Pamela Edwards Artist


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artist's statement​​

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​My mother and grandmother were painters and influenced my love of the arts at a very young
age. As a child, it was my dream to become a ballerina or an artist. The pain of those toe shoes was too much. But the making art continued to seduce me.  At 10 my Grandmother gave me a canvas and let me use her oil paints. A decade later I was selling my paintings. The next decade I worked with interior designers selling large woven wall hangings. One was purchased for permanent collection in an art museum. The following ​decade I studied photography and was especially captivated by Polaroid image transfers. 

 Foreign cultures have also been a passion of mine. I want to visit as much of the world as I can.
 As an adult, I made traveling a priority which gave me the opportunity to see the world’s great
 works of art and architecture and visit and photograph diverse cultures. 

  My love of mosaics started after discovering a book by a painter/textile artist, Kaffe Fassett. He
  too had worked in many mediums before trying mosaics. There is a considerable variety of subject    matter in my work from representational to abstract, and non-objective. The thread that runs
  throughout, regardless of the medium, is a love of color. The paintings of the Fauves especially,
  Henri Matisse and Andre Derain and the colorful, haunting images by Gustav Klimt have
  always inspired me. 

​  The variety available to the mosaic maker is limitless. I know I've only begun to scratch the surface
  of the possibilities of this medium.