Tuesday 24 July 2012

Pencil Artists

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Pencil Artists Biography
Pam Belcher is strictly a colored pencil artist. She draws a variety of subjects - whatever suits her fancy at the moment. Pam is especially fascinated by the wondrous patterns and colors found in nature and man made objects. She has been working in colored pencils since 1995. The slow laborious medium suits her working style perfectly, and she usually completely enjoys the process. Sometimes it does become a bit much!

Pam was born in New York, grew up in Denver, and after high school moved to the Seattle area. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington State University in 1975, and also attended Burnley School of Graphic Design for further education. She put her art on hold for awhile when she went to Norway for a year in 1981 with her new husband, Ed, who was a visiting scientist working on helium speech unscrambling. Upon returning, she spent several years being a stay at home mom. When her son was in elementary school, Pam offered to help out with art projects. She was immediately put to work and taught a weekly art lesson. It was then that she discovered colored pencils. She started drawing seriously, took a few workshops, read millions of books, and joined the Seattle Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America. In that group she met a large number of generous, talented people who have become valued friends and continue to help her hone her craft. Pam also enjoyed teaching drawing at the Northshore Senior Center in Bothell, Washington for fourteen years.
Pam has exhibited widely
John Stephen Gibb was born in 1939 at Dalton-in-Furness on the edge of the English Lake District. It was there that he developed his love of the outdoors and mountaineering.
His school years were notable for a complete lack of success, owing to his dyslexia, which went unrecognised. He attended a local art school for a short period in the 1950’s – again with little success.
From the early 1960’s until the 1980’s, it was a life of adventure or irresponsibility. His travels took him to Scandinavia for the mountaineering and skiing. He worked for a time as a lumberjack in Sweden, and as a  seaman in the Norwegian Merchant Marine.
He became a yacht master, on one occasion crossing the Atlantic under sail.
After working as a commercial diver in Trinidad and South America, he settled for a while in Jamaica. He spent some time sailing in the Caribbean, delivering yachts for owners mostly from North America to the West Indies. He developed his own watersports business in Jamaica, always making sure that he left as much time for skiing in New England as possible.
He returned to England in the eary 1980’s with a serious ski injury and it was then that he re-invented himself as an artist.
Awards

The quality of John’s work has been recognised by judges at many juried Arts Festivals in the USA and he has won numerous awards.
In 2008, he was awarded 'Best of Show' at America's top rated Arts Festival in Belleville, Illinois.
More recently, he won the David Cook Award for Drawing at the prestigious National Exhibition of Wildlife Art, held in August 2010 in the United Kingdom.
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