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Pamela Grau

Collage and Mixed Media

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https://www.pamelagrau.com

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Creating is woven into my days. I love watching ideas take form—through cooking, painting, drawing, or simply paying attention. Road trips with my photographer sweetheart bring fresh inspiration; my images become ingredients for paint, ink, collage, and reinterpretation.

Five years ago, my body demanded a change. Years of working with toxic materials in poorly ventilated spaces finally caught up with me, and my practice shifted. Now I work in a hybrid language of Procreate, Photoshop, collage, ink, gel-plate prints, and acrylic paint—a lighter, more sustainable expression that has emerged over time. What once felt like giving something up has become a widening of possibility.

My art practice continues to evolve as I explore new ways of creating..

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Pam Grau at 10 West Gallery in SB

Alaskan Reflections #1 I’m currently showing new work at 10 West Gallery in Santa Barbara , featuring paintings inspired by a recent journey to Alaska. These landscapes began as clear, almost literal renderings of place, but over the past five months they have shifted - much like memory itself. What remains are impressions and emotional echoes, shaped by time, reflection, and feeling rather than precise geography. I’m honored to be exhibiting alongside fellow Ojai Studio Artists , Duan...

When Normalcy Feels Unraveled

I look to nature. It does not rush or explain; it simply heals. For many years Lake Casitas was depleted by drought, a visible reminder of our shared fear and uncertainty around water in our town, it felt like the end of Ojai. Then the rains returned, and the lake filled beyond expectation, overflowing with abundance. I am currently working on a Lake Casitas series, like a daily prayer in these uncertain times, it grounds me and reminds me that what feels broken is rarely beyond repair.

Pamela Grau: Exhibit at 10 West Gallery in Santa Barbara Dec 11 - Feb 9

As I prepare to deliver a new body of work to 10 West Gallery in Santa Barbara, I’m struck by the sheer volume and momentum of what emerged in my studio. They began as vivid renderings drawn from photographs of my late summer trip to Alaska, bright colors, crisp lines, and clear impressions of what I saw and felt. But as the weeks passed, the images shifted. The representational gave way to abstraction, and the work became less about place and more about memory. The final pieces in the series...

Pam Grau - Return to the Wildness

There are places that stay with you long after you’ve left them. Alaska was one of those places for me. Its vastness—those luminous skies, mirrored lakes, and quiet stretches of wildness—did something to my sense of scale and presence. I returned home with more than photographs; I carried an imprint, a vibration I wasn’t ready to set down. In the studio, that imprint has become an evolving language. I’ve been layering paint, ink, and collage papers, letting memory guide composition more than...

Pam Grau: Reflecting

Reflections on water, reflections in life. Both remind me that everything is shifting, yet still connected. This work is about holding...

Pam Grau: Reflections

I’ve been on a creative journey for more than five decades, and each stage has felt like a new chapter in a long, unfolding story. Early...

Pam Grau: Alaska Road Trip 2025

We set out to escape the heat of Ojai, our small California town of artists and seekers, expecting little more than respite.

Pamela Grau: Open Studio Invitation -July 12th!

Pam Grau - Purple Fringe Tulips If you visit my studio on July 12th during Ojai’s Second Saturday Tour, you’ll find my space filled with...

Pamela Grau: Rhododendrons in Port Townsend – a new spark in my studio

During our recent visit to Port Townsend, I was struck by the sheer abundance and beauty of the rhododendrons—lush, vibrant, and...

Pamela Grau- Painted Pathes: Notes from the Pacific Northwest

In the Spring of 2025, I embarked on a road trip through the Pacific Northwest with my partner, Ray Powers - a journey sparked by a...

Pamela Grau: Blooming Inspiration

Three years ago, Ray and I went on a date to Lotusland, a private botanical garden in Montecito, California. I was awe struck by its...

Pamela Grau: A Trip to Yellowstone

I returned home with a camera full of photos, each one a snapshot of inspiration, waiting to be transformed. For me, these images are...

Inspired by Lotusland - Pamela Grau

A couple of years ago, my sweetheart and I went on a date to Lotusland. Fast forward to an anniversary when I was searching through...

Pamela Grau - "We Are All Connected"

"We are all connected." These words have echoed through my life, resonating deeply within me since childhood, when my mother spoke of an...

Feros Ferio Primary Wall by OSA Artists

NOTE: This exhibition closed January 2023. The "Primary Wall" installed at the new Feros Ferio Winery Tasting Room, 310 East Ojai Ave,...

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