Artist Commentary and Biography; New Show Feb 4, 2017
Modern Painters is pleased to present PAM WILMAN "RAMBLINGS OF A PRAIRIE ARTIST", opening on February 4th from 12-4 pm and on view until Feb. 28, 2017.
"My interest in contemporary issues, such as the protection of the environment, is woven into my choice of subject matter in the landscape, in how landscape painting can educate an audience about endangered spaces in Alberta."
Pam Wilman is one of Alberta's leading plein-aire landscape painters, working on-site at a variety of locations throughout the province, from Edmonton's parkland to Waterton park. Kananaskis, Canmore and Crowsnest Pass have been her preferred spots the last few years. She works with watercolour and oil paint in a direct drawing- with- brush technique, observed with quick and intuitive handling, with colourful passages of impasto pigments. Paintings are often left unreworked, as they were in the field, and retain the original fresh translation felt and seen on the landscape.
Wilman's handling of subject and paint is no different than many other painters, they all use similiar eyes, fingers and paints. Artists learn from other artists; influences and similiarities abound. In looking through Wilman's current work, one can see a bit of Turner colour here and there, a bit of A.Y. Jackson in the curves and contours, a bit of Monet in the paint handling. In particular, one mountain painting (11th down) has the same colouration and handling as the famous Monet canvas of the river Thames which was the first to be called "impressionist".
Pam Wilman studied at the University of Alberta in the early 1980's, and was the Department's Yale University Candidate to attend the prestigious Yale Summer School on scholarship in 1983. After earning her BFA, she obtained Art Teaching Credentials at the California State U. and returned to Alberta to continue painting. She attended the Leighton Centre and Emma Lake Artist Workshops, earned Alberta Culture Grants to travel and paint Alberta, and since 1999, been in over 35 Group shows and had 5 Solo Shows. The Crowsnest Pass Public Art Gallery in Frank was the most recent exhibition in October 2016. She is one of Alberta's most dedicated and under appreciated painters who deserves a wider support and audience.
Painting on site landscape, 'pleine-aire', was largely a creation of British and French artists who wanted to record their travels, sometimes with scientific or documentary purposes in mind. J.M.Turner was dedicated to the practice, it was taken up by the young impressionists, and at the turn of the 19th c. came to North America, Canada in particular, with the young Group of Seven artists and others who made it their mission to create a national art based on landscape experience. Every generation since has produced great
landscape painters in this tradition, regardless of current trends and fashions in society and the small corner of the artworld.
"My interest in contemporary issues, such as the protection of the environment, is woven into my choice of subject matter in the landscape, in how landscape painting can educate an audience about endangered spaces in Alberta."
Pam Wilman is one of Alberta's leading plein-aire landscape painters, working on-site at a variety of locations throughout the province, from Edmonton's parkland to Waterton park. Kananaskis, Canmore and Crowsnest Pass have been her preferred spots the last few years. She works with watercolour and oil paint in a direct drawing- with- brush technique, observed with quick and intuitive handling, with colourful passages of impasto pigments. Paintings are often left unreworked, as they were in the field, and retain the original fresh translation felt and seen on the landscape.
Wilman's handling of subject and paint is no different than many other painters, they all use similiar eyes, fingers and paints. Artists learn from other artists; influences and similiarities abound. In looking through Wilman's current work, one can see a bit of Turner colour here and there, a bit of A.Y. Jackson in the curves and contours, a bit of Monet in the paint handling. In particular, one mountain painting (11th down) has the same colouration and handling as the famous Monet canvas of the river Thames which was the first to be called "impressionist".
Pam Wilman studied at the University of Alberta in the early 1980's, and was the Department's Yale University Candidate to attend the prestigious Yale Summer School on scholarship in 1983. After earning her BFA, she obtained Art Teaching Credentials at the California State U. and returned to Alberta to continue painting. She attended the Leighton Centre and Emma Lake Artist Workshops, earned Alberta Culture Grants to travel and paint Alberta, and since 1999, been in over 35 Group shows and had 5 Solo Shows. The Crowsnest Pass Public Art Gallery in Frank was the most recent exhibition in October 2016. She is one of Alberta's most dedicated and under appreciated painters who deserves a wider support and audience.
Painting on site landscape, 'pleine-aire', was largely a creation of British and French artists who wanted to record their travels, sometimes with scientific or documentary purposes in mind. J.M.Turner was dedicated to the practice, it was taken up by the young impressionists, and at the turn of the 19th c. came to North America, Canada in particular, with the young Group of Seven artists and others who made it their mission to create a national art based on landscape experience. Every generation since has produced great
landscape painters in this tradition, regardless of current trends and fashions in society and the small corner of the artworld.
Clouds Over Chief Mountain
12x18" 800.00 |
Monument Hill View
12x18" 800.00 |
Mt. Ward 20x22" 1400.00
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Above: A large selection of watercolours are available.
Left and below: oils on canvas, more selection is available. Please contact us for more images and sizes. |
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Clouds Building on the Castle 12x36" 1600.00 Castle River Fall View 12x36" 1600.00
Dark Field 24x36" 2400.00
Wild Flowers On the Ridge 18x48" 2400.00
Wind Gusts In the Castle 18x48" 2400.00
Summer Skies 30x36" 3000.00
Old Man River Vista 8x24" 900.00
View From Castle Falls 8x24" 900.00
Electrical Storm Coming On the Castle 24x48" 2800.00
Red Tail Hawks' Paradise 24x48" 2800.00
Livingstone Haze 18x36" 1800.00
Hikers' View 30x38" 3100.00