Boss Dog
Mikey McKennedy is a skateboarder and artist I’m an artist and a creative spirit who grew up skateboarding and making art so my creative process always takes in everything that I thought that was cool when I was a…
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Goblyn Crew
Goblyn Crew is run by Dan Robinson a skateboarder and illustrator who creates 3D design, ceramics and clothing Skateboarding and art go hand in hand. Skateboarding is an art form and there are so many skateboarders out there killing…
Benny Brown
Benny is an illustrator and skateboarder from Felixstowe Drawing and skateboarding are my two main passions in life and I’m lucky to spend most of my time doing both of them. From a young age skating helped me to…
Mister Tucks
Mister Tucks is a skater-illustrator who runs Temple of Skate My real name is Tuck Wai but my friends from the online community know me as Mr Tucks. I’m an illustrator. Skateboarding was my main source of inspiration…
Dylan Goldberger
Dylan is a skater and illustrator living in New York I do a lot of traditional woodcut printmaking and screen printing. Lately I’ve developed a digital style which helps when working on illustrations with clients. I worked part-time…
Arthur Tubb
Arthur is a skater and 3D Animator I think skateboarding, making art and 3D design and my process are all connected, as skateboarding is a combination of the technical and the creative. The physical aspect is good too, as…
Charles Neilson
Charles Neilson is a skater and artist based in Ireland I work in Illustration, animation and motion graphics. I’ve worked for Frank Skateboards, Stance Socks, Grey Skate Mag, FTC Barcelona and Brut Magazine. I spend my time skateboarding or making…
Nelson Flores
Nelson is a skateboarder and oil painter from Arizona My creative process has always been what skateboarder, or skate image gets me hyped me the most. I have to find that perfect reference image of them that makes…
Dan Joyce
Dan is a skateboarder and filmmaker and photographer. He starred in MTV UK’s ‘Dirty Sanchez’ I run my own film company Joyce Division and I have started taking 35mm photography and I’ve just made my first zine this year.…
Yoon Hyup
Yoon is a skater and artist who lives in New York I paint what I see, remember, listen and feel, but I don’t necessarily call it realism. It’s more abstract, so to speak. I mostly paint on walls or…
Jacopo Tardito
Jacopo is a skater and photographer who lives in Barcelona My name is Jacopo, I grew up in Northern Italy and have lived here in Barcelona for the last ten years. I first started to skate in the…
Andrew Durgin Barnes
Andrew is a skateboarder and oil painter based in New York City I am a painter, but I have many other interests including skateboarding. Well, I think skateboarding itself is an art, a sort of physical performance art…
Kim Sedman
Kim is a skater and illustrator based in London After I broke my leg I realised I couldn’t physically be a part of the skate scene in the way I once was so I started drawing my friends skating…
Dinero DIY
Dinero DIY is a skateable art experience in Spain We are Levanna and Eve. We are skaters, DJs and DIY makers. Art and skateboarding are instrinsically linked and we love to explore ideas that fuse the two together. …
Marc McKee
Marc is a skater and artist from California My name’s Marc McKee but a weird thing to think about is that I was adopted when I was 2 months old, so I must have had a different name before…
Vincent Jugnet
Vincent Jugnet is a skater and filmer from Lyon, France Music is one of the most inspiring things to me, when I hear a song I like, I’ll be thinking right away of how I can edit it, or…
The Hated Skateboards
The Hated are a collective of skateboarders and artists Our relationship with skating is a love/hate one, we love to skate and hate injuries. We love creativity…having an idea and pursuing that into something real is very satisfying. starting…
Leon Was Here
Leon Was Here is a skateboarder who creates animations I steal clips and color on top of them amongst other things. There’s correlations to the process and the time it takes to do these animations, about 6-8 hours for…
Bobbi Abbey
Bobbi is a skater and painter-illustrator based in Leeds When it comes to my creative process skateboarding has always played a huge part. It shaped my style and imagery into what it is now. I spent a lot…
George Yarnton
George is a skateboarder and illustrator based in Ipswich I think skateboarding culture directs almost all of what I make as an illustrator. Most of my inspiration comes from who I meet and see when I’m out and about,…
