Life's a Hudson, and You're a Chevy

The following is a quote from today's Columbia Tribune, Columbia, MO, talking about the art that Jim and I do together.

...SPOUSES PEEL BACK PAGES


Perhaps a more “obvious” collaboration, the pairing of Jim Coffman’s poetry and wife Jan Coffman’s digital watercolors, comes across as no less engaging. His verse evokes youthful memories of freedom; her creations —derived from actual photographs that are shaped and transformed using software and a stylus — represent the means of that freedom in pictures as vivid as the ones he painted with his words...

Tall Stories

I was juried into the Tall Stories art show for the Columbia Art League, February 23 - April 17, 2010. 

(Click on the pictures to see a larger version.)

Artist of the Month

Janice L. Coffman Design - Photography

www.bestofmissourihands.org

Best of Missouri Hands Featured Artist

"Missouri Artisans Association, better known as The Best of Missouri Hands, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization representing artists from throughout the state of Missouri. Our growing membership includes not only well-established professional artisans but also those "just starting out," and many more in between. Equally important, however, is the fact that our membership includes non-artists as well. Anyone can be a member of Missouri Artisans Association. We welcome both Missourians and those from outside our state as general members. Our juried artist members, all Missouri residents, are recognized as masters in their respective mediums. As such, they are knowledgable spokespeople for the arts, serving as mentors, public speakers, and demonstrators at schools, shows, and various other venues..."  
Mary Beth St. Clair
President

Columbia Tribune Blog Article

Aarik Danielsen of the Columbia Tribune wrote about me again, this time on his blog: http://www.columbiatribune.com/weblogs/art-axis/2010/jan/27/coffmans-digital-watercolors-continue-to-impress/

Second Place Award, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Jo, Mo.

Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Annual Membership Exhibition, St. Joseph, Mo., January 16-February 21, 2010; Second Place award.

New show

Sense of Self

Columbia Art League, January 12-February 20, 2010
This is just how I feel as I'm painting (It's not so much that I'm enjoying myself as it is that I'm out of control, oh no!).

Featured in Corel Painter Blog

John Derry is the inventor and creator of one of the computer programs that I use: Corel Painter.  I sent him a copy of one of my new pictures and he has featured it on his blog.  PixlBlog