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KATIE COFFIN
Katie Coffin is an artist
of many talents and could be best described as a multi-media artist. Her
creative visions are expressed through the exciting mediums of mixed
media, collage, and experimental water media.
I feel that collage is
the art form of the new millennium. In a world where everyday life is
often experienced in a one-dimensional form of computer printouts and
flat-line analyses, collage offers a true balance. The varying textures,
forms, shape, and colors creating a 2 and 3 dimensional affect is a
welcome change and creates a visual and emotional balance. That is why I
find mixed media and assemblage so exciting. I love the ability to keep
growing and learning as an artist.
The journey continues
to be an enlightening odyssey.
Katie Coffin
She is professionally trained in design, calligraphy, papermaking, paper
sculpting, painting, photography, fiber arts, metal embossing, faux
effects, water media and collage. Katie loves working experimentally to
achieve originality in the many different mediums. She researches
materials that are appropriate to best illustrate the particular theme
she wishes to explore. The energy that emanates from her work is her
inspiration and truly reflects the authenticity of her research. In this
way she has the ability to visually interpret what she wishes to express
and share.
She loves to work with a variety of interesting themes. Some of her
favorites are old world, cross-cultural, mythology, symbolism,
spirituality, womanhood, and those themes intended to be uplifting to
enhance society and the environment. Katie believes that part of the
creative process involves her personal journey into ancient times and
cultures. She achieves this by extensive research performed through
published volumes, periodicals, web research, travel, and personal
interviews.
Simultaneously with developing and expanding her own artwork, she has
taught many workshops and classes in all the varied mediums over the
past 20 years. She feels her one-on-one contact with her students
enhances and stimulates her own work. Her creativity classes are
particularly inspiring and thought provoking.
Katie’s work hangs in numerous public and private collections, including
The Randali Center, Brixton International, Judie Glenn Incorporated, and
Wachovia Securities. Through her affiliation with the Tarpon Springs Art
Association she has participated in various art exhibits held at Helen
Ellis Hospital, Palm Harbor Library, TSAA Art in the Park (Tarpon
Springs Art Show), and the Performing Arts Center of Tarpon Springs
among others. She is presently a member of the Dunedin Fine Art
Association and was juried into their prestigious 2004 Art Harvest Show.
Several of her pieces have been published in Somerset Studio Art
Magazine, including their Gallery edition.
The pieces that I’ve seen have touched my sensibilities. There’s
aliveness to the work. Maybe it’s the 3-dimensional quality to it – the
subtle strength of the interaction between materials/symbols/and
sentiment – maybe the fluid juxtaposition of object – or the color
contracts – I don’t know, there’s just such an aliveness to it!
D. Lopez, Photographer,
Web Site Designer
In response: David, the work is very much alive for me and insists on
being worked and reworked until it tells me, ‘O.K., I’m completed now.’
I’ve had to put work away for months until I could figure out what was
missing. Various textures emit feelings and emotions and that is one of
the reasons I started making my own paper and layering to create
e-dimensional compositions. The universal meanings behind symbols and
what ties us all together on one level in all our humanity, both past
and present, is a recurrent theme I never tire of trying to express.
Also, the magic of color and how it expresses every emotion is one of my
most important designing elements.
K. Coffin
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