Pam's admiration for wildlife and her love of nature were embedded in her as a child growing up on a dairy farm in New England.

A graduate of the School of the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, Pam spent fifteen years honing her business skills as a photographic lab manager and an advertising traffic manager. She continued to paint despite her busy career and also began investigating weaving as an art form She left the corporation business world in 1990 to work full-time on her art career.


Passionate about color, form and texture, Pam laid aside her painting and began creating hand-woven 3D landscapes entitled "WeaveScapes".


" I hand-pick yarns for their color and textural quality in order to capture the beauty and tranquility inherent in the natural world. A finished 'WeaveScape' has a painterly look, so much so that, at first glance, people will often mistake it for an oil painting."

Her weaving soon evolved to include the embellishment with fabric paints which further enhanced the three dimensional 'natural look and feel' of her "WeaveScapes." Honors include: Small Expressions '93 Hearst Center for the Arts (Handweavers Guild of America juried exhibit), Memphis Association of Craft Artists, Best in Weaving, 1993 Theater of Memphis Show, and a one-woman show at Borders Books and More Superstore in Cary, North Carolina.

After ten years of weaving Pam once again began to concentrate on her painting, specifically watercolors. She also switched her focus from landscapes to her lifelong love of birds.

Wanting to do more than simply create images of birds in their environment, Pam chose to format her paintings similar to the pages of her nature journal, combining her imagery with specific information about the size, color, habitat and breeding and fledgling behavior of the depicted bird.


'A Birder's Journal Series' embodies Pam's personal commitment to the continual harmonious existence of all living things. Each painting is the result of meticulous research. Pam utilizes her extensive birding library and finds endless inspiration from the wildlife drama played out around her studio and myriad encounters with wildlife in all the places she has lived: Arizona, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. She also relies on many resources including Friends with Feathers and Cornell Lab of Ornithology.


A percentage of profits from selected prints are donated to not-for-profit organizations committed to educating the general public and rescuing and rehabilitating wildlife.


"The Great Horned Owl and Rough-legged Hawk are being held by Ron Walker, biologist and nature interpreter of Friends with Feathers, Inc., a not-for-profit aviary. Ron has several birds of prey (usually eighteen to twenty) that cannot be released. He gives presentations to area schools, nature centers, nursing homes, summer camps, etc."

Pam paints with transparent watercolors which she sometimes emlellishes with pen and ink, soft pastels or watercolor pencils. She maintains a realistic style when creating the actual birds, but chooses to employ a more impressionistic approach to the background and environs which allows her to unify the various images within the paintings.

"I love the magic of watercolor. It allows me the freedom to choose between realism and impressionism. I can't resist watercolor's playfulness."

Pam has studied with the likes of Tom Lynch (Aurora, IL), Pat Lusk (Hilton Head Island) and Al Fincher (Charlotte, NC).

She is also an accomplished calligrapher, having studied with a number of professionals and has become a member of calligraphy guilds wherever she has lived. She focuses on italic and pointed pen fonts.

Pam can be contacted at:
PO Box 3008
Bluffton, SC 29910
843-422-5964
pjbartstudio@hargray.com