Animal portrait Charlotte Blobfish by Nico Brons

About "Animal portrait Charlotte Blobfish"

by Nico Brons

About the artwork

Charlotte "Lottie" Blobfish

Lottie Blobfish, born in 1966, is a legendary Australian long-distance swimmer with a fine record. Swimming twenty-five kilometres through open water was a breeze for Lottie. After a glittering swimming career with victories in the FINA Open Water Swimming World Cup in 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1990, Lottie decided to slow down. At the age of 58, she got married to snorkelling instructor Barry Loligo. They had met while swimming around the Great Barrier Reef. Taking it easy did not become a reality as two years after her marriage, in 2024, she became national coach of the Australian Olympic swimming squad. Lottie decided it was time for change and renewal. The swimming squad thought it was a joke when Lottie instructed them to train with flippers that were three sizes too big and a metre long. It was this very change that allowed the Australian swimmers to break record after record and make them seemingly unbeatable. Her progressive training method was called the "Blobfish method". Swim coaches around the world tried to decipher the secret behind the giant flippers, but so far failed. Lottie Blobfish became a legend, not only because of her swimming achievements, but also as the most unconventional and beloved coach in the history of swimming.

Created by Nico Brons with support from AI.