Dear Friends,

There were so many extraordinary artists whose work I've had the pleasure of reviewing this winter but Pamela Murphy is one who I've been following for years. Pamela's paintings are sometimes based on real people and sometimes entirely imagined. She selects figures from her large collection of old photographs to use as subjects for her paintings. "I am interested in the fact that, although the people in the photographs may be strangers, they seem almost universally familiar."

PAMELA MURPHY

Murphy works mostly with a palette knife and rags to wipe glazes on and off, This is incremental work, applying thin layers of paint and giving them time to dry. “It’s kind of the old masters’ technique because they would do a value painting, and then the color goes on afterward as transparent glazes – lots of layers of glazes. "That’s why, when you look at these paintings, the color is luminous – because the light is going down to the underpainting and then reflecting.

"Living on a ten-acre farm, I am familiar with animals and the rural landscape, from which I also draw inspiration. All of my imagery has a strong sense of memory, history, and nostalgia, which the distressed surfaces of my canvases enhance".

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Best,
Marla