"I'm not a photographer, I'm a painter who uses photography." Surfers in the landscape have remained signature elements in all my artwork for the past decade. I am inexplicably drawn to them. It started with a friend who surfs and my interest grew. My art exudes emotions of joy and bliss as a secondary subject -- both mine and my subjects, captured through photography and transcribed via paint. Through my art, I try to push and play with photography beyond it's traditional limits, I train my lens on surfers and the landscape around them as subject and I try to convey deep meaningful moments of joy visa vis painting expressively in my own dreamy creamy language of color.