From The Hollow – Pamela Berkeley
March 4 – April 16
Paintings, Dining Room Gallery
Pamela Berkeley paints eye to hand. She paints what she sees as honestly as she can. Nature is always in balance if you pay attention. Berkeley has always been able to draw pretty well, so she doesn’t think about it too much.
Combining still life objects, landscape and sometimes portraits of people and animals is what intrigues her. Her main preoccupation in painting is the tension between the still objects close to the picture plane and the distant imagery that is farthest away. Foreground and what is behind are of equal importance, painted at the same time side by side, locked into each other. In fact, in a work of lace curtains, sometimes only the holes are made of paint, not threads.
