PAMELA TWOMEY

ARTISTS STATEMENT

My work has always been inspired from an emotive response to images I see around me. These can vary from sublime reflections seen in nature or drawn from more menacing images that create a sense of the unknown. The use of light is a major consideration in my paintings. My work is somewhere between the abstract and representational. My aim is to try and translate the emotions I feel or that are stimulated when looking at certain images into a finished work that evokes an emotive response that the viewer relates to.

In much of my work, I have painted clouds in various forms, using them as a metaphor for different emotional states. I have also explored how the internal expression maybe visualized, going inside the physical condition which is responding to different emotional states.

The current body of work is of water scenes which I am using in the same way as clouds. The different emotions that are inspired by the ocean and its many moods are also a reflection of different emotional states.