Being a part of Still Water Fine Art allows me to share my journeys and stories in art – oil and photography. Spending nearly 30 years as a photojournalist in the Navy, freelance and newspaper has provided me the medium and the time to develop a keen insight into composition, an eye for the truth and a penchant for uncovering the hidden details in a story.
There is more than one way to tell the story in art. Over time, I found I wanted to portray these stories beyond the soul-bearing detail of photography and express them through the flow, the quiet elegance and dignity of oil. The stories of journeys, ancient day and just yesterday, spill into the canvas to invite you on your own journey.
Whether in oil or in photography, my artistic passions and muses will be apparent: the sea and Paris, France. Both have inspired creators of many kinds for centuries. Today, that inspiration is alive in my art. – Samuel Hoffman
So many stories are begging to be heard. Maybe in a place, a face and need, living in the stillness just below the surface. Like all things and people, stories need to be heard.
Stories do not have to be loud to be heard, but each still needs a proper voice and the listening ear. And this is my quest. In chameleon fashion, I take the story, the place or face and use a variety of media and technique to tell the story, to give it a proper voice. Sometime the story calls for tight rendering and detail; sometimes just certain details, feeling and movement, nothing more.
Whether in watercolor, pencil, ink, or colored pencil, if the story speaks to you – to your heart, your journey – then the art was made for you. – Jan Hoffman
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