One Room. One Artist. Every Board.

I trained as a painter, not a shaper — years of art-school figure drawing and a stubborn amount of ink work that my tutors kept telling me to abandon for 'more serious' media. I didn't abandon it. It's most of what you see on the boards now.

The first board happened by accident. I was sick of every stock graphic in the shop looking like a Red Bull can, so I painted my own topsheet blank in a friend's garage and rode it all season. People kept asking where I bought it. Eventually I stopped explaining and just started building them for other people instead — a vacuum press bought secondhand from a factory that was upgrading its line, a workshop above a bike shop, and about nine years of getting the layup right underneath whatever I'd drawn.

I like drawing things people are a little embarrassed to ask for — a dead pet, a grandfather's handwriting, a tattoo they got at nineteen and regret slightly less every year. I'm less interested in a generic mountain silhouette unless it's your mountain, with your reason for wanting it. Bring me the specific thing. That's always the better board.