Featured Member Artist
May 2024

Meet Member Artist Jeff Haslock…

My name is Jeff Haslock. I am an artist living in Savage MN. My family consists of my lovely wife, Chrissy, and my 3 children Lilly, Dallas, and Temperence. We have been in Minnesota since September of 2011 and residents of Savage since 2017.

I am proficient in a couple different mediums - color pencil and acrylic paints. I have dabbled with oils and will be picking them up again in the near future. Honestly too much to do yet with acrylics! I love learning new artistic perspectives from other artists and their approaches to different challenges.

A word of advice to any new artist - don’t let your ego and hubris keep you away from your true artistic calling. My example is that I recently started working with acrylic paints, in late 2023. For the longest time I had the idea that acrylics were for beginners and more advanced artists only used oil paints for various reasons… wow - looking back on those thoughts now is just painful for me as that is what I told myself back in 2004. Oil painting turned out to be a pain for various reasons and acrylics would have been a much better choice for me instead of oils. My ego and hubris cost me 20 years of creativity! That will never happen again!

My art philosophy now is that I try to learn all that I can to really find my artistic voice. Currently I think that this resides with portraitures but I may find something different that takes me to my next level.

Thank you for your time and stopping by to check out these pieces of my work. You are invited to join us as a member of the Savage Area Arts Community. The viability of this organization depends on the creative people who support it.

Enjoy Jeff’s great art works…

2010, advancing colored pencil technique

2020, first art work since 2012, “Zoey”

Jeff’s first work - 2008. Displayed at an exhibition
at the Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg Massachusetts.

Time to ramp up the complexity… a work in progress, 2024.

Jeff’s third acrylic work in 2024.