green room series

Dawn Patrol usually begins around 6:30, so we get to the beach a bit before then. Our group is kind of exclusive because we know each other’s styles pretty well and are comfortable with the way we surf.  We’re all pretty laid back surfers. It's like being on a different planet when you are in the water that early. Once you’re on the board everything comes together and the experience is like nothing else imagined. I get stoked every time I get spit out of a barrel. Being in the green room gives off this ambient sound and feeling. It is so tranquil where you can just clear your mind. My art gives me the same effect. 

I love to use a free formed approach to my art just like my surfing. The art is like the wave, the palette or shape could be the same but every lesson and result is different. When I do a pour and I were to use the same amount of colors in the same order on two of the same size canvases I would get a different result every time. When it comes to the ocean, there are no two waves that are exactly the same, even though they might have the same ingredients. In surfing, I really only worry about having a quality experience with life, friends and the ocean. My style of art promotes the same mentality. I really look forward to continue this style and incorporate my surfing adventures into my work. I eventually want to develop my artistic capabilities and create my own line of surfboards and apparel over the next couple of years through travel and experience.