Galleries West Fine Art

Jennifer L. Hoffman

Discipline(s): Oil, Pastel, Charcoal & Pencil

Accolades: 2010: Award of Excellence - Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters National Show, Crested Butte, CO; Masters in Miniature Invitational, CM Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT; Oil Painters of America National Exhibition (Scottsdale, AZ); Best of Show-First Annual Autumn Arts Painting Challenge (Winners exhibit March 2010, New Hope, PA); Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters National Show (Crested Butte, CO); Masters in Miniature, CM Russell Museum, Great Falls MT; Western Visions, National Museum of Wildlife Art. 2009: Oil Painters of America Western Regional Juried Exhibition (Kirkland, WA), Reflections in Pastel National Juried Exhbition (Little Rock, AR), NMWA Western Visions Show, Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Quickdraw, GTNHA Artist in the Environment (August). 2008: Award of Merit-Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters National Juried Exhibition (Winter Park, CO); 3rd Place, Landscape-9th Annual Pastel 100 International Pastel Competition (sponsored by the Pastel Journal). 2007,2006:Western Visions Miniatures and More, National Museum of Wildlife Art. Quickdraw, Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival. 2005: Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters (RMPAP) La Mariposa Resort Event (Invited artist), Tucson, AZ; RMPAP Annual National Exhibition (Invited Artist), Jackson, WY; Grand Teton National Park August Artist in the Environment; Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Quickdraw Artist; Featured Artist, Casper Medical Center Fundraiser, Casper, WY. 2004: Fall Arts Festival Quick Draw Artist, Jackson, WY. Memberships: Pastel Society of America (PSA), Signature Member. Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters (RMPAP), Oil Painters of America (OPA), American Impressionist Society (AIS).

Bio:
Jennifer L. Hoffman was born and raised in the rural Pennsylvania Dutch community of Ephrata. She began drawing as soon as she could hold a pencil. She grew up with a love of the outdoors that was only exceeded by her fascination with art. After a year in college as an English major, her desire to create art took over. In 1992, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Delaware.

While in college, Jennifer enjoyed intensive art history study. An interest in the landscape genre grew from that study; plein-air painting seemed like a natural way to combine her love of art and the outdoors. In 1996 she moved west to pursue that interest. A week after arriving in Jackson, Wyoming she met landscape painter Scott Christensen. In the course of an afternoon, she was hired as his studio assistant where she worked for over a year. From Scott, she learned volumes about painting outdoors. She went on to work for the National Museum of Wildlife Art where she continued to study the techniques and approaches of great artists. In 2004, She became a full time artist.

Jennifer works primarily in oil and pastel but also enjoys charcoal, graphite, gouache, and relief and intaglio prints. An admirer of great realist painters, both historical and contemporary, she strives to learn from other artists whenever she can and continues to delve into art history with relish. Her English-major beginnings persist too; poetry and great literature often inspire ideas in Jennifer's work. Landscape is still her favored subject matter, but she enjoys painting and drawing any subject that intrigues her, including still life and figurative work.

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