Concept
Pamela Cuevas, curiously her surname means Caves, when she was a child, she loved read about caves, rocks, crystals among other Geology topics. She knew it would be her key inspiration.
Before her studies in design, for one year Pamela studied Human Geography, this contributed to her career, getting nature appreciation, and interest in sciences as: Biology and specially Petrography. Since 2018, she has been analyzing thin sections of rocks, their structures across microscope, books and scientific publications.
Across Pamela´ s macroscopic vision, her naturalist artwork invites you to see beyond your senses and enjoy the significant details of the world. Bringing closer to Earth, to discover, to respect and love it.
Pamela Cuevas loves to paint series about landscapes, minerals, reefs, magic Ikebana, animals and especially rocks, creating flying islands and dragon volcanos. In Pamela's universe natural illustration and surrealistic style coexist.
Style
Her aesthetics in illustration and painting is based on bold graphic, abstract compositions, transparency, layers, organic traces, subversive colorways. In particular matching copper, gold and silver in each artwork.
As Mixed media artist, she usually paints onto paper, wood panel, traveling to make murals and canvas. Mainly she paints with watercolor and acrylic. Though she creates with a rich rage of mediums and techniques as: oil, suminagashi, lithography, risography, 서체 (korean calligraphy), spray, alcohol ink, gouache, charcoal, ballpoint pen. Also experiments with textile art, like embroidery, ready mades and furoshiki (風呂敷).
