Welcome to an exciting and dynamic world filled with powerful imagination and realistic visions… Welcome to a world of pure enlightenment, fascination and joy… Welcome to a world of immense creativity and artistic splendor…Welcome to the past and the present… Welcome to the world of Sports Artist - John Yim.

John Yim is a passionate artist with a great love for sports. He is constantly striving to capture the essence and history of our all time great athletes. John Yim is a Realistic Expressionist…he has cited the likes of Leroy Neiman, Stephen Holland and other renown practitioners of action paintings as being influential in his development as an artist. The primary focus of Yim's paintings are directed towards the sports venues…baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, tennis and the like. 

Yim's medium is acrylic on canvas covered with a clear varnish glaze to complete the work. Certain passages are heightened in color and others subdued. Generally his method progresses from a transparent film body of middle tones to an over painting of opaque ones. Yim says "he uses colors in his paintings to capture both the athlete's emotion and his motion. This is accomplished by a deliberate selection of the adjacent colors, utilizing a complement of an opaque contrasting with a transparent effect. This permits the same color to be either flat, a highlight, or an outline to describe whatever is emotionally necessary for the intended function in the portrait. Yim has also been praised for capturing both the essentials and the idiosyncratic characteristics of his subjects. His signature style is characterized by emphasizing a strong intensity and powerful movement of the lines. This unique style effectively presents and captures the athlete in full range of motion thereby offering a true sense of visual reality. His work is a striking and jubilant celebration of today's athlete and a powerful reminder of the great athletes of the past.

Simply stated, Yim's style is truly unique and creative. He offers the old and the new, the past and the present and precision with imagination. The net result is a powerful presentation of the truly great athletes that we have all come to know, revere and admire. 

From the legends of Walter Johnson; the heroics of Johnny Unitas; to the incomparable Michael Jordan, artist John Yim delivers his expressive style in rendering them and many others who have thrilled and captivated millions with their unique talents.

John Hoon Yim, was born in Seoul, South Korea on January 21, 1967. Yim, who arrived in the United States in 1975, has spent the past 25 years in the culturally rich Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area (Maryland Suburban). Studying design and art history at the University of Maryland, Yim's career has been one of complete dedication to refining and honing his craft. Growing up, Yim enjoyed drawing and participating in athletics. Sports Art has naturally become the end product of two passions in his life coming together. According to Yim, a great source of inspiration comes from the client's themselves. 

"The ones who grew up admiring players like Joe Dimaggio, Ted Williams and Jim Brown love to share and impart their knowledge and experiences with me. They help me to understand and to better know the subjects that I paint. Sports' ultimate purpose is to inspire and to entertain, and I in return try to share my art with art lovers, fans and collectors the world over…"