Painting at the National Gallery

Pam is best known for her Portraits, Still Lifes and Vanitas. Her career as an artist began in New York as a decorative painter, but her desire for knowledge and adventure led her to Italy.  She studied the Masters at a small school in Florence and remained in Tuscany for six years developing her craft.

She is a studio painter, trained to work in a darkened room with a single, northern light source. The colors achieved by this technique yield lush tones in Portraits as well as in Still Lifes. It is Pam's belief the spirit of a person or object is best realized from actual life settings rather than from photographs.

Pam is currently specializing in Vanitas, a genre of still life painting dating back to Antiquity.  The Vanitas is a portrait depicting the person through the presentation of various objects and symbols. It is an homage. A skull or snuffed out candle is often in the work to represent mortality and the transient nature of the material life.

As a member of the Copyist Program at the National Gallery of Art, Pam augments her skills by recreating the likes of Turner, Rembrandt and Degas.

Email: Pamela.M.Jarrett@gmail.com

Phone: 703-945-5025

Solo Exhibitions

2009 Charity Auction for Planned Parenthood and Children’s Hospital
2002 Gallia e Peter, Milan, Italy

     2001 Rittenhouse Gallery, Philadelphia

2001 Tamohara Gallery, Hudson, NY

1998 Le Torre Gallery, Greve, Italy

 

Group Exhibitions

Green Springs Gardens, Arlington - Master Art Copyists

2018 Arts Club of Washington - National Gallery of Art Copyists
 2011 Artspace, Herndon Virginia Finalist in Portrait Competition
2006-9 Closson’s Art Gallery, Cincinnati
2005 Patricia Weiner Gallery, Cincinnati
2003-4 Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville
2002-4 La Civetta Gallery, Greve, Italy

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