{"id":88518,"date":"2025-08-22T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/88518\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:53:08","slug":"n-b-painter-finds-success-and-adrenalin-rush-combining-art-with-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/88518\/","title":{"rendered":"N.B. painter finds success \u2014 and adrenalin rush \u2014 combining art with sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New Brunswick-based artist has found international success with her live sports painting.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bronwyn Celeste has painted in sports arenas across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and beyond.<\/p>\n

Live sports painting is the art of capturing a moment of the game\u00a0as it happens. The artist begins painting at the start of match and finishes it when it’s over.<\/p>\n

“It’s good because it challenges you as an artist,” Celeste said. “It can be stressful, yes, but it also is a bit of an adrenalin\u00a0rush, if I’m being honest.”<\/p>\n

The earliest instance of this art form can be traced back to ancient Egypt and Greece, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website.<\/p>\n

Celeste spent her childhood in Fredericton, where high school teachers encouraged her to pursue this fast-paced form of art work.<\/p>\n

“My first ever live painting was at a coffee house at Leo Hayes High School, where the [musical] sets were typically about 15 minutes long.”<\/p>\n

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This New Brunswick artist turned her passion for art and sports into an international success.<\/p>\n

Growing up, Celeste felt she had to choose between her love of sports and her love of art.<\/p>\n

“You couldn’t really be both,” she said. “I just had this kind of moment, where I went, ‘Well, why can I not be athletic and artistic at the same time?'”<\/p>\n

She has since turned her twin passions into a career, with a mission to introduce fine art to people who may not have had much exposure to it.<\/p>\n

Alongside live painting, she has also re-imagined logos for popular sports franchises.<\/p>\n

She was visiting her father when she learned how the\u00a0National Football League’s\u00a0Buffalo Bills reacted to her depiction of them.<\/p>\n

“I burst into the other room and said I can’t believe it, the Bills have reached out and said they love the piece that I did!” said Celeste.<\/p>\n

\"ACeleste and Jason Hartlund, the Buffalo Bills’ chief commercial officer, holding the art that lives in the team’s head office. (Bronwyn Celeste)<\/p>\n

When you walk into the head office of the Buffalo Bills, you can see Celeste’s painting hanging on the wall.<\/p>\n

She has\u00a0worked with the National Basketball Association’s Chicago Bulls, as well as with two hockey teams in the Maritimes, Halifax’s Mooseheads and Moncton’s Wildcats, a hockey team in Croatia,\u00a0and even at the Bentley Scottsdale Polo Championships in Arizona.<\/p>\n

“That was an amazing feeling and really affirming the sports artwork I’ve been aspiring to do,” said\u00a0Celeste, who has also painted at polo matches in the U.K.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though she has found success with teams like the Bills, she still keeps her community close.<\/p>\n

“I love working with local teams,” Celeste said. “I think it’s really special that we highlight the gifts that we have here and the people that we have who play sports.”<\/p>\n

One of her close-to-home live paintings was done at the Aitken Centre in Fredericton.<\/p>\n

She will set up her easel right in front of the glass in the arena, with one of the best seats in the house.<\/p>\n

The Three Defensemen,\u00a0was painted live at a University of New Brunswick\u00a0Reds men’s hockey game and was one of her first paintings for the team.<\/p>\n

\"ThreeCeleste shows her live painting The Three Defensemen to UNB Reds players Oscar Plandowski, Sam McGinley and Colton Kammerer, who are featured in the work. (Bronwyn Celeste)<\/p>\n

“I think we all thought it was really cool having her come in and do the painting,” said team captain Colton Kammerer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We were very focused on the game itself and didn’t pay too much attention to it, but seeing the final product afterwards was quite impressive.”<\/p>\n

Besides being\u00a0the team’s captain, Kammerer is a shutdown defence player, with an on-ice mission to block some of the opposing team’s top players.<\/p>\n

He said he had never heard of live sports painting until Celeste came to a Reds game.<\/p>\n

“Chicago Bulls, the Bills, those kinds of names, to have the Reds in there as well, beside those professional teams, is something that is pretty cool,” Kammerer\u00a0said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Brunswick-based artist has found international success with her live sports painting.\u00a0\u00a0 Bronwyn Celeste has painted in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-88518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}