Art Walk April 2026
Pamela Wachtler.
Solo exhibition. Wachtler works in monotype and oil, building images through layers of tone and mark that hold their process openly. For the April First Friday, she brings a new series rooted in Pacific Northwest landscape.
Pamela Wachtler makes pictures that look deliberate but hold evidence of surprise. Monotype pulls produce a single impression — the plate is inked, pressed, and that’s it. What comes off is partly planned, partly not.
The Pacific Northwest series on view in April moves through herons, shoreline grasses, and the particular quality of light that comes off water under a grey sky. None of it is documentary. The images are accumulated from observation rather than copied from it — built up from marks that remember what they saw rather than reporting it.
Wachtler also shows oil paintings alongside the monotypes. The two media speak to each other: both accumulate layers, both reward close looking, both carry the specific weight of the artist’s hand at work.
