The start of something big.
Freedom 1900 | The invention of the safety bicycle in the late 1880s revolutionized women’s lives by providing unprecedented personal mobility, transforming practical fashion, and fueling the broader women’s rights movement at the time.
I drew this picture of women being released into the air on their bicycles when I was working on a project for World Bicycle Relief Fund – as I found it thematically similar. Both dealt with issues of self-empowerment and freedom.
At one time, I even considered using the image as a poster for Tour de France – Femmes avec Zwift. I still like it but not for that, I think it’s more emotionally infused than what a Tour poster wants to be. I do however have a series of concept drawings in the same vain but not sure what to do with them yet. If you might have any ideas, please let me know, I’d love to discuss it with you.
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Artist: Michael Valenti
Michael Valenti creates unique Cycling Art from Iconic Races, Places and Faces around the world. With over 100 different digital art prints, watercolor original paintings and large acrylic paintings on canvas there’s new work to enjoy all the time.
Michael’s drawing on location work has brought him to over 60 UCI World Tour stages including the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia, Tour Down Under and many more.
Private commissions and event design projects for marketing and merchandise are also a large part of what Valenti Cycling Art is all about.