Welcome to the
Broken Boards
online exhibition
Linton & Kay Margaret River
13 Sep to 26 Oct 2025
Surfboard or seascape?
Broken or perfectly imperfect?
Broken Boards invites viewers to see with fresh eyes and awaken new possibilities. Featuring photographs of broken surfboards, this exhibition highlights the beauty in imperfection while exploring the power of perspective and the insights to be found in adversity.
For Helen, these broken boards are metaphors for experience and endurance–physical reminders of adventure, loss, repair, and beauty born from vulnerability.
— Urbane Gazette (Vol 7 Issue 1)
Broken Boards is an exploration of perception and transformation, where fractured surfboards emerge as unexpected canvases. These once-functional boards, now weathered and broken, reveal a profound truth: beauty thrives in vulnerability and imperfection. Each photograph captures a moment in time where labels cease to exist and possibilities emerge, opening up a glorious ride on the waves of perception.
Riding the Wave
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
88 x 66cm
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Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
– Vivian Greene
Into the Deep
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
60 x 45cm
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Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.
– Bernice Johnson Reagon
Serenity
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
60 x 45cm
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Serenity is achieved when you change the lens through which you see the world, finding beauty even in the broken.
– Unknown
What appears as wreckage becomes an invitation — to see with fresh eyes and to awaken possibilities. To question labels, recognising that catastrophe and opportunity often share the same shore.
Is it a surfboard or a seascape? Broken or perfectly imperfect? Problem or challenge? As nature shapes these splintered boards, so too does life shape us. We navigate currents of adversity, finding resilience and beauty in fractures.
Washed Away
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
60 x 45cm
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Nothing is lost… everything is transformed.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Saltwater Alchemy
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60 x 45cm
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In chaos, there is fertility.
– Anaïs Nin
Navigating the Storm
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88 x 66cm
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I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
– Louisa May Alcott
Broken, yet extraordinarily beautiful, these boards mirror our own complexities.
This exhibition forms part of my narrative — a vibrant, sensory celebration of the infinite beauty alive in every second of every day and its ability to transform experience, especially when life feels challenging.
Dripping With Promise
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
40 x 30cm
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The overlooked corners often hide the greatest treasures.
– Unknown
Beyond the Break
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
60 x 45cm
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There is no darkness so dense, so menacing, or so difficult that it cannot be overcome by light.
–Vern P. Stanfil
Ebb and Flow
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
60 x 45cm
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I no longer force things. What flows flows, what crashes, crashes. I only have space and energy for things that are meant for me.
– Billy Chapata
Through photography, I invite you to decide what is beautiful and true for you. Join me on this journey beyond the Break, where perception meets possibility.
Rugged Coastline
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
88 x 66cm
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Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.
– Unknown
Peace
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40 x 30cm
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One of the most rewarding and important moments in life is the moment you finally find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.
– Unknown
Crashing Waves
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60 x 45cm
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You are the sky. Everything else — it’s just the weather.
– Pema Chödrön
Accompanying
brochure
available
See the surfboards at
The Sea Garden Cafe
Prevelly, Margaret River
Coastal Labyrinth
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
40 x 30cm
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Tidal Tessellations
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
40 x 30cm
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We are all beautiful mosaics of broken pieces.
–Unknown
Harmony
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
60 x 45cm
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The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
– Caroline Myss
Point Break
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
60 x 45cm
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Sometimes, when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but actually you’ve been planted.
– Christine Caine
Stories of the Sea
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
40 x 30cm
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Reality is created by the mind; we can change our reality by changing our mind.
– Plato
Oceanic Fragments
Limited Edition Art Print (1/3)
40 x 30cm
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Life’s beauty often lies in the fragments we didn’t know we were holding.
– Unknown
THE
STORY
One sunny winter’s afternoon in Prevelly, a hidden treasure was discovered — an inviting cafe nestled by the beach with an unconventional mosaic of surfboards as a fence.
Drawn by curiosity, I stepped closer. And there, in the fractured grain of each board, I found unexpected beauty.
Splintered edges revealed stories of the sea and exquisite sections of abstract art. The cafe’s surfboard fence became my canvas as my lens captured layers of oceanic poetry.
This serendipitous encounter birthed Broken Boards, a two-years-in-the-making exhibition where imperfection transforms into art, and where wisdom echoes through shattered fragments.
See the surfboards at
The Sea Garden Cafe
Prevelly, Margaret River