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PAMELLA ALLEN CREATIVE

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 in practice for over 35 years whose mixed media paintings, works with paper and earthworks have been exhibited in traditional gallery, museum, and non-traditional settings with site specific public art commissions for healing spaces such as Bellevue Hospital for the HHC Art-In-Medicine program, learning & community centers, ACLU Corporate collection and private collections across the globe. Participation as a visiting artist-in- residencies, has taken her to India, throughout Europe, the UK & USA. A largely self-taught expressionist artist, Pamella's work is layered in process. Utilizing traditional acrylic, oil and encaustic painting, printmaking, sculpture, paper making, collage, Installation, photography/video essay & prose to develop her own archetype, a universal language of images inspired by symbolism, indigenous practices and the mystic of the nature  that speak to the diversity of her Jamaican/African heritage and lived experiences traveling the world and making art over land and sea. In 2018, Pamella published “The Language of Listening” Image and Prose by Pamella Allen, a proud recipient of the AFriCan Authors Award, the second edition entitled, “The infinite Electric” is scheduled for release in 2025.

“My works seek to create a space of activation and connection. Informed by memory, moment, culture, ritual and kinship with our ecoscapes in the cyclical nature of life, death, life.”

Pamella Allen 2025