A life-long love of surfing mixed with an equally strong infatuation for mosaic art has compelled me to devise a way to bring the two together. A self-taught artist, I've been doodling waves on anything and everything for 40 years. The doodles are still the same, only now they are moored in glass tile.

A California expatriate currently living in the Pacific Northwest, adapting to the gray winter months continues to be a challenge for me. My cure is color therapy, saturating my mosaics with as much color as possible using the brightest colors I can find. I use recycled surfboards exclusively. These are old, dinged up, often broken in two surfboards that are no longer seaworthy and otherwise headed for the landfill.

Born in Southern California, I started surfing in 1969; first on belly and knee boards, and ultimately evolving into a fully upright human. Ventura County Line, Zuma, Manhatten Beach, Huntington, Newport, Leucadia, Cardiff by the Sea and Solana Beach were a few of my crew's most popular surfing haunts. I now enjoy riding mostly uncrowded waves on the Oregon coast. Neoprene is standard equipment up here - it's cold, but the waves are fun, the views are incredible, and the surfers are usually laid back. A combination that's hard to beat!