Pam Shields Roule
I am a figurative artist working predominately in charcoal pen & ink. I layer the charcoal to create forms with substance and weight. In my pen and ink drawings, I take blind color contour sketchbook drawings and rework them to create abstract forms, using cross hatching to give volume and depth to the contours.
Art is a way for me to observe and examine the world and open the door to the unexpected.
I studied with Anita Steckel at the Art Students League of New York and have been a member of Ceres Gallery in the Chelsea district of New York City for ten years. Ceres is a feminist, not-for- profit, alternative gallery, dedicated to the promotion of contemporary women in the arts. I have had four solo shows at the gallery.
Locally, I have shown works in group shows at The Goggleworks, Alvernia University, and Clay on Main. I am also a member of the collaborative group Exquisite Force. As a group of four artists, we created the backdrops for the Berks Opera presentation of Madame Butterfly. We also designed and installed in the West Reading IS mural on Cherry Street in West Reading PA.
I live and work in West Reading. My studio is above the Art Plus Gallery on Penn Ave.
Elaine Soltis
Art has the sophistication of simplicity. It transforms by illuminating, educating, and motivating. It is not easy to be confident in creating, when transitions are part of a new way of seeing, learning, and changing.
Still, I tell stories by my mixed media art. All are a reflection of my thoughts. Our earth’s present journey is currently the powerful force which propels my painting.
It is the layering action of color, mark, form, and space, that communicates my emotions and experiences. It is the splendor of touch, brush stroke, and medium fluid movement that naturally evolve. Where I am and where the destination unfolds, are all part of the story
Elaine Soltis is a mixed media artist whose fine art has spanned two decades. Her paintings are designed in two studios, Goggle Works Studio 211, Reading, PA. and a studio from her home near the Nolde Forest State Park. A third studio is now underway, near the Lake Erie expanse of beach. All are minutes away from urban, down to earth roots, and changing seasonal land meeting sunsetting sky. Elaine writes, “I am very grateful for my creative living and colorful life. The changing view of expansive nature is where my story is imagined, told, and painted.”
Concerns about the changing climate are now underway. It is an urgent call to all, to reuse, recycle, and reimagine. Our look to our warming changes, bring an urgency not of tomorrow, but rather are currently underway. It is action from this moment on that will dictate the future of water, land, and sky.
Her original designs can be found not only in Pennsylvania regions, but across the US. The Pacific Northwest, Iowa farmland, Jersey shore, New England, and the outreaches of the Carolinas are home to many commissioned pieces. Friends become kindred spirits as she shares visual story, dreams, and nature. Dimensional painting becomes an open invitation to touch within shadows and highlight, glide across the glass surface of water, and trace the outline figure in a passing cloudscape.
Currently, Elaine Soltis Originals are found in art centers, galleries, educational forums, medical centers, videos, online and in person meet and greets, and both solo and collaborative exhibitions. Designing new technique, she keeps her dimensional style as a deep connection to magnetic color.