WELCOME
TO
JIM HUFFMAN
PRINTMAKING AND PASTELS
GALLERY
JIM HUFFMAN
Florence, Colorado
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Taos door
Prints available for $95
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Background and experience
Jim Huffman is a graduate of Layton School of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Growing up in Michigan, he lived in the midwest until moving to Colorado in 1979.
He worked for the Social Security Administration to support his artistic habit. Upon retiring,
Jim began a serious pursuit of the arts as a political cartoonist, art restorationist and framer,
jeweler, and and museum curator. His current interest include linoleum block printing and pastel.
With a long admiration of impressionists, his work tends toward that style. Jim has had a long interest
in the effects of light, and the depiction of texturee, both those found in nature and man-made.
Like most painters, Jim's goal is to make the viewer feel like they can walk into the painting.
Galleries and Stores
San Juan Grill in Silverton, CO
Blue Spruce Gallery; Florence, CO 2001-present
Juried Shows and Awards
Garden Party theme show 2005
Miniature show, Blue Spruce Gallery 2008
Paint the Town, Florence 2006, 2007, 2008
Pastel show 2008
Mixed media show, Blue Spruce Gallery 2008
Jim Huffman
Artists Statement
Jim's current interests include linoleum block printing, pen and ink, pastel and colored pencil.
Jim and his wife Jean live with their two cats in Canon City, Colorado. He is represented by
Outside Santa Fe Gallery in Madrid, New Mexico, The Fremont Center for the Arts in Canon
City, Colorado and Blue Spruce Arts and Antiques in Florence, Colorado.
The block printing process involves carving a design in reverse into the wood, rubber or
linoleum block. The block is then carefully inked and either printed onto paper with the aid
of a press or the inked block is covered with paper and hand rubbed (or hand pulled) by the
artist. Although the image is the same throughout the numbered edition of prints, there will be
subtle differences due the hand inking of the block and the hand-rubbing or pulling of each print.
Photo or digital copies may be made of the hand-pulled prints to allow the artist the option
of offering different sizes of the same image and a less expensive print for the collector.
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