Oil on canvas board, 5″ x 7″.
Available here.
I don’t know that I’m in purgatory, but I’m certainly in an in-between place just now, with the end of the month deadline looming for vacating my studio.
But the Sufjan/Gallant below makes me feel better. Beautiful music is medicine.
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Tagged Blue Bucket of Gold, Gallant, Katie Hoffman, Purgatory, Sufjan Stevens, The In-Between Place
I was ahead and now I’m playing catch-up. Funny how quickly that can happen. Day 7’s painting is “On Deaf Ears,” 5″ x 5, oil on stretched canvas.
It is available here.
The song below is the best song, in my opinion, from XTC’s brilliant mid-eighties album Skylarking. I think it has held up very well over the years.
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Tagged #30 paintings in 30 days, 30 in 30, Dear God, Katie Hoffman, On Deaf Ears, Prayer, Skylarking, XTC
Oil on canvas board, 5″ x 7″
This holiday season I watched the old television production of Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” yet again. It is one of my favorite Christmas stories, and if you haven’t yet read it or listened to it or watched it, I envy you. You’re in for a treat. The closing lines:
And when that happens, I know it. A message saying so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had already received, severing from me an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a kite on a broken string. That is why, walking across a school campus on this particular December morning, I keep searching the sky. As if I expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying toward heaven.
I also love Joanna Newsom’s song, “Flying a Kite.”
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Tagged #30 paintings in 30 days, 30 in 30, A Christmas Memory, Flying a Kite, Joanna Newsom, Katie Hoffman, Kites, Truman Capote
Just over four years ago I lucked into renting an affordable, highly visible studio space in the heart of Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe. It has come to feel like home to me, and my fellow Fresh Art Studios artists – Claudia Roulier, Jon Koenigsberg, Dave Wyzenbeek, Terri Bell, and Anthony Camera– feel like family.
Three weeks ago, we got the sad news that the building has been sold and we are to vacate by the end of January.
I won’t be immediately seeking another public studio space in Denver’s current rent climate. I will be putting the larger paintings in storage for now, and trying to remain optimistic about what 2016 holds in store.
To facilitate this move and the storage, I am offering 25% off of all paintings that are 20″ or larger in any dimension, just until the end of January. You can check out the available works here Katie Hoffman Fine Art, and see a few examples below.
“Crossing the Waters (Flowers for Esmin Green)”
Oil on canvas, 30″ x 40″ $1050 $785 if purchased before the end of January
“Chimera”
Oil on Canvas, 40″ x 40″ $1350 $1000 if purchased before the end of January
“Elephant”
Oil on canvas, 36″ x 36″ $1250 $900 if purchased before the end of January
“This is the Priest All Shaven and Shorn”
Oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″ $935 $700 if purchased before the end of January
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday!
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Tagged Changes, Childish Gambino, Chimera, Crossing the Waters, Denver's art district on Santa Fe, Elephant, Flowers for Esmin Green, Fresh Art Studios, Katie Hoffman, Nothing Gold Can Stay, sadness and change, Studio Closing Sale, The Priest All Shaven and Shorn, What Kind of Love
oil on canvas, 60″ x 48″
I am happy to have finished the largest painting I’ve attempted thus far and grateful for the advice of my trusted friend Dave Wyzenbeek that helped me see this to completion.”Majnun” will be debuting at Core New Art Space on October 1, in a show titled “Ghosts” that I am sharing with the accomplished and gifted altered book artist Valerie Savarie.
I will be present all three Friday evenings of this three-week exhibit, on the 2nd, the 9th, and the 16th, from 6 to 9 PM. I hope you can come by, share a glass of wine, and let me know what you think of the new work.
If you’re interested in knowing more about the ancient story of the star-crossed lovers that inspired this painting, you can learn about Layla and Majnun here. And Eric Clapton once wrote some songs about them, too.
