"Untitled Horse in Blue 1" Painting

Artist Kate has been painting for more than 30 years. She studied at the Art Students League in New York and the Instituto Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums, including the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Logan House Gallery of the Beatrice Wood Foundation in Ojai. Her work is widely collected and can be seen in the permanent collection of the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa, and Rotary Internation in Chicago as well as many private collections. She loves to work on large surfaces, blending rich earthy colors with outlined suggestions of shape and volume. Her images are simple and loose and surfaces are often rubbed to suggest the dimension of the canvas, paper and gesso underneath. She is known for her paintings of horses and other animals as well as the blue and green water of her seascapes. Josef Woodard of the LA Times said of her: “One intriguing show along the way was Kate Hoffman’s fine painting exhibition at the Logan House Gallery. This is one of those galleries whose stunning view of Upper Ojai out the window is a distraction. But Hoffman’s art effectively reels us back inside. Not content to just dwell on the shore, she slathers painterly love on the water, in all its fluid blueness, which takes on a life of its own.”