Sophisticate Painting

Pamela Covington Artist Bio: Pamela Covington is recognized for her intuitive and creative process. Scrapping, smearing, flinging, and brushing the paint Covington immerses herself into each piece. Her work, is a visual metaphor examining the cycles of life and relationships between the physical and spiritual world. Driven by the need to connect to others, through the unique language of art, Covington attended Southwest Missouri State University, where she studied art and graphic design as a non-traditional student. Her focus on using the principles and elements of art to create a composition and the influence of the masters of Abstract Expressionism Movement she accredits to her academic studies. Currently Covington spends much of her time traveling to participate in some of the Top juried art shows around the country. After experiencing life on the East and West Coasts, she finds the peace and tranquility to create her work between shows at her home and studio nestled in the woods by a lake south of Kansas City, MO. STATEMENT: My work is oil paint on canvas. My paintings start with a deliberate framework, color, idea, imagery, mood or feeling. However, I always remain open to allowing the push and pull of the process itself to become the determinate of the story being told. I paint intuitively utilizing foundational techniques to try to capture the abstract moment. Inspiration comes by things in life that grip my attention and pull me into a moment of reflection where a mood or feeling or thought temporarily takes over my thought from it's original path and propels my thinking to another state. This inspiration can come from anywhere. Anytime. From the books I read about mythology, symbology and collective evolution, to the beauty of an old majestic tree while out on a walk, the tender yet forceful way the ocean water trails back from sand, even in the noticing of where some rust has taken over on an old light pole and, its exquisite perfection in design. The moments in life that cause pause, reflection, questioning. My hope is to invite the viewer of my work to pause, if only for a moment. -Pamela Covington