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Tagged Art Denver, CORE New art space, Eric Clapton, Ghosts, Katie Hoffman, Layla, Layla and Majnun, Majnun, Qays, valerie savarie
Today I hung eleven paintings at the Sixth Avenue United Church of Christ at the kind invitation of Joshua North-Shea. I feel an affinity for the UCC, and was involved with the Wheat Ridge United Church of Christ some years ago when my children were small.
The paintings, which will hang there through September and October:
“Faith”
“Decent”
“Prodigal”
“The One You Feed”
“Rebecca at the Well”
“Mute Procession”
“The Still Small Voice”
“AndSoButThen”
“When I Am in the Ground and Dream of You Still”
Also, I participated in World Art Drop Day by leaving this little owl outside:
Art Drop Day is when original works of art are left around for strangers to find and take.
I think my choice of location may have been ill-considered, though. The wind is picking up, and this little watercolor may just be ruined by rain and traffic and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Ah, well.
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16 New Monotypes. These will be available at my 900 Santa Fe Drive studio. The studio will be open this evening, Friday July 10 from 5PM until 9PM, tomorrow, Saturday July 11 from 10AM until 3PM, and Friday July 17 from 5PM until 9PM.
And an inexplicable melancholy on this sunny, soggy, drippy day in Denver.
Perhaps the coming snowstorm will brighten my mood.
“Cowardly Lion,” oil on canvas board, 5″ x 7″
I will have the studio open tomorrow from 5 until 9. I think.
I haven’t much been here lately, but it has been a busy beginning to 2015. I was excited to participate in The Art of Winter exhibit at the invitation of Jennifer Mosquera. I had a blast painting my snowboard piece, which was displayed at DIA. 
I was flattered to be asked to show at Valkarie Gallery as a guest artist in the Resident Artists’ Gallery, at the invitation of Valerie Saverie. I’ll have 3 of my new paintings from the House that Jack Built series there through March 1. 
I am thrilled to have had “Because it is Bitter” accepted into Core New Art Space‘s national show, “Losing Love.” This show was juried by Niza Knoll, opens this Friday February 13 and runs through March 1. 
I have recently opened an Etsy Shop for my watercolors and small oils and have been immersed in trying to learn what the heck I’m doing there. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new Latin conjugations? At least, you can try. My shop is here. And finally, I’ve been remaking my website. The software I’ve been using for almost ten years is obsolete, so I was forced into a long-overdue rehaul. You can see the site, katiehoffman.com, here. It is still a work in progress but I’m having fun learning about Sandvox and what I can do with it. I hope your 2015 is off to a good start, wherever you are. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpFvqibrURk
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Not really. But it does close at Core New Art Space tomorrow at 4 PM.
Those paintings will be showing their selves in my studio after that.
They are:
This is the House that Jack Built
oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935
This is the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built
oil on canvas, 24″ x 24″, $750
This is the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built
oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935
This is the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built
oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935
This is the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat that Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built
oil on canvas, 24″ x 24″, $750
This is the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built
oil on canvas, 24″ x 24″, $750
This is the Maiden All Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built
oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935
This is the Man All Tattered and Torn who Kissed the Maiden All Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built
oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935
This is the Priest all Shaven and Shorn who Married the Man all Tattered and Torn who Kissed the Maiden All Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built
This is the Cock that Crowed in the Morn and Waked the Priest all Shaven and Shorn who Married the Man all Tattered and Torn who Kissed the Maiden All Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built
oil on canvas, 24″ x 24″, $750
This is the Farmer Sowing her Corn that Kept the Cock that Crowed in the Morn and Waked the Priest all Shaven and Shorn who Married the Man all Tattered and Torn who Kissed the Maiden all Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built
oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935
This is the Horse and the Hound and the Horn that Belonged to the Farmer Sowing her Corn that Kept the Cock who Crowed in the Morn and Waked the Priest all Shaven and Shorn who Married the Man all Tattered and Torn who Kissed the Maiden all Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built
oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935
Paint Fumes 