Russ Longmire
Russ is a skateboarder and illustrator from Liverpool I create black and white, brush and ink illustrations under the name Sketch Stance. The name spawned from a fanzine many years back. I curate monthly exhibitions on the walls at Bold…
Sergio Pontillo
Sergio is a skater and filmer from Napoli, Italy Skateboarding is what led me to start shooting photos and videos, like many others. I owe a lot to it. I’m 25, and I’ve been skateboarding for 12 years…
Andrew Pommier
Andrew is a skater and illustrator from Canada I make drawings and graphics and paintings that are delivered in many ways and executions. When I was growing up skateboarding the creative pursuit seemed linked and inseparable so the skate…
Mark Pritchard
Mark is a skater and painter based in Bristol I moved back to Bristol after being in Sheffield for 8 years, I help out at Fifty Fity Store but I’m pursuing a career in Motion Graphics, Post Production and…
Jake Martinelli
Jake is a skater and filmmaker from London For me as soon as I watched my first skateboard video I wanted to make a video so the relationship of making videos and skateboarding go hand in hand for me,…
Liam Ashley Clark
Liam is a skateboarder and artist based in Norwich, England For me, skateboarding was definitely part of my introduction into a lot of art, along with music, and maybe without skating I wouldn’t even be making art now. …
George Booth-Cole
George is a skateboarder and photographer The connection between instinctual expression and technical ability is just one really important idea in skating and photography as for the most part, you need both to create anything in both mediums. …
Niels Rost
Niels is an artist and skateboarder After living in Colchester for eight years, I moved back to Berlin in 2010, where I’m still living now. In England, aside from gaining a pretty strong Essex accent, I grew up skating with…
Tom Lodge
Tom is a skater and illustrator My work is pretty much all monochromatic pen and ink – I think I might have used colour once upon a time, but I can’t be sure. Even if you don’t take…
Dwayne Coleman
Dwayne is a skateboarder and artist based in London I don’t want to make ‘skart’ – I think most skate-art is pretty bad and repetitive but I don’t wanna say that it doesn’t influence my work. I guess the main…
Lukas Kacevicius
Lukas is a skateboarder and artist Skateboarding and making art is all deeply connected because in a way one can’t be there without another. For me it’s all about the process, the shit you’re going through at the…
Greg Herbert
Greg is a skater and artist My practice mainly uses sculpture, film and animation to explore human impact on earth, the anthropocene and the way we interact with our environment. Skateboarding for me was a huge influence on…
Nathaniel Jones
Nathaniel Jones is a skater and graphic designer based in Bristol My name is Nathaniel Jones. I’m a graphic and apparel designer. Alongside that I sometimes make graphics for brands I’m into like Quartersnacks and The Quiet Life. I also…
William Ryan Coulson
William is a skateboarder and artist based in Canada I skateboard and make stuff. Honestly, I try to get my hands in to everything. Mostly illustration, but I do a bunch of painting, sculpture, motion graphics, furniture design, anything…
Andy Evans
Andy is a skateboarder and filmmaker from Brighton Well, skateboarding and film and video have always gone hand in hand. It’s the evidence of your four-wheeled conquests. I feel I’ve always wanted to document these stand out happenings…
Celeste Pearce AKA Version Girl
Celeste is a skate culture fan and DJ who runs Version Girl I don’t do any one thing, to be honest, I do a selection of things to keep me busy which I enjoy. I love reggae, so I…
Tim Dowling
Tim is a skater and filmmaker-DOP based in California For me, EVERYTHING boils back to skateboarding. Skateboarding and filming skateboarding has defined the way I see the world and it doesn’t matter if I’m shooting a commercial, television show,…
Louis Slater
Louis Slater is a skater and artist who runs Sex Skateboards Lately, I’ve been painting a lot. I think the thing that keeps me painting is detaching my brain from the physical world that we see, and creating something…
Mike O’Meally
Mike is a skater and photographer based in LA I think skateboarding and photography feed off each other – skaters see photos in magazines and online and get inspiration to try tricks, skate hard, go to new places and…
Chris Mann
