Mixed Media Paintings, Earthworks, Works With Handmade Paper, Portraits, Mandalas, Journalistsic Art Books, Prints,

Textiles, On-site & Video Installation, Prose & the Teaching Arts

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Pamella Allen is a Jamaican-born visual artist whose practice spans more than three decades. Her works have been exhibited in traditional galleries and non-traditional settings worldwide, including site-specific public art and corporate commissions for healing spaces such as Bellevue Hospital through the HHC Art-In-Medicine program. Her art is also held in community centers and private collections across the globe.

A largely self-taught expressionist, Allen’s practice is layered and multidisciplinary. She works across painting (acrylic, oil, encaustic), printmaking, sculpture, papermaking, collage, installation, photography, video essay, and prose. Through these diverse forms she has developed a unique archetype—a universal language of images inspired by symbolism, indigenous practices, and the natural world. Her work reflects the diversity of her Jamaican and African heritage, as well as her lived experiences as a woman, an immigrant in the United States, and a world traveler and sailor.

“I investigate self through memory, moment, and the mystic of the natural world,” Allen explains. Her creative process is intuitive and instructive, drawing on artifacts of experience to build mixed media paintings, earthwork installations, and prose. These works serve as storytelling, a means of actualization, and a tool for communication.

Born in Crossroads, Jamaica, Allen’s journey has taken her across land and sea, eventually finding community among artists in Brooklyn before relocating “back home” to Jamaica in 2024. Now based in her studio there, she continues to create art that bridges memory, place, and mysticism, offering audiences immersive narratives that speak to transformation, belonging, and the interconnectedness of nature and spirit.