Pamela Harley
I love working with abstraction, colour, texture and shape. While I try
to not ‘think out’ my work too much, I do enjoy the randomness and
freedoms that working in an abstract style allows.
I work in many
medias and mediums, most recently focusing on painting and kiln
glasswork, and while my work is abstract there is also very much a
design quality to it as well.
With photography, while having to
acknowledge and move into the digital realm, I still love and to a
degree prefer working in the darkroom with black and white photography.
I find it a really magical process. In 2003, I won Tertiary runner up
in the Mighty River Photographic Competition.
While I intend to
keep painting, and work with other mediums, my future plans are to work
with fused and slumped glass, develop some jewellery and move into
fabric design, taking some of my paintings and photography and having
them printed onto material to then be made into fashion garments or
accessories.
I have exhibited and sold work around New Zealand
and to the USA. Most recently I sold work at both The Original Art Sale
and Affordable Art Sales and the Taranaki Art Award and most recently
exhibited my first installation piece, a 7ft scarf knitted out of
paper, with Corban Estate Art Centre.
I have been invited to
exhibit in Italy at the Legato Exhibition in May (not in person due to
other commitments) – A theme of peace and rememberence to those who
fought at Monte Cassino.
I am based on the East Coast of the
North Island here in New Zealand at a lovely beach spot called Tauranga.
I work in my studio by the sea.
