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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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“Fragments into Wholeness: Mandalas, Portraits, Earthworks, and Prose Poetry in the Mystic of the Natural World.”  

My multi disciplinary practice is a layered meditation on memory, spirit, and the mystic of the natural world. In portraits, I limit myself to two or three colors, honoring the truth of the first lines and preserving their meditative flow. These figures—often solitary, gazing directly, looking away or lowering their eyes—become liquid stories of how we hold space in our natural and spiritual landscapes, and how creative evolution begins in mind, thought, and action.

The deconstructed collage works extend this dialogue, assembling fragments of watercolors, pastels, graphite drawings, photographs, acrylic paintings, handmade paper, and prints created years apart. Returning again and again, these archetypal elements form a visual language that evolves continuously, becoming totems of persistence and interconnectedness.

My journalistic art books, begun at sea in the early 1990s and continued across Africa, remain the alpha and omega of my creative self—archives where all thoughts, attempts, and processes converge. 

Alongside these, mandalas [or Circles & Symbols] emerge as meditative structures, embodying cycles of return and wholeness, while earthworks root spirit and memory in the physical landscape. Prose poetry flows through these works as fractured yet luminous text, carrying messages of love, healing, and transformation. Together, these practices form a continuum of meditation and actualization, holding space for the eternal dialogue between the personal and the universal.

Pamella Allen’s works seek to create spaces of activation and connection, informed by memory, observation, culture, and ritual. In kinship with the natural world and the cyclical rhythm of life, death, and renewal, her practice spans portraits, collages, mandalas, earthworks, and prose poetry. Each piece becomes both vessel and meditation, inviting audiences into a continuum of healing, transformation, and dialogue between the personal and the universal.