Phil Goodrich

Phil Goodrich is a trained artist with a degree in Studio Art from Point Loma University in San Diego. He began his career focusing on portraits, mainly of women and blues musicians, but eventually discovered he had a knack for surf-centric art, which he also discovered appealed to a larger audience and sold better than portraits.

As his style evolved and demand for his work grew, Goodrich was able to travel more and more in search of the world’s best breaks, and inspiration for his next paintings. Of all the places Goodrich has traveled, he says Indonesia holds a special place in his heart, both for the quality of the waves and for the inspiration he gets from the landscape and culture.

Goodrich now resides half the year in South Carolina with his wife and dogs and the other half of the year in Indonesia where he sets up a second studio to paint and surf.