Artist Spotlight: Pamela Chiasson

2022-07-27 04:22:29 By : Ms. Crystal Wang

Pamela Chiasson has been exhibiting mixed media collage art & photography for the past 35+ years. With her background in photography, ​she draws on that strong sense of design and composition. She is able to use that strength in creating her Spirit-led mixed media collage art. 

Pamela Chiasson’s mixed media collage has a soul purpose. Her creative process is a very personal journey that opens her up and is guided as she walks through the process and gives her art a voice of love, acceptance and a sense of purpose with healing and restoration.

​Her journey in art is always showing her something new, something beautiful. She aspires to craft a message of love, faith, hope, truth, grace and healing with an authenticity that springs forth from the work.

Pamela uses all kinds of found objects, whether it be a rusted piece of metal or a piece of birch bark just shed from its tree. She also finds inspiration from tattered Bibles, hymnals, old ephemera, German scrap, reused coffee filters, vintage journals and things that she finds in her travels. The intimate choices of her color palette are subtle hues of browns, tans, greens, whites and with pops of color. 

​Recently, Pamela has been exploring more acrylic paint color with blues, purples, hues of yellows and green. She uses acrylic paints, mark making tools, spray paint, color pencils, water soluble crayons, ink and other fun supplies at her Mill studio. The process of incorporating these materials with the mix of collage and acrylic paint in developing new layers of meaning that form the mixed media collage art message. To see more of Pamela’s work, follow @pamelachiassonart or visit www.pamelachiassonart.com.

This Artist Spotlight is presented by Worcester Magazine in partnership with ArtsWorcester. Since 1979, ArtsWorcester has exhibited and advanced the work of this region's contemporary artists. Its exhibitions and educational events are open and free to all. Learn more at www.artsworcester.org.