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J. G. Coleman is a Connecticut-based landscape and nature photographer whose award-winning images are an inspiring celebration of the natural and cultural heritage of the American Northeast.

Building upon an early artistic background in sketching and painting, Coleman ultimately realized an overwhelming passion for artistic communication through the beauty and rhythms of the natural world, as well as the cultural and historical icons of Greater New England. He incorporates into his photography the full range of dynamics in our living landscape, leveraging exquisite light, ceaseless motion of water and wind, transformative power of the seasons and an inexhaustible array of shapes, contrasts, colors and textures.

In addition to extensive editorial and commercial/advertising use and gallery exhibitions, Coleman’s work has been recognized by numerous conservation organizations including the National Park Service, Connecticut Forest & Park Association and local Connecticut land trusts. Coleman’s fine art prints are exhibited in both private collections and professional work spaces alike.

Several hundred examples of Coleman’s work, spanning much of Connecticut as well as Greater New England, are available for review online. However, his full catalog includes tens of thousands of photographs which are otherwise available only upon request. You’re encouraged to contact J. G. Coleman to discuss your project and see the full range of work that may resonate with your vision and satisfy your needs.

Coleman’s interest in art began at a very early age with pen and pencil sketches, transitioning mostly to watercolor painting as a teenager. In time, he found himself fascinated with computer technology and, for nearly a decade, his focus shifted away from traditional fine arts towards computer-based graphics, a field in which he delved into digital art and the elements of visual design. He also worked as a freelance writer on the topics of nature, technology and horticulture. Despite his fascination with digital graphics and writing, crafts which generally required plenty of time in front of a computer, he nonetheless remained an avid naturalist and angler, possessing an affinity for natural places ever since he had been a young child exploring the forests near home or scouring the sandbars of Long Island Sound in the summertime.

By the time he visited Central America in his mid-twenties, photography was one of the few forms of art that Coleman hadn’t sincerely explored. He found the landscapes of Costa Rica to be exotic and enchanting, but couldn’t help but notice that most of the folks who lived there seemed to have grown jaded to the wonders of nature that surrounded them everyday. Likewise, he considered, hadn’t everyone back home grown so familiar with their own beautiful landscapes that they sometimes almost ceased to appreciate them or notice them at all? With this simple realization in mind, he resolved to rediscover the awe-inspiring qualities of his own homeland and digital photography was the perfect medium. Coleman’s passion for visual art and life-long experiences with the landscapes of New England all found a focused form of potent personal expression in his nature photography. When he began to realize that his photography could stir the emotions of others as strongly as the landscapes that inspired his work, he knew that he had discovered his artistic calling.