Bill coleman artist biography
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It&#;s a special pleasure for us to feature one of our own as the Artist of the Month. It was Bill Coleman who first came up with the idea of this feature for the Image website when he was working as Image&#;s Managing Editor from to Like every ME who has worked for Image, he left his distinctive imprint on the journal and its programs—in particular, helping to give the Glen Workshop its current vision and format.
But it&#;s Bill as a young poet that we&#;re celebrating this month. It&#;s only appropriate that we first met Bill at Eighth Day Books in Wichita, Kansas—the bookstore that serves the Glen Workshop and many of our other events around the country. He was working there while finishing his MFA in Creative Writing at Wichita State. We knew Bill as a witty, laid-back guy, literate and funny in a dry, quirky, thoroughly cool way. But the moment he submitted his application for the ME position at Image—an application that included his poetry—we realized that he is also
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Artist's Biography
Bill Coleman was born in Ballarat in Victoria in He was known as a painter and a printmaker. Bill Coleman started painting as a child and was encouraged bygd his grandfather who was the Curator of the Ballarat Fine Art galleri. Coleman went on to study commercial art at Brighton Technical College beneath the artist Allan Thomas Bernaldo.
From , Coleman worked as a cartographer and photographic artist at the firm P.C. Grosser. While working as an apprentice for this firm, Coleman studied part part-time at Melbourne Technical College (now the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) from beneath Murray Griffin and Victor Greenhalgh. He also spent weekends at the George Bell School from to , making small figurative prints as part of a group using Bell&#;s improved printing press.
The year saw Coleman involved in his first group exhibition at the Velasquez galleri and in he became a member of the Victorian Artists’ Society and continued to exhibit with them annually.
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William Stephen Coleman
English painter and book illustrator
William Stephen Coleman (–) was an English painter and book illustrator.
Life
[edit]Born at Horsham, Sussex, he was one of the 12 children of the surgeon William Thomas Coleman and his wife Henrietta Dendy; the artist Helen Cordelia Coleman (–) was the fifth daughter of the family.[1][2]
Coleman was unsuccessful in a career as surgeon, and turned to natural history illustration. He collaborated with Harrison Weir, Joseph Wolf and others; in the preparation of the wood-blocks he was assisted by his sister Rebecca. He painted in watercolour, mainly landscapes with figures, in a style with something in common with Birket Foster, and semi-classical figure subjects, related to those by Albert Joseph Moore.[1][3] His classically-influenced works placed him in the "toga and terrace" or "marble school" with George Bulleid, W. Anstey Dollond, Norman Prescott-Davies and Oliver Rh