Chris is a skater and photographer As with many others, skateboarding certainly influenced and continues to inform my interest in photography. It’s rather cliche but photographs are an intrinsic part of how we relate to skateboarding. It’s…
Jenna Selby
Jenna is a skater and photographer based in London For me skateboarding and photography have always has gone hand in hand. I started photographing friends down at Long Live Southbank in the late ‘90’s (which was also around…
Jack Hamilton
Jack is a skateboarder and illustrator based in London I think for me the relationship between art and skateboarding is a close one. If I didn’t skate I would be a completely different person to who I am now.…
Fred Mortagne
Fred Mortagne is a filmer and photographer It’s skateboarding that developed my creative side, so they are definitely totally linked up. I truly think it is something that needs to be promoted. Being creative is something important in…
Vincent Kelsey
Vincent is a skater and filmer who runs Reckless Abandon My names Vincent Kelsey, but everyone calls me Vinnie. I own my own little brand called Reckless Abandon, we make clothing and I do all the illustrations, graphics…
Simon Skipp
Simon is a skater and artist who makes wood carving sculpture My name is Simon Skipp, I use reclaimed skateboards to create what I would call low relief and fretwork style carvings either in the form of wall hanging…
Pani Paul
Pani is a skater and photographer based in London Skateboarding does not inspire my photography. It’s more just something I do to take my mind off photography if that makes sense? Photography is my job you know so…
Cosmo Pyke
Cosmo is a skateboarder, singer-songwriter from South London I think the relationship between skateboarding and making art is an important one. Because the skateboard can be an instrument too and you can make sounds and movements out of…
Sam Hutchinson AKA Blinky
Sam Hutchinson is a skater, artist and photographer based in Leeds I make work using images, sculpture and installation. I also enjoy publishing and book making and use various other mediums when necessary. I feel that although I…
Benjamin Murphy
Benjamin is a skater and artist who lives in London I think that skateboarding was the genesis of my creativity. When I was eleven or so I discovered skateboarding and was instantly hooked on it. But before that, I…
Joe Buddle
Joe is a skateboarder and photographer from London I guess skateboarding and my approach to taking photos are pretty similar. Both take a whole lot of trial and error. Every time I shoot I’m learning and thinking about new…
Gaurab Thakali
Gaurab is a skater and illustrator I think skateboarding and making art are very similar to certain extents and both are heavily intertwined to me personally. I started skateboarding before I started making art and being exposed to…
Vaughan Baker
Vaughan is a skater and artist from England When I think about the relationship of skateboarding, making art and making stuff, I think, yeah of course, I mean it might be different person to person, but for myself it’s…
Tom Delion
Tom is a skater and artist from Deptford Well I’m not the first to say this, but I feel that there are distinct similarities between street photography and street skating. If you go out to shoot without a…
Cosme
Cosme is a skateboarder and illustrator who lives in London Skateboarding has taught me to look at things. I face all things the same way I learned to face a spot or to try a trick. Some days…
Nick Richards
Nick is a skater and filmmaker from Cardiff Skating is open to interpretation on all levels, and the best skate films follow no particular pattern or formula. Most new creations in our world are things that we’ve seen,…
Omar Allsop
Omar is a skater and filmer who runs On Tick I skate, film and make videos with my mates. I also got two part time jobs but, who cares? I always just film with whoever is about and…
Kane Nugent
Kane is a skater, artist and filmer who runs Glue Bag The name Glue Bag came about sometime when I was living in Cardiff. It’s an outdated joke aimed at people who still huffed glue from plastic bags.…
Daryl Dominguez
Daryl is a skater and DJ sponsored by Vans Skateboarding is an expressive and creative art form in itself, so naturally the relationship it shares with other creative outlets like art and music are similar. They vibrate on a…
Dave The Chimp
Dave is a skater and artist who makes art, music and video I do many things that fall under the broad description of “art”. Today I am writing a song and planning to go out painting graffiti tonight,…
Jon Horner
Jon is a skater and illustrator When I’m working I can get pretty tightly wound. I tend to do long hours hunched over at a desk so any chance I get to go and flail around near a…
