PAMELA DEWEY - photography and mixed media paintings

Mixed media paintings

I have been practicing photography for over 20 years, and recently combined oil paint with my photographs in order to extend the meaning of a single-frame or multiple-frame photographic image. For many years I have worked on large composites, created from as many as 80 individual photographs. The composites are frequently based on traditional quilt designs. This influence is carried over to the mixed media paintings. In addition, many of these paintings are a response to well or lesser-known artists' paintings from the mid-18th century to the present. Horses play an important role in this work due to their physical presence, the beauty of their form, and the intensity of the horse-human bond.