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About the Artist
"Who am I," what a good question...because sometimes i don't have a clue! I look at the range of my artwork and my interests and I think, "I must have multiple personality disorder and this is a really healthy outlet for that!" And you know what? It really is!
I have been drawing and writing since I was 10 years old. Having had a great imagination I believed I was some misplaced warrior child from Africa growing up in Duluth Minnesota. Never really got over that. It was a dramatic childhood where words could't find their way out of my mouth so I journaled every thought onto paper and dreamed of the card company I would create in adulthood to be my voice. A box of crayons were one of the greatest treasures I would behold, I loved all the pointed colors and the magic of possibilities that box brought to me. Never outgrew that either, everything still bold, bright and outlined in black. Dr. Suess was my first love, the master poet and illustrator inspired me into adulthood, so much so my cats are made to suffer thru many readings of Green Eggs and Ham, out loud to this day! His rhythm of words and whimsical drawings are pure whizardy for any age.
So I got my degree in teaching and art in ....oh really does anyone care about that? What matters is I took a chance on being a full time Artist 15 years ago and have made a humble yet exciting career from it! May be the first best "leap" I ever took, the second was moving to Lake Havasu seven years ago from Phoenix, where the recreational and active lifestyle I enjoy came to life full tilt. I share my home with four strange cats and a new addition of a puppy (watch for new designs called "When I was a puppy"). My backyard is my best masterpiece yet and my studio is my home! I have six distinct styles of work that are commercially based in 200 self published designs, a licensing contract with Blue Mountain Art, a self published book and still like to find time for the Fine Art to feed the other side of my creative soul.
I am been fortunate to realize many dreams and believe so full heartedly in following your fire...I have such wild passion for many non art things...kite flying, skating, friendships, paddling, boating, skiing I live life in high gear and believe this...enjoy the ride, hold on for dear life, then let loose and see where you land...may be somewhere you never expected. At very turn try to be embraced by poetic magic of life in motion.
Pam alias Piper rain
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About the Art
I started off with something to say...okay with a lot to say...I was shy at one time and wrote volumes. To date, my journal notebooks number in the 50's. Stepping aside from the emotional impact of the words, I collected them together and saw an universal message. I was astounded by the response when I presented them 16 years ago on pegboard walls at my first festival, all hand done in calligraphy. As time went on I gratefully was able to incorporate the miracle of computer fonts into my work. About the same time I thought my buying audience too emotional towards my work and decided a balance was in order. So the Glyphies arrived, whimsical stick figures inspired by the ancient rock art petroglyphes. The bright colors and playful, simple messages caught on. Then I turned 40 and got more sassy, so Art with an Attitude became another style. I became the cohabitant with an unusual cat that was such a brat she needed to earn her keep, she inspired Brat Cats. My long love for Africa, dance, and a new found passion for being myself showed up as the Wild Women, the female version of the Glyphies. Then I had a Heart year, trying to celebrate it, heal it, ignite it, and another new style was born in Wild at Heart. Then I got a dog and discovered there was a lot to say about that as well. So When I was a Puppy was added. My most recent is the Scrambled Women, semi serious looking paintings with words that are meant to be muti meaning, funny or saying something else? I am super excited about the this new direction and the ideas that are flooding towards me.
While, I love all medias, I have never outgrown crayola crayons, so it continues to show up wherever I can include it. My work includes primarily, acrylics, tissue paper, watercolors, crayons, hand made paper and the cards are created using original paper scraps, computer graphics and fonts. The brighter the better with black as the contrast! I am a one woman operation and like it that way. I have ten departments and I am the head of each and its only employee. With over 300 designs in print, I keep busy trying to create, produce, package and market myself the best I can. For the most part its working and only getting bettet. The galleries represented here span a 20 year period of ideas, impressions, thoughts of my life as I go along getting older and hopefully wiser.
I am lucky to have a following that appreciates and grows with me...and that fact makes it not just my work but "my lifes work." Thanks for looking! Pam
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