The Artwork of Pamela Benda
Fine Art Biography
Trained at the prestigious Arts Students League in New York City, Pamela has been painting and teaching for over thirty years. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including first and second place for portraiture and landscape in the John Sloan Competion in New York city; Best in show, the Pastel
society of America Award, NYC and the Arts Students League Scholarship award two years consecutively.
Pamela is represented in over fifty private and public collections in the U.S. and Europe, including the Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico, and has been widely reported on for her unique brand of impressionism in feature articles in Cultural and Arts magazines in California where she lived for most of her adult life.
Known for her portraits of well known citizens on California's central coast, her landscapes, according to Prelude magazine in Carmel, are "characterizations of the land".
"Rather than a super realistic copying, I endeavor to capture the spirit of my subjects...by striving for truth in color". A greater body of her work can be viewed at her fine art print gallery, go to; http://pambenda.tripod.com.
(reprinted with permission from Community Spirit Magazine, Carmel, Ca)
Copyright 2008. Images connot be reproduced without the written permission of the artist.
Art work:
1. Julia Butterfly and Luna
2. Earth Warrior
3. Three Sisters
The Giveaway
by Pamela Benda
The Giveaway is a spiritual, earthly adventure, and a love story that spans three thousand years. Based on the author’s past-life regression under hypnosis, which begins this novel, we are transported back in time to the drama and pathos that was the life of Ruth, a slave in ancient Egypt. Her overwhelming yearning for freedom sounds the theme of this poetic “autobiography” of reincarnation, which encompasses five lifetimes, including a validating glimpse into the author’s present life.
The story evolves into a startlingly realistic recreation of traditional Lakota, Sioux culture, spirituality, and world view as seen through the eyes of Cetan sa (Red Hawk), a Lakota Peaceman (councilor and peacemaker), whose extraordinary life and times comprise the bulk of this exciting and enlightening book. Lakota ceremony, community, psychology and dialogue, alive with authenticity, color and depth, lend a real conviction to the author’s assertion of past lives.
A book you will read again and again…for the pleasure and for the subtly conveyed wisdom. The voice of Cetan sa, and a band of Lakota now extinct, rings true and clear across time and culture, with a message both timely and profound.
The author writes: “It is the true story of one soul’s journey…and perhaps it is the story of every soul’s journey.”
Whatever your beliefs regarding reincarnation, it is a journey you will also take, and a story you will never forget.
Contact the author to purchase your copy: [email protected]
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