Regan Santry was born in 1950 and raised on Long Island, New York. Growing up near the Atlantic Ocean and 50 miles from New York City provided many opportunities for him to develop both his artistic talents and a deep appreciation for the sea.

        His artistic professions include animation, mural art, silk screening, custom automotive painting and art direction; working for over 35 years as a storyboard artist, illustrator, cartoonist, layout artist and creative director.

        Over the years, aside from his indoor art career, he would break away to pursue working on the water as way to balance his life. -"I love to draw, but the Ocean is my church." He worked in advertising and other times as a bayman, clam digger, or he would go deep sea fishing. He was also a mate and Captain for the Long Island Oyster Farm.

        Throughout his life, he balanced his two careers until he discovered the process that he named "Textureprinting".

        In 2002, he journeyed to Flamingo Bay, Costa Rica, for the sole purpose of testing his technique on a large sailfish. There he met Captain Jesse Balleti and his First Mate, Curpin of the charter boat "Wave Dancer". Both were familiar with Japanese fish printing and understood the rarity of larger Gyotakus. It was agreed on that very first day, that Captain Jesse would help in the effort to acquire a fish. They set out at noon the next day. Despite radio chatter stating that "... the bite was over", they hooked up and caught a ten and a half foot sailfish. As they boated the fish, it was clear to see that it had "thrown his stomach" during the battle, and was mortally wounded. Since the fish wouldn't have survived, it was decided to keep it for printing. Regan had his fish within the first hour of fishing!.

        That night, under the Wave Dancer's decklight's, Regan printed the massive fish. This was a unique site to say the least. Even though this area was thick with sailfish, the local "Ticos" rarely saw them at the dock. In addition, here was this stranger painting a sailfish black, in the middle of the night! By midnight, the fish was printed, cleaned and fed to the group that had sat around the boat and watched the event. Regan  returned to Florida, where he developed the first Textureprint, an eight foot silk screen (Mr. Santry's only silk screen) of the sailfish he caught.

       After matching both the experience of fishing with his successful attempt at printing a large fish, Mr. Santry saw himself as ideally suited to develop his technique. He has since made it his life's goal to archive as many species as he can and share these images with the world, as a means to elevate public awareness regarding habitat and population levels.