“I was an out-of-control child,” John DeMott says. “I was right-brain from the get-go. We would walk to kindergarten, and sometimes I wouldn’t make it to class, so my mother would come looking for me, and I would be catching butterflies. I did what I wanted to do, not necessarily what I was supposed to do. I have kind of marched to my own tune my whole life.”

He has indeed. But, oh what a tune it is. Today, DeMott is a successful artist—and part-time musician—living in Loveland, Colorado, where he is surrounded by the natural beauty, the people, and the wildlife he portrays in his paintings.

Recalling his childhood, DeMott says he grew up in Southern California, where he and his family lived next door to Western TV stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and attended school with their children.

John DeMott (Colorado)

Wyoming Splendor
Oil
36″x34″
“One of my favorite times of the years is the fall. I love to be in the Tetons, chasing the majestic moose.”

John DeMott (Colorado)

Man in the Wilderness
Oil
20″x30″
“The French Canadian trapper could slip quietly up on game in a canoe to have a successful harvest.”