Pam Jenkins with her artwork, on display this month at Orcas Island Artworks
The Orcas Island Artworks will exhibit pastel landscape paintings by Pam Jenkins through the month of June.
Pam was an art major in college for a year before choosing to major in elementary and early childhood education. Most of her work was in fiber arts until she visited a gallery in Bow-Edison twenty years ago and fell in love with the look of landscapes in pastel. “It took me another twelve years to get up the nerve to try it,” she says, but after taking a pastel class in 2001, she was hooked.
Her landscapes are primarily of Orcas, Skagit Valley and the Northwest. “I love the ever changing color, light, contrast and textures in our environment. Pastels have a soft richness similar to working in fibers – layers of peek-a-boo colors interacting with each other like woven strands.”
The Artworks is open daily from 10 to 6.
Pam Jenkins is one of the few artists on Orcas that has the wonderful formal skills of color and light and has managed to produce imagery that enhances the quiet beauties of the Skagit Valley as well as Orcas Island. I highly respect her work and have invited her to speak to my class on July 6th. Interested parties are welcome with advanced notice. Contact Terry Johnson @ 376-1061