Journal

This project is a collaboration with my friend Shinji Asai. It is a surfer's search of the true nature of the mind, based on the story from "Ten Ox Herding". Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding is a series of short poems and accompanying drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of a practitioner's progress toward enlightenment and her or his return to society to enact wisdom and compassion.

This month we caught up with Stockholm-born Surf Rat, Jonas Claesson, the Freshwater Swede whose silky smooth Longboarding Moose has become a global sensation and graces this issue’s cover with the soulful style that’s made him a star.

White Horses Text I’m a Swede living in Freshwater of Australia that loves surfing. It’s surprising to a lot of people, but yes, there actually is surfing up in Sweden. The waves are good sometimes, but we need to wear hooded wetsuits made of whale blubber to stay warm. Just kidding, that’s not true. Whales are magnificent creatures we should respect. Clearly, I have a great love for animals, particularly if they can get pitted on a surfboard, as they are the subjects in most of my artwork. I’ve been drawing animals surfing and doing other stuff for years. A long...

Painted this a few years ago. I hope you like the process as much as I do. Print available in the shop here.     Prints & Framed print