Tactile Layers: The Art Portfolio of Pamela Neswald
He Mokupuni, oil on uniquely textured canvas
Pamela Neswald creates artworks with deep jewel tones and highly tactile layers of media and found materials. The artist tends to work in oil paint, layering pigment onto textured canvas or using other materials to build up each artwork.
At Last, acrylic on uniquely textured canvas
The artist is based in Hawaii, and many of her works take inspiration from the local landscape, foliage, and other elements of the Hawaiian Islands. In some cases, the artist uses an abstract aesthetic to reflect the texture and colour of a certain place or time. In her Maui Landscape collection, Pamela takes a more literal approach, painting soft, realistic landscapes in a true-to-life colour palette.
I really enjoy the works in Pamela’s Dreamscapes Texture collection. These works are the most heavily textured and abstract in the artist’s portfolio, and it seems that the artist takes a very intuitive approach to these paintings, letting the canvas speak to her as the image forms on its surface.
