Pamela Thurston

Artist Statment

I work in metaphors. What I do with paint reflects what life is doing with me. Experience has taught me to believe in potential and possibility  - that beneath life’s hard exterior and above human agenda, there is meaning.  As part of a many-layered whole which seems to have its own motives and which batters and cajoles me to understand, I paint in order to make sense of it all.  My goal, always, is to create an image that whispers a thousand unsaid words. 

I  turn to my surroundings for subject matter – the hard facts of my existence, and then, being human, I put my own mark on it. I isolate and control; I fight with my own agenda and then, when I listen well and let go, I find consensus and some measure of peace. This collaboration with subject matter, the layering on and stripping away;  the struggle and the joyful aha of discovering the image through the layers; to me, this process is like the experience of learning to acknowledge the intangible, to live with some understanding of the connections we have and the importance of listening to them for our own good.

 

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