GALLERY 3

SUMMER ACTION SPORTS ART

By Sports Artist Hanne Lore Koehler

The Summer sports art in this gallery features hand-painted original watercolor, oil on canvas or acrylic paintings by contemporary sports artist, Hanne Lore Koehler. The summer action sports art below includes original paintings, summer sports art prints, sports art posters, sports collectibles, sports art cards, canvas prints and murals. Choose from summer kayaking painting, kayaking art, kayaking art prints, kayaking art posters, kayaking prints, kayak art prints, white water canoeing art, white water canoe prints, wind surfing prints, surfing action prints, surfing art prints, Tour de France cycling poster, Tour de France art prints. Buy direct from artist at artist studio gallery, summer Olympic sports painting, synchronized swimming painting, synchro-swim prints, synchronized swimming art, diving prints, scuba diving art prints, surfing art prints, water sports art prints, white water rafting prints, mountain biking art prints, white water canoeing art prints, summer sports art prints. Purchase gallery direct buy, thoroughbred horse racing art, equine art, horse racing art print, horse racing painting, horse racing poster, Triple Crown prints, Kentucky Derby art prints, Preakness Stakes painting, Belmont Stakes art prints, Queen's Plate prints, Prince of Wales Stakes images, Breeders' Stakes art print and more.

Buy direct from sports painter, Hanne Lore Koehler online below or in person at my studio and save on retail gallery commissions. Add a celebrity sports action portrait art print to your sports collectibles. Inquire about the availability of an original painting shown below, a price for ordering a painting of a favorite sports scene in your personal photograph collection or the commission of a sports celebrity painting for your fundraising project. All commissions are hand-painted personally by artist Hanne Lore Koehler. We deliver worldwide. International clients welcome!

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Eskimo Rolls

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River Rush

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Taming Of The Chute

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River Rocket

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To Conquer White Water

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The Explorers

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Getting Air

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Exploring New Worlds

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Henley On The Horizon

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For The Roses

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Hang Ten

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Surfer Girl

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Rollin' On The River

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Rocky Mountain High

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Cutting The Surf

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White Water

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Jet Blue

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Catch The Wind

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Muskoka Woody

Hanne Lore Koehler:

"Most of my sports paintings could have the same title: ANTICIPATION. They depict that moment when you hold your breath and wonder if the athlete will "make it". My love for action and fascination with capturing a flash of movement in this motionless art form should be evident in my sports paintings. Only the experience itself can compare with the delight I feel when I have captured an athlete in the excitement of the moment, in anticipation of the next jump, wave or whirlpool. Every athlete, professional or amateur, can identify with the adrenaline rush felt in that instant portrayed in my painting. This work for me is revitalizing, refreshing, uninhibited."

When composing a sports action painting, I usually paint my subjects in detailed realism, concentrating on a focal point, an area of the painting to which I want to draw attention. Contorted faces straining to keep a canoe on course through white water rapids, beads of water sliding down the sides of a colorful kayak as it emerges from a swirling eddy, muscles tensed on the mountain biker, the thoroughbred race horse, the wind surfer soaring high above a monster wave - it is the capture of this action that fascinates me.

In contrast to this detail, my backgrounds are impressionistic. A spray of water as a wave smashes against a boulder distorts details of the background in actuality; so, why not paint it that way? In reality, the eye tries to focus on the action of the subject and details of the background do not register on the brain. Details disappear into peripheral vision. It is this contrast in styles - the realism against the impressionism - that creates the tension, the excitement, the movement in the painting,"

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