Pamela Lines has been drawing since early childhood. She graduated from the Kindergarten Teachers’ College with a speciality in art, and throughout her life has tried acrylics, oils, charcoal, pastel and other styles.
One day, at a meeting of a local art group in Rotorua, two experienced watercolourists noticed Pamela’s works and their comments and mentorship created a spark the artist simply couldn’t ignore. She switched to watercolours and found her calling in depicting the coasts, the sand, the harbours – anything and everything by the water.
“I’m consciously affected by my environment,” Pamela says. She holds beginner watercolour classes for adults in a gorgeous Waihi Beach studio and sells her artworks at Waihi Beach Gallery, hardly ever venturing too far from the water that fascinates and mesmerises her. “My current series of abstract work has a specific process in applying water and paint and I just love watching it move.”