Keith Hoffman was born in Tarrytown, New York, and grew up in the New York City area. From childhood, a family that included several commercial artists and illustrators encouraged his interest in art. He concentrated mostly on the medium of watercolor, despite its reputation as the most difficult of the major media. When his work first appeared in an art exhibit back in the late sixties, several galleries interested in representing his work approached him.

He then began teaching painting classes, demonstrating for art organizations, university and high school art programs, joined the prestigious Salmagundi Club, and became the President of Long Island's largest art organization, the Art League of Nassau County.

He later relocated to Vermont, which offered a bountiful supply of the rural subject matter that has been and continues to be his greatest inspiration. A reputation as one of Vermont's finest

watercolorists developed quickly, and over time he began to add both oil and acrylic to his media. More recently, he has relocated again, to another region that is rich in his favorite rural subject matter, and which has a well-deserved reputation as a major source of artistic expression, the Brandywine Valley area of Pennsylvania, which was home base for such great artists as N. C. Wyeth and his son Andrew, and grandson Jamie, Howard Pyle, and many others. He now works as an instructor in painting at the Center for the Creative Arts in Yorklyn, Delaware, and the Academy of Lifelong Learning in Wilmington, Delaware, and hopes to soon open an arts center in Landenberg, Pennsylvania, where has renovated the upper floor of a horse barn into a studio. He is also focusing his attention on building a reputation equal to that which he enjoyed in his years in Vermont.  Keith has recently been elected Vice-President of the Delaware Foundation for the Visual Arts.
   
He has had many one-man exhibitions, most prominently perhaps those held at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vermont, and has won many prizes and commissions for his work. His work can be seen at many galleries and other venues throughout the eastern seaboard. He may be contacted by telephone at 610 274-8123, and his e-mail address is kbhoffman@verizon.net .

Mr. Hoffman’s other interests include the study of the German language and a great variety of music, including opera, oratorio and folk music.

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