FROM THE VAULTS

Earlier in the week I had the pleasure of selling a few prints that I created several years ago. It is rewarding to find out they are still on walls in places, enough to generate enquiries and subsequently sales.

I like to work on new ideas and am always on the lookout for inspiration. But every now and then, when interest is shown in previous work, it encourages me to take a little look back, rummage through drawers looking for work to review and resurface. Maybe even set up a page on the sleeplessink.com website dedicated to work from the vaults.

NORTH SHORE, OAHU

Photographs from my visit to the North Shore of Oahu. It was amazing to be there after decades of reading, hearing and watching films from the seven mile miracle, just to walk up and down the beach between Pupukea and Sunset Beach sent excitement through me.

More can be seen by visiting North Shore, Oahu on the new website: sleeplessink.com

A DAY LEADS TO RETHINK

The last post ended with a thought that surfing in England was incomparable to surfing in Hawaii.

There are obvious differences, but I think the statement was swayed by having just returned from the North Shore of Oahu, straight into cold, overcast, onshore north Cornwall in late February.

The difference will be forever blatant, but thankfully there will be days when the conditions join and force a rethink. This was one of those days.

REALLY!

Despite surfing being globally recognised and pursued in even landlocked countries, the reaction in Hawaii to surfing in England was ‘Really?!’

All it takes is a couple of flights and a few drinks in a San Fransisco airport bar, before seeing people going for a surf in England, despite the grey skies and obvious temperature difference.

That said, the reaction ‘Really?!’ is understandable – surfing really is different in Hawaii, almost a completely different sport, life, pursuit.

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