Guy Coheleach is one of the world's most celebrated and accomplished painters of animals and wildlife. His artistic life has been dedicated to capturing the essence of the animal and conveying the intensity of its being, and its aliveness right down to the glint in its eye.

Born in Baldwin, Long Island, Coheleach studied art and graduated from Cooper Union. After graduation, he worked in commercial art doing illustration. It was not until meeting Don Eckelberry, a recipient of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Master Artist award, that he was inspired to follow his dream of making a living painting wildlife. He has since won numerous awards and honors, including an honorary doctorate from William and Mary College.

Today, Guy Coheleach lives and works in New Jersey, creating oil paintings of wildlife, particularly big cats, of which he is especially fond. Mill Pond Press has published his work since 1990.

Guy has been honored with a number of one-man museum exhibitions, films and books, including The Big Cats: The Paintings of Guy Coheleach (Abrams, 1982); Coheleach (Briar Patch Press 1989); The Best of Wildlife Painting (North Light Books, 1997); and Guy Coheleach’s Animal Art (DDR Publishing, 1994).

Coheleach is a born adventurer who loves to paint. He says, “Given the choice, I could paint predators the rest of my life - tigers, eagles, leopards, dangerous creatures... I love them."

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