Morning Surfer captures the quiet electricity of a dawn session at Llangenith, the famed sweep of Gower sand just waking under an early summer sun. A lone figure, clad in stark black neoprene, carves across the wave’s shoulder, poised in that liminal instant between balance and collapse.
The sky is a slow-blooming peach and rose, the sun hanging low as if reluctant to rise, casting its light across a sea rendered in precise, woodblock-like linework. Here, the artist reimagines the centuries-old Ukiyo-e woodblock tradition for a distinctly contemporary eye, the crisp horizon lines, the rhythm of patterned foam, placing it firmly in the present.
The eternal repetition of the tide meeting the fleeting, human moment of a ride. In Morning Surfer, modern surf culture drifts into dialogue with centuries-old Japanese aesthetics, and the result is both cinematic and meditative. A portrait of saltwater ritual at the edge of a new day.
