02/14/2026
Hello everyone,
Please have a look at silent auction items to raise money for a new Visitors Center that will be on site and adjacent to the mission site!
These artistic pieces are from local artists.
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Silent Auction Item #2
“Sho-We-Tit”
Artist: Pamela Winfield
Pamela has lived in Camp Wood for many years and has served as a board member for the Mission San Lorenzo de la Cruz Restoration Organization. She is active in history preservation and artistic conservation.
This portrait drawing measures 10 x 13 inches and is framed and ready to hang.
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CURRENT BID: $350.00
More about the artist:
When Pamela Winfield first settled in Madras, India (1996), the move seemed to trigger an exploration into more abstract images, a departure from her previous primarily naturalistic work. In some way she has now come full circle.
Since 2007 she has been learning the very structured discipline of the Flemish Renaissance “technique mixte” from fellow artist Kathleen Scarboro, using oil paints in a traditional way for the first time. (Scarboro, a keeper of the “derriere garde”, is one of very few painters who has mastered and employs this technique today, one which could easily be lost, as it does not reflect the modern mouse-click, fast-paced Zeitgeist, due to the sheer amount of time required to paint this way!)
Because this method is best applied to realistic images, especially in the rendering of skin tones, we see a return in Winfield’s work to her first love, figurative realism. One can even detect a Pre-Raphaelite tinge in some of her recent paintings, a school for which she confesses a kind of guilty pleasure fondness.
Her sensibilities, however, have also been tempered by her abstract
explorations (which are no means at an end, but serve as a kind of
counterpoint to the more arduous realism). This is seen for example in her use of negative space and in her general compositional approach.
“I prefer to keep what is said about any visual art actually to a minimum. Let the pictures resonate with the viewer simply on their own!” After roaming the world most of her life, returning to her artistic roots is synchronous with a move in 2008 to Camp Wood, a small town (only a few hours’ drive from her Austin birthplace) in the Texas Hill Country.
Enjoy more of Pamela's art here: http://new.pamelawinfield.com/?page_id=42
