Jaime Coffey

About the artist

Jaime Coffey is a Los Angeles-based contemporary painter whose work merges environmental, climate, and personal narratives into vibrant visual journeys. Originally from Oregon, she earned her degree in painting from the Pacific Northwest College of Art before embarking on extensive international travel, during which she developed a passion for studying light. In her studio, Coffey cuts, crops, and rearranges photographic references from her travels and local walks, translating them into intricate, multi-layered egg tempera paintings (a traditional mixture of egg yolk, dry pigment, and water). Coffey prefers this medium for its exceptional nuances in tone, transparency, and vibrancy. Coffey’s newest body of work focuses on the sun, moon, and sky. Light Path: Refractions explores these themes through paintings that investigate how light bends, refracts, and disperses—appearing as lens flares, rainbows, and shifting chromatic fields.