Pamela Drapala

With a passionate and well-crafted line, Pamela Carvajal
Drapala paints faces. She depicts the wholeness of a person’s being
through a careful study of that person’s life. Her paintings portray a
dignified ethnicity in her subjects. Before painting a person, she
conducts thorough research into the person’s country, customs and
costume. Through this investigation she accentuates the individuality
and fullness of her subjects. Her portraits are a collection of multi-cultural
identities. At times, however, she works completely from intuition,
letting her portraits take shape from her subconscious. In these
instances, her work may resemble old acquaintances or lost loved ones.
Since childhood in the Southwestern USA, Drapala has studied painting
with a concentration in portraiture. As a constant creative spirit, she
also writes poetry. She currently lives and works in the Southwest,
where her Farm Workers Series sold, a total of seven paintings. In
addition, her work has been commissioned by individuals across the U.S.

Style and technique, exhibitions: Painting,

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