Pam Carter
Basking And Berthed
Oil on Canvas
With a painting career spanning over five decades, Pam Carter has built up a worldwide reputation and following for her work, making her one of Scotland's best-known and collected contemporary landscape artists working today.
Pam was born and brought up in Tanzania until she was 13. She went on to study at Glasgow School of Art in the early seventies. Her recent awards include the Laing Prize, Visual Arts Scotland, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Award at the annual RGI exhibition. Pam exhibits widely throughout the UK and many other parts of the world.
Having lectured part-time for many years at Falkirk College, Pam now paints full-time from her studio in Torrance. She is mostly influenced by the bright colours of the Scottish landscape. The white sands of the west coast are set against dramatic skies and the silhouettes of outlying islands stand like sentinels. Her interest in the use of strong colours may come from her origins in Africa. However, art school al... [more]
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