I’m a colorist and love how the tactile act of painting feels lyrical and induces a sense of calm as I bring each piece to conclusion.” Profile Pamela is a contemporary mixed-media artist. Her paintings are vivid, colorful, spacious, and often abstract, yet are rooted in the simultaneous experience of her Southern heritage and her current life. She makes use of strong lights and darks with distinct forms that imply found strength and joy. Her work is complex, layered, and evokes a sense of love for the beautiful whether in relationships, grace, humans, and nature. Her work begins with Asemic writing, forms, marks, colors, and employs both transparencies and opacities that ebb and flow onto the canvas allowing the viewer to connect with the abstraction of the work yet find something familiar. Although no formal degreed art education, Pam has a Masters in psychology and a background in technology. Finding an end to traditional corporate work, she left her career in 2013 to pursue a lifelong love of art and thus kindling her spirit through the creation of visual form. Her paintings are featured in and around Puget Sound, she is a member of the Washington Women Painters, recently selected as a finalist in Cincinnati’s premier Art Comes Alive 2019, FASO Abstract first place winner.