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Pam Dearing

Artist's Profile

Having taught art for much of her working life after an initial training in Fine Art, she worked also as an illustrator for many years, recently choosing to study Illustration to distinction level, through the University of Plymouth at North Devon College, as a challenge to take on fresh ideas.

In recent years she has worked on local community art projects, exhibiting a wide variety of students' artwork as part of ongoing promotion across the county; she has run art workshops within schools, and contributed in 2005 to the DCS Secondary Art & Design Schools Conference in Devon. For many years her illustration work [and some painting] has sold through commissions, and she is now for the first time, after stepping out of teaching, concentrating on working in her own studio.

Her paintings were shown locally at the Biosphere Reserve Conference at North Devon College in 2003, including a separate exhibition of her own photography of this coastal area.

June 2009  - North Devon Festival Art Trek exhibition at the studio, & also at the Queen's Theatre Gallery

September 2009 - Devon Open Studios exhibition at the studio, & inclusion on The Artist's Wall, The Plough Arts Centre, Torrington.

April 23rd - May 31st 2010 - Solo exhibition at Gallery 41 Appledore, 'Spindrift & Rhyme'.

Artist's Statement

Paintings, illustration, photography – drawn together with a compulsive love of words which tend to weave their way into my images.  Poetry, including that of my own, is often the starting point for a series of studies, and the resulting visual exploration often triggers further writing.  The ‘Littoral’ and ‘Tracks’ studies [from both the West Penwith & the wider Cornish coast, & the North Devon coastal areas] naturally still influence some of my work.

My paintings are worked in mixed media – mainly using acrylics, oil pastels, inks and collage - often weft with calligraphic detail.  Photography can be part of the exploration process, and is also developed in its own right as a medium working with images through light & pattern.