Surf portrait
Titolo: Jack O’neill
Technique: acrylic on canvas-original painting
Size: cm160x140
The surf world mourns yet another iconic figure this week as Jack O’Neill, one of the first to sell surf-specific wetsuits, and founder of one of the world’s first surf shops, has passed away in Santa Cruz .
He was 94 years old.
O’Neill hung a shingle on a small building in lonely, fogbound Ocean Beach, San Francisco way back in 1952. “Surf Shop” it read simply, a concept that hadn’t really caught on yet in Southern California, let alone in the chilly Bay Area. Shortly after, O’Neill began tinkering with making foam rubber wetsuit vests to keep himself a little warmer bodysurfing in Northern California.
