Residing currently in Prescott, Arizona, John Coleman started his professional artistic career at 44 years old. Today, Coleman is known for his narrative sculptures and his paintings, all of which emphasize technical accuracy and the conveyance of emotion. As a child, his mother’s support helped foster his interest in art, and Coleman remembers fondly family trips to Laguna Beach where he “first fell in love with the smell of oil paint” while walking through art stores. To inspire his artwork, Coleman looks to Western artistic icons such as Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. In addition, viewing Western films “flooded his imagination with subject matter,” which has led to an interest in depicting Native Americans in his work. Regardless of subject, Coleman feels compelled to communicate to others his passion for representing figures and narratives of the American West.

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