2nd Annual Colors Featured Artists - March 2018

Cincinnati native Pam Folsom is nationally known for her vibrant, energetic oil paintings of familiar scenes, depicting everything from the rolling farmland of the Midwest to the beaches of Florida’s coast. Her award-winning works have appeared in numerous juried group, two-person, and solo exhibitions. Dozens of Pam’s paintings appear in private collections across the U.S., as well as the corporate collections. Pam is currently represented by Gingerbread Square Gallery in Key West, Florida; The Miller Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio; and B. Deemer in Louisville, Kentucky.

Artist Statement:

Color is my inspiration. Placement, interpretation, and swirls of visible knife strokes climbing through the composition, forming texture, blending and making the edges of vibrant colors mesh. The paintings are beyond reality, but believable. These paintings are about slowing down, drinking in the day, stopping, enjoying and finding the dialogue to express what I need to say. Life is intoxicating if you take the time to notice. It is strictly out of selfishness that I paint; I enjoy it that much. An hour passes, a day, however long it takes. No Rules, no guidelines, just creating visual communication with others that appreciate the dialogue.

Please visit Pam’s website if you are interested in purchasing this award winning piece or to see more of her work.

After retiring from spending over 40 years in the scientific and management fields, Marcia became interested in exploring her creative side. During the subsequent years, Marcia began to learn the possibilities involved in drawing and painting. She rapidly discovered that no single material or set of techniques satisfied her completely.

Today, Marcia uses her art to display her vision – her love of nature, it’s beauty, patterns, and incredible range of possibilities. – her love of the man-made, the power and possibilities of man’s structures and their interactions with the world around them. – her love of the non-physical, the possibilities of what never existed, the emotions of the inanimate, the communication of that which has no mouth or external sound. Her art has lead to the desire to show existence through the senses and emotions and has led her to concentrate on three forms of artistic endeavor: non-representational painting, her ‘fractured fotographs’, and views she captures through ‘realistic’ digital photographs.

In her painting, she use several mediums such as acrylics, inks, and watercolors, to create original work that conveys emotions, feelings and mood.

The ‘fractured fotographs’ are computer manipulations of her ‘as taken’ photos to something that does not exist but is, instead, a changed form of beauty. She tries, through those pictures to reflect a more general truth about the subject and it’s interaction with the viewer. Marcia often tries to focus attention on parts of the whole that might not be noticed otherwise.

Over the years, her photography has focused more strongly on capturing the patterns around her: from nature; plants, animals, birds, flowers, trees and landscapes and from the man-made; structures such as buildings, unique industrial configurations, construction sites, and recreation sites such as golf courses or children’s playgrounds, and outdoor sculptures.

Please Marcia’s website if you are interested in purchasing this award-winning piece or if you would like to see more of her work.