John Nelson Battenberg

John Nelson Battenberg (December 3, 1931 – July 8, 2012) was an American sculptor.

An artist named John Goray first influenced him when Battenberg was about 10 years old.

In 2007, Battenberg returned to painting for a number of reasons, one of which was a leg injury which eventually prevented him from sculpting.

In 2009 John began using a technique utilizing a series of layers of painted images sandwiched between an equal number of 1/8” layers of optically clear plastic resin; creating a three dimensionality.

John Battenberg lived his final years in Scottsdale, with his wife Lynn, two cats, an aviary of birds, and twenty-seven Koi fish contained in two outdoor ponds.