Pam Cabañas is a roving renderer of the Maine coast. “My motto,” she says, “is to wander, paint, draw, wander, record, paint, draw, wander, record, draw, paint, wander again, draw again, paint again.”
From her home in the Knox County fishing town of Friendship, she absorbs images from her forays onto and along the water and from observing its ever-moving qualities and what they stir up.
“Pam Cabañas is drawn to the abrasive truths behind Maine’s picturesque allure,” says painter Alan Magee. “She paints the working Maine coast—with its ragged edges, rockweed, winter ice, and spring mud. Her works, in charcoal, ink, pastel, and acrylic paint, convince us that she knows this region from within—that she lives deeply immersed in it rather than simply observing its surfaces. In Friendship, her adopted hometown, Pam is an engaged citizen and participant, not just a resident.”
And there are elements of the personal in her work. “I see my paintings as self-reflections of my awkward dance through life, love, and Maine,” Cabañas says. “I hope the work is evocative of mood and emotion. A soft-spoken challenge to the tides, skies, and seasons, asking that they reveal just a dime’s worth of their mysteries.”
