Wayne Dean

I looked at the prayer flags. The wind blowing from the mountains flicked them gently. ‘You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,’* I said to myself.

Wayne Deane sat for this interview with me in 2006. We were working together a bit then: he was glassing, sanding, and making the fins for a small run of surfboards I'd shaped for customers that featured Mark Sutherland's ‘Dream’ artwork.