George Huffman is an Oil Painter based in Austin, Texas.

About the Work

The figures in my most recent series are enjoying peaceful pastimes in tormented surroundings made of lushly textured surfaces. I am also working on a series which revisits a primitive language I haven’t used for many years. Finding the tension between figure and ground is what motivates my compositions. I work exclusively in oils. The sensorial nature and pliability of oil paints give me the ability to layer and build a multi-dimensional surface, one with a rich history. On the flip side exists the need for patience; to endure the drying time required by the materials, and accept the delayed gratification which is essential to the process of painting with oils. 

About the Artist

George E. Huffman is a visual artist who was born in 1966 near Philadelphia, raised outside of New York City, developed as an artist in Tucson, Arizona and has called Austin, Texas home since 2002. He began his artistic career as a painter and printmaker after earning a Bachelors of Fine Art from Villanova University in 1987.