Danny Bulmer
Danny is a skater and photographer from Bournemouth Skateboarding and documenting the act itself go hand in hand. To me, there is nothing better than being able to freeze time, rewind and then relive the moment! I…
Domas Glatkauskas
Domas is a skater and artist who lives in London I skate and create art pieces. I also work in a school with children on autism spectrum. I learn as much as I can and teach when appropriate. …
Grant Peacock
Grant is a skateboarder and illustrator from Hereford I’m an illustrator at heart but I like to dabble with moving image, film, graphic design and photography. It’s great to learn new skills. I definitely think skateboarding helps me…
Jim Knight
Jim is a skateboarder and filmer-photographer Skateboarding, photography and film are similar in a lot of ways. Each person involved has their own style and always have to bring creativity to any given situation. This is probably why…
Joel Perry
Joel is a skateboarder, motion graphics artist and filmmaker Skateboarding and filmmaking go hand in hand, skating wouldn’t be where it is without the filmmakers. Film lets you document your scene and capture memories. I fuse skateboarding with…
Lewis Royden
Lewis is a skater and photographer from Liverpool I believe having a creative process in your life is essential, skateboarders are lucky cos’ even though skating itself is super creative most skaters have another artistic direction as well. Looking…
Will Berry
Will is an illustrator and skater based in Manchester Skateboarding has inspired me artistically from an early age. The graphics and illustration that were around in the early 00’s shaped me to be the illustrator and designer I…
Ross From Friends
Felix Weatherall makes music as Ross From Friends For me, there has always been an important relationship between skateboarding and music. Not only in a directly audio-visual sense, which you see often in a skaters’ music choice in…
Alisdair Smith
Alisdair Smith is a skater and artist from Birmingham As skateboarders we all understand that we have an ability to read architecture in a different way to other people. It’s a uniquely creative skill. But its not just…
Helena Long
Helena is a pro skater, illustrator and musician My name is Helena Long. I skate a lot, drum a lot, work a lot and enjoying illustrating things here and there. I think skateboarding and the other artistic,creative things…
Ozzie Pullin
Ozzie is a skater and director It’s that age old thing that everyone kind of knows and understands, skateboarding and filmmaking go hand in hand. I know quite a few people who started making films through skateboarding and…
George Toland
George is a skateboarder and film-maker based in London I guess when I’m filming I try to make everything look as interesting and captivating as possible. For me that means getting super close to the person I’m filming…
Phil Evans
Phil is a skater and filmmaker who lives in Malmo Sweden I wish I could be more creative on my skateboard but I’m pretty rubbish… So, I guess the creative opportunity for me comes when I get to…
Dan Clarke
Dan is a skateboarder and illustrator from London A lot of my inspiration for drawings and paintings come from my roots in skateboarding. My everyday observation of space and architecture is influenced by searching for skate spots in…
Arran Gregory
Arran Gregory is an artist and skateboarder I think art and skateboarding go hand in hand, I think they both come from a place of playfulness. It’s a very self disciplined form of playfulness. I think a lot of…
Felix Jouanneau
Felix is a skateboarder and bootmaker from London I think that skateboarding has taught me to be patient, which I apply daily to making boots and shoes. I mainly use skateboarding to clear my head when I have…
Nick Jensen
Nick is a pro skater and artist who runs Isle Skateboards Skateboarding and making art both inspire me. I started skating because I saw some cool looking kids doing trick on a park bench and from then on I…
Jean-Charles Leuvrey
Jean-Charles is a skater who runs Hotel Radio Paris I used to work as an international banker but after 10 years away from France, I’m back in Paris working on Hotel Radio Paris. As a kid, I mainly…
Neil Worthington
Neil is a skateboarder and artist who illustrates and paints When I think about it, I picture the origin of true skateboard graphics as the time when skateboarders started too design their own pro board graphics and put their…
Kyan O’Brien
