Pam Bidelman: Paintings
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Over the years, I worked with a range of media and eventually settled on oils as my primary medium. Life drawing remains a strong secondary interest that under girds and informs my paintings of abstracted female figures. The paintings seem to emerge from my history of relationships with beautiful and complex women and the varieties of roles and presentation that women play out in the world. I think that the women in “my world” are quiet and observers of events. More importantly, I paint to experience the application of color and the emergence of psychological and emotional themes in the paintings. The process most often seems to have its own imperative over which I have little control. My most recent paintings recall the books of fairy tales I loved as a child, although, in my mind, the themes are current in our world. Recently, I have been experimenting with pure abstraction which seems to me a natural and joyous way to express whatever I happen to be thinking about at the time.