{"id":4089,"date":"2022-12-06T11:07:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.steamboatsir.com\/blog\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2022-12-06T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:07:42","slug":"art-in-motion-steamboat-based-oil-painter-joanne-orce-captures-the-beauty-of-athletic-movement-in-this-years-winter-carnival-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sothebysrealty.com\/steamboatsir\/blog\/2022\/12\/06\/art-in-motion-steamboat-based-oil-painter-joanne-orce-captures-the-beauty-of-athletic-movement-in-this-years-winter-carnival-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"Art In Motion – Steamboat-based oil painter Joanne Orce captures the beauty of athletic movement in this year\u2019s Winter Carnival poster."},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many Steamboat locals, Joanne Orce wears many hats. She\u2019s a former competitive triathlete with 7 full Ironmans and some 150 triathlons under her belt. She\u2019s a swim coach and fitness instructor, mother of three, and an artist whose passions for athleticism and oil painting were fused in the creation of this year\u2019s 110th<\/sup> annual Steamboat Winter Carnival poster.<\/p>\n

\"\"Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Orce studied business at the University of Melbourne and then went on to work for Mobil. During a year of unpaid leave to travel through Africa, she met her husband and moved back to his native New York to start a family. That\u2019s where Ken encouraged her to finally pursue a lifelong interest in art, and study illustration at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fell in love with painting when I was pregnant with my second child,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s when I started to do some pretty interesting things with my career.\u201d Her first foray into professional work was painting large-scale carnival sideshow banners. \u201cBig, huge, vivid colorful carnival posters of animals and circus people became my jam,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

As a mother of three, Orce put her career on the backburner until her kids were old enough for her to begin painting again. But it wasn\u2019t long before she was picked up by Gallery 46 in Lake Placid, where she did the exact kind of local scenes that would lead to the work she\u2019s known for today in Steamboat. \u201cI painted a lot of Adirondacks scenes, and a lot of moose and bears, which have become like my signature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orce continues to paint plenty of moose and bears in Steamboat, where she is a co-owner of Pine Moon Gallery and does commission work. But what really separates Orce from other artists is her process. \u201cI stretch my own canvases. I buy strips of wood and stretch Belgian linen over the top and paste rabbit skin glue onto the linen, so it becomes firm like a drum,\u201d she says. She adds other materials to the glue, like marble dust to make her own gesso, (the paste that\u2019s used to form a surface) so she can create the perfect texture to paint on. \u201cIt\u2019s like a science experiment,\u201d she says. \u201cI learned from a teacher back in New York. The old masters used to do it this way, and the gesso lasts forever. Essentially, it\u2019s a centuries-old preservation technique,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Orce prefers the flexibility of oil paint and works in whatever scale and size is warranted by the subject matter, from as small as a few inches to over 9-feet. She draws inspiration from the natural world, especially landscapes and animals. She recently completed 35 pieces in that genre for her current exhibit at Pine Moon called \u201cIconic Steamboat.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the Winter Carnival poster, Orce drew inspiration not only from landscape, but from her roots as a lifelong athlete to arrive at the design that would be at the heart of the painting, a ski jumper in mid-flight. \u201cI wanted the poster to be centered around the kids. One of my friend\u2019s daughters is a Nordic combined athlete, so she sent me photos of Eva jumping and that\u2019s where my concept began,\u201d she says. And of course, there are a few of those bears and moose, too. \u201cI had to throw a few in,\u201d she says with a chuckle. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like Where\u2019s Waldo.\u201d Joanne\u2019s 15-year-old son Kenny, a Winter Sports Club athlete, also makes an appearance on the poster.<\/p>\n

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Orce also polled the kids on her swim team to find out their favorite event, and the consensus was the Soda Pop Slalom, so Orce also integrated that into the foreground, including a lot of detail in what she describes as \u201cthis world on Howelsen Hill.\u201d Orce says coming up with the concept took longer than the execution. \u201cI thought about it for two months. I would ride my bike to Howelsen and sit at the bottom of the ski runs and think about what I was going to do,\u201d she says. Ultimately, she relied on her most trusted sounding board, her 20-year-old daughter Teagan who is currently studying art as a junior at the University of Denver. \u201cShe is my best critic,\u201d Orce says.<\/p>\n

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At the heart of the painting is a study in movement, especially as someone who devotes so much of her life to training athletes. \u201cAs an athletic coach, I appreciate the way the body moves in an athletic environment,\u201d Orce says. \u201cUnderstanding the body and being able to create and that sense of movement is something I really tried to achieve in this painting.\u201d The final 40\u201d x 30\u201d piece will be reproduced for this year\u2019s commemorative Winter Carnival poster, a milestone for this relatively new local. \u201cI\u2019ve only lived here for four years, but have felt so welcomed into this community,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m so grateful to be able to give back to the Winter Sports Club and put my heart and soul into this piece.\u201d \/\/joanneorce.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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