Kyan is a skateboarder and musician from London England Skateboarding is the reason I ended up making music. My first proper job came from skating on the street and meeting a director who got me a job at…
Zin
Zin is a skater and painter from Lithuania living in London My full name is Zilvinas Vaitiekunas but everyone knows me as Zin. I skate and make paintings and also experiment with other forms of visual art, like…
Tom Quigley
Tom is a skateboarder and photographer I don’t know why visual arts have such a great tie with skateboarding – I mean, many have commented on the natural creativity that comes with skateboarding; creativity in terms of movement, style…
Biko Issah
Biko is a skater and artist from London I’ve never really thought about the connection between skateboarding and making art too much. Although, there’s definitely a similarity in the thought process. In the same way that you might…
Mikey Cheah
Mikey is a skater and artist who’s living in Tokyo, Japan I’ve always had respect for technical ability in art and skateboarding although this alone has never held my interest for very long. When I look at skating…
Chewy Cannon
Chewy is a pro skater sponsored by Palace and adidas Basically I see skating as recreating what you see in the vision of your mind. You see. You imagine. You create. Like any art really. A lot of…
Keith Henry
Keith is a skater and photographer based in Vancouver, Canada My father is a great artist so I had a really creative upbringing and skateboarding and photography obviously played a major role in my life from an early age…
Ashley Dhnoa aka The TRiP
Ash is a skateboarder and artist from Birmingham, England There’s a strong connection between skateboarding and illustration. On virtually every skate product there’s a rich, diverse range of illustrations. Every skater knows different skate brand styles. As skaters…
Chris Morgan
Chris is a skater who runs Science Skateboards Skateboarding and creativity go hand in hand. The very nature of skateboarding is to be creative since we utilise the streets and architecture in ways that they were never intended to…
Jonnie Craig
Jonnie is a skateboarder and photographer based in London I think the connection between skateboarding, photography and film is harmonious. Growing up skateboarding, I think there is the natural urge to record what you’re doing and that ultimately…
Fos
Fos is a skateboarder and artist who runs Heroin Skateboards My urge to skate, paint, design, film tricks and edit videos all come from the same place. I think skateboarding, making art and my creative process are all related.…
Alex Waldmeyer
Alex Waldmeyer is a skater and photographer based in Australia What’s your full name, where did you grow up and where do you reside now? Alexander Waldmeyer, Northeast suburbs of Melbourne, Australia and Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, England …
Simon Peplow
Simon Peplow is a skater and artist from Birmingham Skateboarding and art are inextricably linked – one informs the other & vice versa. Both are legit lifestyle pursuits which require boundless energy, creativity, imagination, contemplation, integrity and heart.…
Neil Bailey
Neil is a skater and musician from Birmingham I like playing in bands and there’s so many aspects of skating that you can take into your music, and I am liable to bend your ears about that, especially when…
Joe Gavin
Joe Gavin is a pro skater, artist and filmmaker I think I’m one of those people who always wants to make something. Whether it’s skateboarding, film, art or whatever! I just need to keep busy and all those…
Kyle Platts
Kyle is a skater and illustrator based in London My name is Kyle Platts, I grew up in Sheffield and I’ve been living in South East London since 2008. I think the key to making art and to…
Eloise Dorr
Eloise is a skater and artist What do you think about skateboarding, making art and your creative process? I’ve always seen art and skateboarding as very similar creative outlets – that’s why the two fields cross over in so…
SENDAWG
SENDAWG is a skateboarder and hiphop musician “I MAKE MUSIC AND SKATE BECAUSE I ENJOY TO CREATE”
Alice Price Styles
Alice Price-Styles is a writer, actor/filmmaker, and DJ based in London
Greg Conroy
Greg is a skater who runs Serious Adult Skate Company. I’m a decorator and in my spare time I draw, what I hope, are funny insights into the skateboarding community. I think skating as a hobby, pastime or…
Jack Brooks
Jack is a skater and filmer for Palace Skateboards Generally my creative process when I film skateboarding is that I try to make the spot that I’m filming at look good and get the best angles. Usually I attempt…