Homestead Magazine
by Pamela Gibson on August 2, 2019 in Press
By Katy Niner
Pamela Gibson’s wide-angle lens on natural life translates into a body of work at once intimate and resonant. By her hand, the cadence of time translates into layered marks as intricate as the phenomenon she acutely observes outside: the ephemeral encounters, the changing flora, the beautiful decay, the variable pacing of time, time’s imprint on memory and manifestation in organic matter. These are all affects present in her paintings. Working in a spectrum of sizes—from small squares to ambitious boards—she explores the breadth of time through the depth of materiality.
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JHStyle Magazine
By Kelsey Dayton August 2, 2019
Pamela Gibson measures time in the changing of the sky. In winter, she watches pinks shine through gray clouds. In spring and summer, the sky turns cerulean blue and seems to go on forever. And in fall, the blue of the sky is juxtaposed against the oranges and yellows of trees’ turning leaves.
These colors and the passage of time they represent inspire Gibson’s encaustic landscape painting. Encaustic painting involves using layers of
hot colored wax to play with light and reflect color.
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Mountain Living Featuring Art by Pamela Gibson
By Rhonda Reinhart, January 6, 2020
A Wyoming Vacation Home With Custom Upgrades
A Boston-area family’s Wyoming vacation home transforms from standard to stunning
For more than a decade, Wyoming’s Shooting Star community has been attracting nature-loving homeowners with its Tom Fazio golf course, world-class skiing and 1,300 acres of wide-open spaces. Situated 12 miles outside Jackson, at the base of Teton Village, it’s a popular option for urban dwellers looking for a mountain getaway.
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Other Press
Brownfield artists stop time in its tracks
By Richard Anderson, 2021
“It takes a lot of time to capture a moment… For Jackson Hole encaustic artist Pamela Gibson it took layer after layer of pigmented beeswax that she then scraped away, eroding it away like wind and rain erodes stone to form arches and cliffs and alpine tarns. And for Chinese artist Fu Xiaotong it took precisely 234,296 pinpricks to incise in exacting detail a mountainscape into heavy handmade paper.”
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Artist Profile
Twenty Two Home
“Pamela Gibson approaches her creative process as a crucible: A rapid melt of choices and challenges, a churning mix of materials and metaphors.”
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‘Elemental’: Pamela Gibson’s encaustic mastery
By Jane Lavino, 2018
“Despite the malleability and unpredictability of the medium, Gibson’s work goes far beyond merely experimenting with its properties. She has gained the expertise to masterfully manipulate up to 40 or 50 thin, fused layers of colored wax.”
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Artist paints the elements — with a torch
By Frederica Kolwey, 2018
“The poetry and the stories that shape the wax in Gibson’s paintings are layered under and through her observations of the scenes outside her window.”
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A Conversation with Pamela Gibson
Turner Fine Art, 2018
“After moving to Jackson Hole, Pamela Gibson replaced her loom for a torch that burns 1200ºF to paint the landscape around her. We discussed the pleasures of painting with hot wax, the depth of her paintings including her inspiration and “resources,” the concept of time and of letting go.”
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Gibson explores time in her new works
By Kelsey Dayton, 2017
“Artist Pamela Gibson has spent the past year vigilantly watching for the smallest of details that time was passing. She’d notice a leaf turn yellow, then a few turned orange, a precursor to the valley’s transformation to fall.”
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