"An artist cannot fail. It is a success just to be one." -Charles Horton Cooley
"The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, speaks to me. And my heart soars." -Chief Dan George
Growing up in western Kansas (native of Hays), I was surrounded by a landscape of extremes . . . a level horizon stretching out forever . . . fields of wheat and prairie grass . . . an immense sky displaying an ever-changing vista of clouds, storms, sunrises, sunsets . . . the zen-like quality of the sparseness of trees and hills . . . the omnipresent wind . . . the changing of the seasons . . . inspired by this amazing environment . . . the patterns, colors, rhythms . I also find inspiration in many modern painters including Van Gogh and the pastelist Wolf Kahn.
I discovered pastel several years ago at a Lawrence Art Center workshop. Since then I have shown my art in several regional exhibits, winning an award at the Wichita Midwest Garden Show as well as a Kansas Arts Commission Mini–Fellowship, 2004 and an award at the Topeka Art Guild Annual Exhibit.
What is pastel?
Pastel is a pure pigment. It’s the same pigment used in making oil and watercolor paints, but it retains its brilliance and luminosity because it’s a dry medium.
Pastel paintings will last at least as long as oils, and will retain their fresh color for hundreds of years, as long as they’re done on an archival, acid-free surface.
SHOWING AT EAGLES' REST NATURAL HOME, 642 LOCUST STREET, NORTH LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAST EXHIBITS:
SMOKY HILL ART EXHIBIT HAYS ARTS COUNCIL Hays, Kansas thru July 7th Juried Show
EXHIBIT AT THE UPSTAGE GALLERY 720 SW Jackson Street, TOPEKA, KS Month of March
September 20-October 10, 2010 Performance "SHOUT" A '60's Mod Musical Artist Reception October 24th at 6:30
Lawrence Community Theatre 1501 New Hampshire Street Lawrence, Kansas
July 22-August 2010 1109 GALLERY All Member Show 1109 Massachusetts, Lawrence, Kansas li>Thru Mid-August with my sister, Robbie Lamoreux of , Kansas
TEAPOURO 712 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas
41st Annual Smoky Hill Art ExhibitionHays Arts Council 112 East 11th Street, Hays, Kansas Juried Exhibit April 30, 2010
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March 2010 Lawrence Public Library, Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas
with fellow Artists, Sandy Craig McKenzie & Marge Banks
2009 Kansans Paint Kansas, Juried Show Topeka Art Guild Topeka, Kansas October - November 2009 LAVENDER CLOUD Awarded a Ribbon for "Honorable Mention"
Gala Opening 1109 Gallery Lawrence Art Guild Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas
July-August, 2009
Unitarian Fellowship Church Lawrence, Kansas
August 5-Sept. 6
Animals and Nature Show 1109 Gallery
July 24- August 21 Lawrence Art Guild
All Member Show Lawrence Art Center Lawrence, Kansas
July1-Aug. 2, 2009 "Wallpaper" Juried Show 1109 Gallery
May 3- June 23, 2009
Douglas County Historic Courthouse Lawrence, Kansas
June 2-29, 2009
Lawrence Art Guild All Member Library Show
Lawrence Public Library
April 24- June 5, 2009
40th Annual Smoky Hill Art Exhibit Hays Arts Council Hays, Kansas
Jan. 3-31, 2009
Lawrence Public Library Gallery Solo Show
Leavenworth County Artists Association "A Time For Art"
Holiday Art Show
Global Cafe
Lawrence, Kansas
39th Annual Smoky Hill Art Exhibition
Hays Art Center Hays, KS
An Evening of Art and Poetry,
Trinity Episcopal Church
Lawrence, Kansas
"Hobbs-Taylor Lofts" Lawrence Art Guild
All-Members Show
Lawrence Unitarian Fellowship
Lawrence, Kansas
Z's Divine Expresso
1800 E. 23rd St., Suite A
Lawrence, KS
Also: Miltons' Cafe, La Prima Tazza, Mirth, The Lawrence Area Pastel Assoc. Show, Lawrence Public Library Gallery, The Classic Cup,(Topeka, Ks,) Kansas Public Radio Art Exhibit, Lawrence, KS, Baldwin City Art Walk,
Wichita Midwest Garden Show ,Rice County, (Sterling, Kansas) Art Exhibits.
Please feel free to contact me with comments or questions at:
kdhoffatwildmail.com
or (785)218-1005. Thanks!
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