Dean & Julie's Wedding

The wedding in the park at Cabarita and the reception at Bilinudgel was for all of the two busloads of guests a full day as interesting as the personalities of the bride and groom. Dean & Julie wanted me to photograph not only the wedding but some of the often overlooked aspects of an important celebration. This is a small selection of photos taken over 11 hours that reflects another view of their wonderful event.

Rod Hynd's new board

Rod recently bought in a Skip Frye Diamond model that over the years had finally become so compressed that he needed a replica made. Custom shaping these boards is a pleasure as it not only reinforces the whole concept of custom shaping but also allows me to revisit some of the classic yet timeless designs from some of the worlds most respected shapers. The original can now be retired as a valuable collectors item with a great history and the new one can be surfed and enjoyed as the original was.

The Road from Manly to Bondi

This "Organic Pop" style which I have developed over the last few years is a modern twist to the dreamtime method of lifting above the landscape and viewing places in my memory and the roads that connect them. Acrylic on canvas. A series of paintings of the east coast is developing with Noosa, several of the Gold Coast, Byron Bay, Crescent Head and Sydney Harbour already completed. Sunshine Coast and the northern beaches of Sydney are on the drawing board.

Leilani

Working on a few portraits recently. This is a section of one, acrylic on white washed fabric stretched over timber. 

Peter Drouyn - single fin style

Peter Drouyn showing the surfing style that created the legend, before the wind turned Westerly.

Endless Summer Revisited

Famous surf film makers Dana and Wes Brown, son and grandson of the Endless Summer director Bruce Brown, socializing and signing collectors items at Pointbreak Restaurant Burleigh Heads.

Blainey's new quad fish

Blainey's new 6'2" x 20" fish with a resin pour deck and handmade timber quad glass-on fins.

Craig's new longboard

The Gold Coast Queensland

Another in the series of organic pop seascapes. This one shows the coast road from Surfers Paradise past the world famous surf points of Burleigh Heads, Currumbin, Kirra and Snapper Rocks. Continuing down the coast along the Tweed River and past Cook Island. The south swell sweeps around Duranbah  and into the Gold Coast, the home of some of the best waves in the world. Acrylic on Canvas.

Polly

Having a funky little gallery / surf shop,  a bunch of interesting people often wander through. Polly, visiting from England had just bought a new derby hat and posed for this painting inspired by Clockwork Orange. Acrylic on timber.