“Every painting begins with intuition and ends with discovery. Working in whatever mediums the painting calls for, from texture and paint to alcohol ink, resin, and gold leaf.”

“I build original paintings and mixed-media pieces until the painting tells me it’s finished. My work is rooted in the creative spirit of Western North Carolina, and I want people who live with my work to keep discovering things in it, a color they hadn’t noticed, a texture that catches the afternoon light differently than it did in the morning. A new discovery in an art as old as time.”

– Pam Bailey