Artist’s life views on display at FAC

  • <br>For the Enterprise
  • Monday, March 3, 2008 11:53am

For the month of February, the Edmonds Arts Festival Museum will present “From the Beginning,” a retrospective of work by Pamela B. Harold, which will be accompanied by an exhibit in the Edmonds Arts Commission Display Case of the artist’s travel journals titled “Keeping It Simple.”

These paintings feature subjects from the Northwest coast of British Columbia to the rocky shores of Nova Scotia, from the west coast of Washington and Oregon to the hill towns of Tuscany.

Harold’s watercolors have a distinctive clarity of light and color that exhibit her mastery of the medium.

From her studio she watches the continually changing light over the Puget Sound. Each day brings a new artistic challenge. “I begin my watercolors with a detailed drawing, then freely paint the basic washes and weave color through the painting to connect the shapes,” Harold said of her technique. “I gradually build up transparent layers of paint to emphasize the play of light and shadows. I am excited by glowing colors and strong shapes. I want to capture the light as it hits the edge of an object or the color as it glows within a shadow. I paint in celebration of my vision and to encourage the viewer to see the world in a new and special way.”

Harold, a noted watercolor artist, teacher and lecturer, is on the board of the Edmonds Arts Commission and Women Painters of Washington, as well as a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She served as an advisor for the Edmonds Cultural Update Plan Committee and as a juror for the CASE Recognition Awards at Edmonds Community College. Harold was the Poster Artist for the Edmonds Arts Festival in 1999. Her paintings have won many awards and are included in both private and corporate collections.

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