Steven Valiere doesn't just know his subject matter, he's been living it every day of his life.
As a teenager in southern California during the sixties, surfing was the driving force, rock ‘n roll the heartbeat and art the soul that shaped Steven Valiere’s world. 

The North Shore of Oahu and Maui in the fall and winter of 1970 opened his mind and eyes. The new places and faces stimulated a curiosity to expand his horizon.  In early 1972 he boarded a plane to Peru, promising to return to college in a year but his education was taking a different path.  Valiere’s odyssey took him to some of the worlds most remote spots in an extraordinary adventure that most surfers only dream of. From Peru to Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, and uncharted villages of Papua New Guinea... Steven surfed virgin tubes of no name and no end.  

Steven lives a slower paced life these days, spending his time painting, gardening and landscaping, writing his auto-biography, and a bit of surf when he can.