Del Hoffman

Artist's Statement

I grew up in Central California and graduated from California Polytechnic State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Aeronautical Engineering. My 35-year professional career at Boeing included worldwide travel immersing me in other cultures and their indigenous ways of living and thinking. I have been a serious amateur photographer throughout my life finally turning it into an artistic endeavor in 2004.

I believe that photography plays a prominent role in creating and sharing the unique beauty of the world, it’s people and environs; and on the opposite end, it documents the devastating effects of global climate change, overpopulation, sickness, and social unrest.

Photography, as with all art, creates a communication bond between the creator and the viewer, each with their own emotional perspective. Therefore, creating art with emotional content is one of my goals. In my work one will see representational photographic images, pictorial images, and digital paintings rendered with textures and compositions.

My photography has won awards or special recognition in magazines, digital art workshops, EAFA Shows, and I will have a solo exhibit at the Bellevue Public Library in 2012. I have also authored nautical articles with accompanying photographic layouts for yachting publications.

The Artists Remarque Gallery and the Cattails and Dragonflies Gallery, both in La Connor, represent my work. But many of my referrals come thru friends, and the internet sites, Flickr and Facebook, both of which allow me to gauge the public appeal of particular images, artistic preferences, and current trends in photography.

I am a member of EAFA (Eastside Association of Fine Arts), NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals), the Trilogy Camera Club, and the Photography Committee at Meydenbauer Bay Yacht Club.

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