I paint evocative, contemplative images using traditional watercolor medium in a contemporary, spontaneous style and an unexpected scale. 

I seek to connect the ageless human instinct to make images with our current moment in time.  I explore gestures and visual elements that occur in artwork throughout ages and cultures.  I employ the watercolor medium, steeped in a long rich history, presented with a contemporary hand.  I often push the image over individual panels challenging the convention of a rectangle and hinting to ancient cave art.

   

My paintings are often developed as a series and presented in installation groupings unique for the exhibit space.  In recent work I’ve mounted larger format paper on 1 ½ “ deep cradle wood panels 16” - 22” tall.  The image often expands over multiple panels, typically 2, 3, or 6 panels each 8” - 12” wide.  Installed groupings are typically 20” – 80” wide.  Another recent watercolor series employing marks reminiscent of petroglyphs includes nearly 20 images on paper framed to 13” x 17” x 1”.  This series is grouped uniquely for each installation, typically 48” to 86” in each direction.

 

Viewers often comment on the contemplative beauty, spontaneity and mystery of the artwork.

                    

 

                                                 “I thought I knew watercolor paintings”.  “Beautiful” 

 

                                                                                                           

 

                                                                                                                        Pamela Joann Christensen, 2021