Painting at the National Gallery of Art

Pamela Jarrett is best known for her works of portraits, still lifes, and vanitas. Her career as an artist started in New York, but her thirst for knowledge and adventure led her overseas. In the early nineties, she studied the Masters in Italy, spending most of her time in Florence.She found it possible to remain in Italy, where she lived as a painter for six years.

Ms. Jarrett, who paints only with oils, was trained to paint from a single light source and never from photographs. She subscribes to a technique that was used before cameras were invented, and believes that the spirit of the subject is best-captured in person.

Ms. Jarrett is currently living in the Washington, D.C. area and is available for commissions.

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

 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

Studied

1995-7 Charles H. Cecil School, Florence, Italy
1998 Simona Dolce of Florence Academy, Florence
1987 Leonard Pardon School of Specialist Decoration, New York 
 

Affiliations

2012 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Member of Copyist Program

Member of Portrait Society of America
 
Currently represented by Eisele Galleries, Cincinnati