Steven Valiere
After thirty five years of international surfing, Steven Valiere doesn’t just know his subject matter-he’s lived it every day of his life. A self-schooled artist with very little formal training, Steven works in acrylics to create bold, multi-layered surfscapes celebrating the joy of carving fades, gouging bottom turns, deep tube rides and sweeping aerials, done with the grace of a Balinese dancer. In Valiere’s mythical paradise of no contest, surf camps, or wet suits, aborigines surf in a dream world – The Art of Surfing.
As a teenager in southern California during the sixties, surfing was the driving force, rock ‘n roll the heartbeat and art the soul that shaped Steven Valiere’s world. The North Shore of Oahu and Maui in the fall and winter of 1970 opened his mind and eyes. The new places and faces stimulated a curiosity to expand his horizon. In early 1972 he boarded a plane to Peru, promising to return to college in a year but Stevens education was taking a different path. Valiere’s odyssey took him to some of the worlds most remote spots in an extraordinary adventure the most surfers only dream of. From Peru to Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, and uncharted villages of Papua New Guinea, Steven surfed virgin tubes of no name and no end.
Valiere has resided in the Hawaiian islands since 1978 and the memory of awe inspiring waves and aboriginal cultures he lived side by side with, would never leave him. Steven continues his passions for surf, travel, and painting, living on Kauai’s north shore.
“Being within and a part of the energy of a swell formed from a huge storm somewhere and climaxing in perfection along a reef or shore…it’s what surfing is all about. Sharing that energy has always touched on the mystical for me and I want to share that with others through my art. Today I’m inspired by my children’s surfing and their generation, the cultures and arts of peoples throughout the world, four decades in the ocean.”
– Steven Valiere
Yowzaaa
Original acrylic on canvas
YAHOOO
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 14
Wrapped in Gold
Acrylic on canvas 20 x 30
Wings Out
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Wild Ride
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 24
Whiplash
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 14
Whanga
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Watch
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 12
Watch the Curtain Call
Original acrylic on canvas 14 X 18
Warm Sky
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Violets R Blue
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Under the Weather
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Under the Copper Top
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 14
Tropical Rhythm
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Tropical Fruit
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Touch the Roof
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 24
Top View
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Tight Lipped
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Thirst Quench
Original acrylic on canvas 24 X 18
Team Ernie
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 30
Tapped In
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Tangerine Man
Original acrylic on canvas 24 X 12
Swing Action
Original acrylic on canvas 30 X 20
Split the Difference
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Speed Arching
Acrylic on canvas 30 x 20
Soul Arch Aim
Original acrylic on canvas 48 X 36
Soon Revealed
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 24
Solo Sawt
Original acrylic on canvas 24 X 12
Simple Toob
Original acrylic on canvas 14 X 18
Simple Toob 1
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Silver Clouds
Original acrylic on canvas 14 X 18
Shadow Box
Original oil on canvas 20 X 16
Searching Gold
Original acrylic on canvas 14 X 18
Scoop N’ Dip
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 24
Salmon Run
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 24
Running for Daylight
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Run 4 Fun
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 14
Rollin’ Greens
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Right On
Original acrylic on canvas 14 X 18
Riff
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Red Sky
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 14
Red Sky Morning
Original acrylic on canvas 15 X 30
Red Skies in the Morning
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 24
Red Eye Run
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 30
Rascals in Paradise
Original acrylic on canvas 48 X 60
Racer’s Edge
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Purple Tips
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Play Me a Song
Original acrylic on canvas 33 1/2 X 59
Pillow Talk in Blue Romance
Original acrylic on canvas 28 X 64
Orange
Original acrylic on canvas 24 X 18
Orange Sunshine
Original acrylic on canvas 24 X 20
Orange Lite
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 22
Orange Arch
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 14
Off the Wall
Original acrylic on canvas 30 X 54
No Stoppin’
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 24
Lookout
Original acrylic on canvas 24 X 48
Lookin’ in 2 da Future
Original acrylic on canvas 37 1/2 X 51 1/2
Long & Winding Road
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 39 1/2
Kiwi Dip
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
It’s a Rap
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 30
It’s a Good Day
Original acrylic on canvas 33 1/52 X 53
Inn the Shade
Original acrylic on canvas 30 X 43 1/2
Hookep to Go
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
hook line speed
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 24
Home on the Range
Original acrylic on canvas 22 X 16
Heard it Thru the Grapevine
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 24
Girlz Rip
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 14
Green Face
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Graci Tips
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 14
Gotta Moment
Original acrylic on canvas 30 X 15
Got Your Back
Original acrylic on canvas 42 X 28
got the blues
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 24
Goofy World and Friends
Original acrylic on canvas 24 X 36
Good Times
Original acrylic on canvas 36 X 24
Good Times with Fido
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 24
Golden Moment
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 20
Gold Tip
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 24
Go!!!
Original Acrylic on Canvas 15 X 30
Glowing Report
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Follow True
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Fly By
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 24
Fiji Magic
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 24
Fiji Girl
Original acrylic on canvas 24 X 18
Falling Darkness
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 24
Evening Thots
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Empty Bowl
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 16
Drop
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 14
Drop In
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Dread Purps
Digg’ N It
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Curve
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Curler
Original acrylic on canvas 14 X 18
Crimson Lines
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Copper
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 30
Comin’ Thru
Original acrylic on canvas 14 X 18
Clean Run
Original acrylic on canvas 14 X 18
Cave Dweller
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 24
California Dreamin’
Original acrylic on canvas 24 X 24
Burnin’ Vertical Redirect
Acrylic on canvas 20 x 30
Bright Shiny Day
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 24
Bright Morning
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 14
Boy’s Song to His Dog
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Blue
Original acrylic on canvas 14 X 18
Blue Strip in the Sky
Original acrylic on canvas 24 X 20
Blue Pointer
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Blister of the Sun
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Big Head
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Big Brother
Original acrylic on canvas 22 X 16
Back Up Plan
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Back Stab
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 20
Avalanche
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Archy
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Archy Back
Original acrylic on canvas 24 X 18
Arch N Smile
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 14
Apples 2 Oranges
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 16
Angel
Original Acrylic on Canvas 20 X 16
All Blue
Original acrylic on canvas 16 X 20
Acid Test
Original oil on canvas 36 X 48
A Touch of Silver and Purps
Original acrylic on canvas 18 X 14
A Splash on the Wild Side
Original acrylic on canvas 28 X 22
A Flower
Original acrylic on canvas 20 X 30
falling darkness
hook line speed
simple-toob
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