WILDTHINGS Studio

Pastels by KATHLEEN HOFF-HARVEY

Check out my pastels.

"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.)

I was employed at the Blue Heron Furniture Store for eight years, where I was a merchandiser/buyer/ interior design consultant. I reside in Lawrence with my husband, Doug.

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.

NOW or Coming Soon:

  • July1-Aug. 2, 2009
    "Wallpaper" Juried Show
    1109 Gallery
    Lawrence Art Guild
    1109 Massachusetts Street
    Lawrence, Kansas
    Reception: Saturday, July 11, 7-9 pm


  • July-August, 2009
    Unitarian Fellowship Church
    1263 North 1100 Road
    Lawrence, Kansas

  • July 24- August 21
    Lawrence Art Guild All Member Show
    Lawrence Art Center
    Lawrence, Kansas

  • September-October 2009 Performance
    Lawrence Community Theatre
    1501 New Hampshire Street
    Lawrence, Kansas

    Recent past exhibits:
  • 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

  • Leavenworth County Artists Association
    "A Time For Art"
    Holiday Art Show

  • Global Cafe
    820 Massachusetts St.
    Lawrence, KS

  • 39th Annual Smoky Hill Art Exhibition
    Hays Arts Council
    112 East 11th St.
    Hays, KS

  • An Evening of Art and Poetry
    Trinity Episcopal Church
    1101 Vermont Street
    Lawrence, Kansas

  • "Hobbs-Taylor Lofts"
    Lawrence Art Guild
    All-Members Show

  • Lawrence Unitarian Fellowship
    1263 North 1100 Road
    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!

    All images contained in this gallery is subject to the U.S. Copyright Law and may not be reproduced with the expressed and written consent of the artist.

    (photo of me taken by Mark Sandercock)

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