Double World Superbike Champion and MotoGP racer James
Toseland is captured in this oil painting by award-winning artist Glenn
Badham.
Launched to coincide with the British round of the 2009 MotoGP season, just 395 numbered prints individually signed by Toseland will be made available.
Isle of
Man-based Toseland began racing motorbikes as a teenager and won the World Superbike
Championship in 2004 and 2007 before moving to the MotoGP series – the
Formula One of bike racing – in 2008.
Glenn Badham, whose paintings are displayed in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords and private
collections around the world, is no stranger to the passion, frustration and
single-mindedness of sportspeople striving to be the greatest, and his recent
projects have included painting the Northants Saints rugby squad.
The
limited edition prints measure 51cm x 66.6cm (22 inches by 26 inches).
"I feel honoured to have been painted by Glenn. He
has captured the excitement and drama of bike racing in a way I didn't think
possible" James Toseland