BIO

For me, the ocean is the ultimate expression of the natural world’s beauty and power. And when we get to experience the ocean's beauty and power with all of our senses all at once, that special moment is remembered for a lifetime. My goal is for these sculptures to elicit the emotions of wave riding by accurately capturing the dynamics of breaking waves, to reflect the ocean's beauty, and to celebrate the wonder of waves.

I was born in 1974 in Prague, Czech Republic and have lived and surfed in Orange County, California since 1984. I now live in Mission Viejo where I work from a home studio.

Currently my primary medium is polymer clay. I build each wave form by hand, heat-harden it, and refine the surface through a subtractive process using custom sanding tools. Larger pieces are developed through iterative hardening and sanding stages. Some pieces incorporate natural materials that I select for their ability to suggest the type of wave that might break harmoniously with them.

If you are like me and you like to stare at waves all day, enjoy!

More insight...

My artistic vision comes from my love of surfing and is deeply rooted in my reverence for the interconnectedness of the natural world. For example, the phenomena that create waves—the sun’s energy heating the Earth’s atmosphere forming global weather systems nourished and circulated by oceanic currents, to the tectonic forces slowly sculpting the coastlines that waves break upon—to me, reveal a remarkable elegance. I see this elegance mirrored in our ability as humans to perceive and appreciate the transcendent beauty of the natural world through both our physical and spiritual senses. In the future series I have planned, I will further explore these concepts with new sculptural forms that continue to celebrate the beauty and wonder of waves.

I used to work as a civil engineer with a leading role in major infrastructure projects throughout Orange County. Yet despite my professional success, my career did not satisfy my creative passion nor did it facilitate the healthier lifestyle I wanted to pursue in order to keep surfing for as many years as possible. I felt compelled to make a significant change and started to prepare an exit strategy. After almost 6 years of planning and dreaming I realized the only thing stopping me was my job. So I quit and am now fully devoted to sculpting waves, and of course surfing more.

I've been surfing since my early teens and feel blessed to have experienced many waves all along the mainland coast from San Francisco to Cabo, Hawaii and some international locales as well. I mostly shortboard, but I also very much enjoy riding my longboard and other boards too. I like to jokingly consider myself to be the world's best Czech surfer. There can't be too many of us out there, and nobody has disputed it yet!