Paméla Maria (1965) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hasselt (Belgium) and Industrial Design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, where she graduated in 1989 from the environmental design department. In 1990, she received a startup grant from the Mondriaan Fund for the further development of her work. In the following years, Paméla Maria worked as a designer and advisor for various Dutch municipalities and companies. After some time, she chose to focus on visual art and even received the ‘Woman Art Award’ in 2020.
Paméla Maria creates collages and reliefs using various materials and techniques such as photography, paint, and thread. Like many Dutch painters throughout the centuries, the beauty of the Dutch landscape is a significant source of inspiration for her. In this tradition, she explores the relationship between nature and abstraction. Focusing on the endless wealth of patterns, structures, color gradients, and light, she captures details of the (urban) landscape with a camera. She then challenges these photos by cutting out images, painting over them, and wrapping them up. This method helps her impose order and structure on the chaos of life and gain control over the multitude of impressions.
For Paméla Maria, working visually is a process of transferring reality into expressionistic proportions—something she applies intuitively but, above all, in an exploratory manner. The use of color in paint and the detailed texture of thread are characteristic of her translation of reality and define the character of her work.
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