VALDOSTA — Artist Pam Scruggs draws with color. While many painters seek to use paint to draw lines upon their canvases, Scruggs creates shape, depth and lighting with pure color.

It is a technique which Vincent Van Gogh often used: A style which does not rely upon traditional line drawings or muddied colors for shadows, or muted colors for light.

Scruggs’ style does the same thing. Pure color, presented in broken patterns, working like a weaving of paint, accentuating light and deepening shadows. Her canvases are exciting. Her palette and her eye for composition give these two-dimensional canvases a three-dimensional quality.

Even more, it gives them the sense of movement. Breezes seem to rustle plants and fur. Faces seems to pulse with the movement of blood and sinew beneath painted flesh. Subjects seem to breathe in a world which Scruggs has created on her canvases. It is a world in which Pam Scruggs pours her energies and emotions.

“With each brushstroke, emotions bound forth as I try to convey my feelings about each piece,” Scruggs notes in an artistic statement. “I use the rhythm of broken brush strokes and lively colors to help me achieve my goal.”

Viewers can experience Scruggs’ work this evening during a reception for her new exhibit at Smith Northview Hospital. Scruggs has enjoyed art since childhood. She worked as an interior designer for several years. Upon retiring from interior design, Scruggs says she has “come full circle and am once again continually drawing and painting.”

She pursues her painting with love and passion. “Deeply personal,” Pam Scruggs notes, “my paintings are my aesthetic progeny.”



• GALLERY

Artist Pam Scruggs’ work exhibited.

When: A free, public

reception for the exhibit is scheduled 5-7 p.m. Monday. The show

continues for the next several weeks.

Where: Smith Northview Hospital, 4280 North

Valdosta Road.