The Summer Sports action art in this gallery has been reproduced from hand-painted original watercolor, oil on canvas or acrylic paintings by sports artist Hanne Lore Koehler. Inquire about availability and price of original paintings. Buy direct from the artist at Koehler Art Studio Gallery in person or order online. Save on limited edition fine art prints, summer sports action posters, art prints, canvas prints and original summer sports paintings including: kayaking images, whitewater kayak and canoe paintings, white water rafting painting, Olympic synchronized swimming painting, scuba diving art, wind surfing and surfing paintings, horse racing painting, mountain biking picture, Tour de France cycling action painting and prints.
Commission an original sports painting or sports wall mural or order a limited edition giclee reproduction print of your favorite athlete. Click on image to enlarge, read artist comments below image and see details and pricing of art prints and canvas prints. Kids in sports paintings are in Gallery22. For the other categories of paintings by artist Hanne Lore Koehler please visit our WEB GALLERIES section.
Hanne is featured in the November 2009 issue of Country Woman Magazine
"Most of my sports paintings could have the same title: ANTICIPATION. 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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