EXHIBITION STATEMENT

The unpainted surface – the white space – is as important to me as the painted image. From bold canvases with gestural, emotive brushworks, to delicate works on paper in pen and crayon, minimal in approach, yet each with a story.

Pam’s latest series is the landscape affected by the volume of unseasonal rainfall and power of excess water on a saturated land. Run-off, trickling, seeping, flowing, floodwaters engulfing – chaos!

“Shut away in my studio I was never far from the original inspiration – the power and fascination of water, and the detritus left behind evolved as I painted – one mark leading to the next – unplanned, yet controlled.”                                                                         – words courtesy of the artist 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

PAM WALPOLE

Pam Walpole attained a diploma in Commercial Illustration at Brisbane Central  Technical College (now QUT), followed by a career as a graphic artist in various advertising agencies, until completing a Fine Art degree at the Brisbane Institute of Art.

She has had 15 solo exhibitions to date, and participated in many selected group exhibitions. Pam has won numerous awards in both painting and sculpture, spanning her fine art career.

Her work is held in public, private and corporate collections, throughout Australia and overseas. She has exhibited in Japan, and South Korea, where she participated in an artist exchange program with the International Creative Community.  Pam has facilitated environment-related workshops with children, creating posters for the Brisbane City Council buses. Her paintings have been commissioned for the Private and Public Sunshine Coast University Hospitals and Royal Brisbane Women’s and Greenslopes Private Hospitals.

Pam has collaborated with artist Yanni Van Zijl on environmental installation art. projects To date, for the Noosa Long Weekend Festivals 2015 and 2016, Horizon Festival –  Coolum 2017 and Floating Land – Noosa 2017, Environmental award at SWELL Sculpture Festival 2019, SWELL Scultpure Festival 2020.

Pam Walpole is one of 15 Artists selected to represent Australia in the Fabriano Acquarello Watercolour exhibition in 2018, 2019, 2021, with 70 countries represented worldwide.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Pam’s subjects have been inspired by the natural world – nature at its best and worst, from drought to bushfires – disasters both natural and man-made. These subjects create images to that inspire. Drawing in a bold, minimal style she likes to create the essence of the subject – stripped down at times to the essential lines and patterns, or close-up vignettes of patterns and shapes, capturing the lines of shadows and reflections –  particularly by reflections in waterways, inlets and creeks – marks of mangroves and the minutiae of life.