Ilse Coffman
www.ilsecoffman.com
Instagram: @ilsecoffmanart
Ilse is a mixed-media artist, educator, former children's art studio owner and designer. Her paintings, collages and drawings reflect a sense of holding on-to home and to children who have grown, to the quietness of change, to the grieving and celebrating of aging, and exploring what that means. Ilse's art depicts the familiar in a fresh and distilled way-home, still life and figures in repose. Fruit that represents the womb, tables laden food waiting for family to return.
Her primitive abstract work is often made using ink on a wet surface, resulting in fractured batik-like lines. Matte finish paint enhance the flatness of the simple shapes.
The daughter of artist parents, Ilse grew up immersed in the arts - pottery, textiles, tribal arts and furniture design - in the 60s and 70s in Northern California. Her current art practice came later in life, but, nonetheless, has been a lifetime in the making.
Instagram: @ilsecoffmanart
Ilse is a mixed-media artist, educator, former children's art studio owner and designer. Her paintings, collages and drawings reflect a sense of holding on-to home and to children who have grown, to the quietness of change, to the grieving and celebrating of aging, and exploring what that means. Ilse's art depicts the familiar in a fresh and distilled way-home, still life and figures in repose. Fruit that represents the womb, tables laden food waiting for family to return.
Her primitive abstract work is often made using ink on a wet surface, resulting in fractured batik-like lines. Matte finish paint enhance the flatness of the simple shapes.
The daughter of artist parents, Ilse grew up immersed in the arts - pottery, textiles, tribal arts and furniture design - in the 60s and 70s in Northern California. Her current art practice came later in life, but, nonetheless, has been a lifetime in the making.