Outsides Coffee Hatch, Raglan, New Zealand

Outsides:
Named after the infamous local point break and responsible for pumping out gallons of high grade coffee to the keep the Raglan population sufficiently wired.

Boardstix Demo Mount Maunganui New Zealand

Kia-Ora!

To prove that my time in New Zealand has not been all about barbeques and surfing, here are some pics from a recent Boardstix demo I did at Backdoor surfshop Mount Maunganui…

Staff member @louloulablue's underwater theme board.

Light sanding, draw, lacquer. Eeasy-peeasy!

Kiwi hotshot champ Alex Dive gets 2nd job as an easel.

If you are reading this in the UK and want Boardstix to be available at your local surf/skate shop just get your friendly shop manager to email me cosmicimages@live.com and you could win a few pens. 

Haere ra,

Cosmic

Flow State -Exhibition

'FLOW STATE' AT THE HESELTINE 'FLOW STATE' An exhibition exploring the art and cultural connections between surfing and skateboarding.   Private View: Friday 16th May 2014  6 - 8pm Optional Dresscode: casual enough to paint in! For this event please use the parking facilities by the Ben Ainslie Sports Centre. Disabled parking is available at the front of the chapel. Exhibition Dates: Saturday 17th May - Saturday 14th June 2014 Gallery Opening: Monday - Friday 5-7pm, Saturdays 11am - 5pm & by appointment: 01326 210730   Reknowned names in the worlds of surf, skateboarding and graffiti, celebrate the artistic expression throughout these popular cultures of the South West.  Artists, board makers, ceramicists, photographers, & film makers include   Ben Cook,  Kevin Cooper,  Craig Bracefield, John Eldridge, Muju,   Russell O’Connor, Leo Sharp,  Mickey Smith, & Jed Stone.   & graffiti artist, Cosmic, will unveil his latest commission......the gallery staircase!  (sponsored by the Friends of Truro School)    Sam Lamiroy, Britain’s top male surfer, will open the exhibition and Cosmic will be encouraging everyone to participate in a live painting session at the Private view.

Called up to the factory...

I called into Beachbeat and Laminations surfboard factory this week to paint some boards and when nobody was looking I made some improvements to the place!

Surfboard Art School!

Get this! These kids at Richard Lander School in Truro get to make their own surfboards at school.

How classrooms should look!

And paint them with me, before they get them glassed at Best Ever surfboards in St Agnes.

The Surfboard Manufacture course is a choice on the school's popular activities week, during the last week of term. 

It was expertly run in the DT rooms. The pupils got to shape their own boards from blanks in whatever style they want. All the boards were really good shapes. I let them do the same with the sprays, and go for any style and content they wanted. Some of the ideas where pure genius!

They designed their own decals!

Paint pen dept.

Boards being glassed back at the factory.

Demo spray.

Beachbeat Demo Centre

Try before you buy... with no obligation.

Call in and ask at Aggie Surf Shop, St Agnes, Cornwall http://www.beachbeatsurfboards.co.uk/

the first Sick Stickks of 2011

Brand new boards with some paint thrown at them.

Carve Magazine Illustration

This month my first illustration for Carve is published!

Carve is a great surf magazine, been going for donkies' years and is a cornerstone of British surfing.

I am very proud and pleased to be illustrating for them.

Your local newsagent should have some copies. If he doesn't, bug the s*** out of him til he does!

limited edition quiksilver tees

!!Just had pics ahead of the press release:

These Quiksilver Limited Edition Organic tees by Cosmic ( me :) will be in the shops in the next few weeks and ALL profits from the limited sale go to the Surfers Against Sewage campaign (S.A.S)

This year Surfers Against Sewage campaign are 20 years old!

SAS were formed, and still operate, from the village where I live, work and surf.

In twenty years this environmental pressure group has done a heck of a lot to force the powers that be change the filthy, putrid, sewage ridden UK seas (that used to give us all the shits and worse) into clean waters, much safer for recreational use!

They are available in various colours and flavours. They are a bit sik though, so make sure you're up to it!

More details to follow as I get them!

You can join SAS here... sas.org.uk

Qbar Falmouth

Heading down to the Qbar in Falmouth's headonistic 'Moor' area to start on the re-furbishment. Has to be finished this Friday! I'll post a few pics on here of the finished result.

This picture is 'before':

BACK TO FISTRAL FOR ANOTHER QUIKIE!!

drawing for quiksilver again this weekend!!! fistral beach quiksilver surf showdown 09, also with legendary guitar manufacturers gibson! live music, surf comp and much booze-ridden excitement!!!! ..and hanging out on the gibson tour bus!!

i have no idea what ill be doing constructively, but it will involve drawing on stuff, having fun, surfing, enjoying the music and beer, and hopefully sun, .. you get the idea!! ::)))

..i was just explaining this to a friend, beth, i bumped into just now in the villiage shop. we were talking about what were doing for the weekend, she says "i need a job where i get to do what i enjoy!" i said "what do you enjoy?" and the conversation lead onto photography, travel, food (but not a chef!), maybe organizing foodie nights, etc and i suggested blogging as a way to share and focus on her interest..

..kind of reminded me why i started this.

..so when beth starts her blog ill post a link here. she suggested a great name.

have a good weekend! come to newquay!!

cosmic

boardmasters drawing for quiksilver

more pics here
i was hired for quiksilver at this years relentless boardmasters festival in newquay. i had a great time! and drew all day every day. only stopping to eat, go for a pee and a surf at the end of each day. someone worked out that i drew on about 80 hats and t-shirts each day.
i slept for fifteen hours last night.

"could ya chuck a wave on me window?"

New window graphics for Chops at Aggie Surf Shop, St Agnes, Cornwall.