Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (b. 1980, Mochudi, Botswana) creates beautifully diaphanous imagery in a variety of media, including pencil, oil, watercolour, gouache and acrylic paint. The works reference dreams, mythology, historial paintings and personal memories, amalgamating layers of imagery to create emotive, autobiographical paintings. In
Storm, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum portrays a couple clearly in distress; the woman leans towards her lover in a state of longing while he tries to push away, while behind them turbulent clouds dance around a mountain range, and a surge of people on horseback race towards us. The effect is filmic and mysterious, the muted colours somehow infuse the dramatic imagery with a sense of distance and romance.