and midwater leaves slowly going by , without getting tired.
My father knew the lake districts well, he had been there in the late 50`s and early 60´s , he had done some fly fishing too and spent with my mother their honeymoon in Bariloche City, they reached the city driving 1000 miles in a Jeep, and those honeymoon days included a lot of fishing.
That summer I fished my first trout, It was in the Hess lake, my father was rowing a wood boat, we had our rods one on each side and were dragging spoons when a rainbow took his and went downwards and every time we get some line back it went downwards again, it happened many times and I just couldn`t wait enough to see that silver blur to materialize into a trout. It finally did and helped to link me to trout fishing for life.
I think I have to keep on improving as a painter and as a fisherman, and I know I won´t be able to fully understand fishing and watercolouring but I am enjoying meanwhile the journey a lot, the creation moments along with my family in a world of pigments, flies and trouts, each day is like being in the Hess lake waiting to see that rainbow trout break the surface again.
THE TROUT LINES EXPERIENCE
You may not be able to bring your greatest catch home—but with Fabián’s work, you can carry its essence with you.
A true friend of Trout Lines, Argentine artist and author Fabián Mrad captures the spirit of your time on the water—your catch, the fly that brought it to hand, and the feeling of the moment—through his watercolor paintings. Each piece becomes a lasting connection to your experience in Patagonia.