I tried to approach the surfing theme in a barely hinted way, dwelling more on the poetic, romantic and contemplative aspect of this discipline. To big waves and scenes related to technical sports performance, I preferred dreamlike situations. I began a deep research on color and abstraction to create backgrounds in which the images could merge or rest gently, letting my more graphic and illustrative vein coexist with this new expressive need. I have studied and explored the work of some of my favorite painters of the 20th century including certainly Milton Avery, Mark Chagall, Mark Rothko , Philip Guston, Helen Frankentaler and contemporaries Katherine Bradford and Peter Doig.