As a young child growing up in La Jolla, California, Nicholas Mirandon excelled in the arts, had an amazing sense for design and possessed a powerful creativity. He was an outstanding athlete and waterman and his strong passion for the ocean and surfing in particular woNicholas Mirandonuld lead him to discover his life's work with the resin medium. In 1962, while working for Gordon and Smith surfboards in San Diego, California , he first envisioned using resin as a medium while creating color resin graphics and designs on surfboards. It wasn't until 1967 that he created his first resin painting at his own La Jolla Surfboards in Del Mar, California. For the next ten years, Nicholas developed techniques and experimented with resin colors as an art form and in 1977, he dedicated himself entirely to the resin medium and began to show his work nationwide. Today, his work receives enthusiastic approval and praise whenever he shows it and is consistently a key feature in numerous galleries, major national art shows and museum installations. Mirandon’s artworks astutely combine refinement and drama to convey emotional forces that are simultaneously serene and explosive. They replicate the spontaneity and wonder of nature so that those who own a Mirandon painting have in their life’s environment a visionary creation that communicates daily a gift of creativity, peace, and unmatched energy. Because of their dynamic characteristics, Mirandon paintings bring vitality to any room. The multifaceted intensity of each individual painting reveals the continual ebb and flow of undulating ocean tides and ever-changing, shimmering lightscapes. These painting have a uniqueness that causes them to be living creations, ones that change mood and meaning as different lights fall onto them. From morning until night, the art transforms so that with each passing hour a new image seems to appear. Certainly every painting is highly distinct and exceptional, yet all communicate a compelling truth of existence by divulging the powerful forces that surround us.