When art and sport come together, awe-inspiring imagery and experiences are born. There is no better example of this than when world-class artists are chosen to create artwork for the Olympic Games.
Simon Bull was selected alongside Thomas Kinkade to commemorate the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Regarding the event, then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani commented that Bull was “one of the most popular and collected living artists of our time” in a written statement.
This isn’t Bull’s only connection to the Olympics. In 2012, Bull painted a portrait of Olympic 10,000-meter gold medalist Mohamed “Mo” Farah on behalf of the Mo Farah Foundation. Bull also had the honor of working with another Olympian, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, in 2004 on a limited series of paintings. Ali competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, then known as Cassius Clay.