My late husband's parents lived in Tampa. What a lovely place. And thanks for sharing with your link to your amazing works of art. I'm a quilt artist and purchased a yard of cotton last week with colorful fish on a light aqua water background that look quite similar to your fish painting. I went up stairs and found the new fish fabric, AND Except for one minor detail: yours are by far closer to reality than the ones on the QT Fabrics fish that have more quilterly patterns on them in colors children would love. (equilateral triangles, polkadots, zigzag stripes, etc.) The fabric was found at a local quilt shop here in Walker County TX on the store's kid quilt fabric library area. It's going into a charity baby quilt I started the other day with images children love between bright royal blue and I'm here yellow squares alternating with childhood fabrics that I collect for my charity work. I'm 77 years old, and I like to be useful to the community, so I make baby quilt tops and other quilt guild friends do the quilting, which is a job for very strong young women. Quilting means dealing with large heavy work under a sewing machine that has to be controlled with one arm and free motion machine quilting controlled with the other hand. Back when my husband was alive, he supported my efforts whole-heartedly, and I made 100 tops one year, which means several hours work every day, 365. Most years I average 30 to 60 quilts in 52 weeks, but that year it was good to have his cheerful support. I just make the tops, and hopefully, I can make an abc animal quilt this year from a book I wrote for making child quilts 30 or 40 years ago. My little ABC animals applique book had designs for animals starting with every letter in the alphabet and then some.
When my dear late husband watched Super Bowl games in years past, I'd bring my sewing machine in the Den and work on charity quilts every year. It was fun to be with him when he got time off from his electrical engineering job.
And I love this little fabric of colorful fish on a light aqua background that is like Caribbean coastal waters that have very pretty fish decorating the shallows. Whoever designed the fabric may have seen your inspiring work even though the fish are more row-by-row as you would see on a quilt or its fabric and they have quilt patterns for the fish and wild colors for their fins.