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Surf Mama in Huffington Post

March 9, 2017 by Wilma Johnson

Une femme qui apprend à surfer à 44 ans et après 3 enfants, c’était fou et je l’ai fait J’ai aussi appris à ne pas accepter les limites qui me sont imposées par des hommes en shorts en nylon avec des imprimés bizarres. C’est mon message en cette journée mondiale de la femme 2017! WILMA JOHNSON J’ai commencé à surfer à 29 ans. J’ai arrêté une demi-heure plus tard, après les trente minutes les plus longues de ma vie, qui […]

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: surf, surf mama, surfing, women surfing

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Surf Mama at Vagabonde

May 10, 2016 by Wilma Johnson

Vagabonde – Qui va sans cesse d’un objet à l’autre, à l’aventure : Imagination Vagabonde Très contente de faire la première dédicace du version Francaise de Surf Mama le 11 Juin au Festival Vagabonde à Bordeaux, où je vais aussi exposer des toile influencés par la thème de la surfeuse vagabonde…. Very excited to be launching the french version of Surf Mama at the Vagabonde Festival in Bordeaux, where I’ll also be showing some paintings of nomadic surf chicks. Published by […]

Categories: events, surf mama • Tags: Biarritz, festival vagabonde, guethary, surf, surf mama, surfbooks, surfing, travel writing, wilma johnson, women surfing

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Surf Mama in Woman Magazine

October 9, 2015 by Wilma Johnson

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Biarritz, guethary, never too late, surf books, surf mama, surfing, woman magazine, women surfing

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Surf Mama in August Good Housekeeping

July 8, 2015 by Wilma Johnson

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: Biarritz, Good Housekeeping, guethary, surf, surf mama, surfing, travel writing, wilma johnson, women surfing

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A Year in the life of Surf Mama

February 6, 2015 by Wilma Johnson

Categories: Blog, events, Photos, surf mama • Tags: Art Car Boot Fair, Ballydavid, Biarritz, bundoran, guethary, Liverpool, surf, surf mama, surfbooks, surfing, travel writing, wilma johnson

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Surf Mama Promo on Amazon!

February 3, 2015 by Wilma Johnson

  Amazing promo on amazon for the next few weeks – you can get the Kindle version of Surf Mama for only 99P Latest reader review 5.0 out of 5 stars I’m a forty something female surfer (& fine art graduate) & I really enjoyed this book 23 Jan. 2015 By Freckleville Format:Paperback I’m a forty something female surfer (& fine art graduate) & I really enjoyed this book. It starts in the Kingdom of Kerry (last time I surfed […]

Categories: events, surf mama • Tags: amazon, fine art graduate, Kindle, Mama, surf books, surf mama, surfing

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Indian Summertime

September 21, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

Autumn in Olatua isn’t so much the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – it’s more the season of scorching sun, big swells and surf pros slashing across the waves. South winds ice the village with Sahara dust, thunderstorms like Hammer Horror special effects shake the house at night. You have to make the most of the Indian summer , because as anyone who lives here through the year will remind you, in ominous tones reminiscent of Game of Thrones…. ‘Winter […]

Categories: Blog, surf mama • Tags: beach, Biarritz, guethary, st jean de luz, surf, surf mama, surfing

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Surf Mama #1

July 1, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

I arrived in London at my mother’s house and there by the door were these two wooden bellyboards, they brought back vague memories of childhood holidays in Lyme Regis. Stormy days when the whole family would pack a picnic and head off to Charmouth beach to catch the waves under the cliffs, Mary Anning’s dinosaurs embedded in the mud. The children were only allowed waist deep half terrified by threats of currents that would whisk us away, half ecstatic to […]

Categories: Blog, Photos, surf mama • Tags: 80 something, surfing, women surfing

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Surf Mama in Express Monday 9th June

June 11, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

      I turned a mid-life crisis into my great adventure on the waves. Mother-of-three WILMA JOHNSON was in her 40s when she realised all she wanted to diii was go surfing.   Sitting on a deserted windswept beach on the most westerly point of Irelandauthor and artist Wilma Johnson rememebers experiencing a life-changing epiphany. As she watched husband Nick gliding effortlessly across the Atlantic swell she suddenly decided that her mission in life was to learn to surf. […]

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: surf, surfbooks, surfing, wilma johnson

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