A passion for orchestrating colour is a thread which runs through all my work and it has continued to enthrall and intrigue me from my first delight dipping a brush into a precious metal watercolour box during the London Blitz through to the present day.
My inspiration evolves out of the serendipity of lived experience and interpreting it through the disciplines of painting, printmaking and always drawing. I engage with each piece in my studio, until it seems to resonate with its own mysterious presence, evoking mood and feeling.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The Australian National Library, Canberra
The University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Wolfson College, Oxford
The Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
The City Art Gallery, Worcester
The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
The University of Birmingham
The Oxford Education Committee
Tenby Museum and Art Gallery, Wales
The Harkness Foundation, New York, USA
Birmingham City Library
Southampton City Art Gallery
The Rijksmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
The USA, South America, UK, Continental Europe, Asia and Australia
INFORMATION
Pamela Scott Wilkie graduated in Fine Art specialising in painting going on to win a Royal Academy David Murray Landscape Scholarship.and one for further post graduate study and travel. She first discovered the excitement of screen printing as a medium while living, working and exhibiting in the USA. Since then she has produced paintings, prints and artist's books as well as lecturing, assessing, curating and working for organisations encouraging open access to the arts. Her work has been recognised by awards and is shown widely in the UK and abroad.
CATALOGUES AND ESSAYS
1990 20th Century Painters and Sculptors, Frances Spalding
1999 In Progress, Solo Exhibition Catalogue Introduction, Worcester City Art Galler, the late David Brown, Assistant Keeper of the Modern Collection, Tate Gallery, London
2004 Some of the Best Things in Life Happen Accidentally, Jonathan Watkins, former Director of The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2006 Beneath the Surface, Professor Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, USA
QUOTES
(1) The late David Brown, Tate
(2) Professor Wendy Doniger, Collector
(3) Jonathan Watkins, Director of the IKON Gallery