Closing Party for "The Wild Ones" tonight at Surf Indian

Come on out and see the amazing work of Susan Wick Strand and Kevin Roche and a live performance by the Red Fox Tails. The show features hand painted handplanes by Susan Wickstrand. You won't want to miss this. I was at the opening and it was unreal. The Surf Indian is the place to be for surf art.

Wellen Body Surf Art Show a Success

photo Pierce Kavanagh

Skye Walker 

photo Pierce Kavanagh

photo EL

Matt Jung form Wellen put on a very cool, first I've ever I've heard of, Body Surfing Art Show at their old HQ. Complete with original artwork by the artists Skye Walker, Keiron [Seamouse] Lewis, Ciro Bicudo, Jen Peters, Anthony Faucheuxthat who work with Wellen. 

We were lucky enough to get invited to join in on the fun. For our part we brought eight handplanes to display along with a little impromptu wave sculpture I made out of scrap card board and hemp string complete with little hemp string bodysurfer. (Not pictured but added in the night by Kipp was a beer tab for an handplane.) 

Thanks to Matt from Wellen for inviting us!

Thanks to all the artists that participated in making the Art Colab models with us! If anyone wants a handplane painted up by one of them let us know.

As more pictures come in from the event we'll post them.

Clockwise from the top center:

"The Greener Blue", Resin Tint on Foam by Kipp Denslow

"The Yellow Mexi", Resin Tint on Foam by Kipp Denslow

Untitled, Acrylic on Hot Coat by Tak Aoyama

"Enjoy the Universe", Airbrush on Hot Coat by Peter St. Pierre

"Tinny Bubbles", Pencil on Foam and Resin Tint by Ed Lewis and Kipp Denslow  

"The Crabby Trilobite", Posca Pen on Hot Coat by JP St. Pierre

"Orange Iket", Acrylic on Hot Coat by Susan WickStrand

"The Harder They Come", Acrylic on Hot Coat by Jeremy Farson. 

Center: 

Untitled, Cardboard and Hemp String by Ed Lewis

photo EL

photo Pierce Kavanagh

photo Pierce Kavanagh

Surf Indian - Wild Ones - Show Photos

The opening for The Wild Ones featuring Susan Wickstrand and Kevin Roche at the Surf Indian was unreal. What a night. The energy at the event was amazing and the artwork and photography was utterly inspiring to say the least. This was the second time one of our handplanes has made it into a show but the first time Kipp and I were at the event to see it hung.  Seeing someone buy a Susan / Enjoy original lit me up. I could barley contain myself.  

Susan and Kevin are some of the nicest and most talented people I have ever had the pleasure to get to know. The joy they were feeling while in a room filled with loved ones and strangers alike enjoying their passion was contagious. I seriously couldn't have been more stoked that night then if all my own work was on the walls.

The thing that I like about Kevin and Susan is there ability to collaborate. Kipp and I are huge fans of working together with others but these two take it to a whole other level. The work by Susan mixes her own talents with the works of legend photogs and Kevin finds his way into the lives of some of our most beloved surf figures to bare their souls in all his glory. 

The Surf Indian was a star in itself. A show there just contains an energy that is hard to find anywhere else. I don't know if it is the location or the energy it attracts but events there are well worth the trip if need be. 

All and all I give the show a huge double shaka and wish all to see it before it goes down. 

Susan Wickstrand Collector Handplanes at Surf Indian Tonight

Our friend amazing artist Susan Wickstrand hand-painted two handplanes for her and Kevin Roche's art show The Wild Ones tonight at the Surf Indian. Doors open at 7PM and it goes till 10pm. Music by the Mattson 2!  Come and stop by and check out these beauties.  See you there.

Surfindian

4652/4658 Mission Blvd.

Pacific Beach, CA 92109

858-412-5334

Wild Ones Art Show - Saturday 7pm Surf Indian.

Our friends Susan Wickstrand and Kevin Roche are having an art show this Saturday night at the Surf Indian. Live music by the Mattson 2! Kipp and I will be there. Susan even painted up two handplanes for the show! If you have seen the list of legends she’s worked with, you will understand how stoked and honored we are to have her do some handplanes. See everyone there! http://www.surfindian.com