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A native Californian, Pamela
Schiffer has lived in Santa Barbara
for over twenty-five years. She studied painting and ceramics at UCSB,
earning her B.A. in 1982. In her recent work she focuses on detailed
portrayals of the local landscape and shoreline in oils and pastels.
She received an Independent Artist Program award from the Santa Barbara
County Arts Commission and the Arts Fund in 1993. Her work has been
exhibited at the Craig Krull Gallery, the Easton Gallery, the Channing
Peake Gallery, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, the University
Art Museum, Westmont College and the Ventura County Museum of History
& Art. She is also included in the Easton Gallery publications
“Gardens of Santa Barbara”, “The Santa Clara Valley
of Ventura County” and “The Easton Gallery: Fifteen Year
Anniversary, 1990-2005”. She divides her time between her art
and raising her three daughters.
“My paintings continue to study the
landscape and ocean areas of Santa Barbara, as defined by light.
Some are subtle, reflective and atmospheric studies while others
are very direct, focusing on the effects of full sunlight or moonlight
on something as stark as an agave stalk.
I am moved by the power of simple things in my observations of nature,
be it a lone drifting cloud, birds soaring, a stand of trees in
the distance, backlit and glowing, or the sublime blue of the sky.
My paintings reflect my sense of things beautiful and profound,
joyful and optimistic, quiet, still and timeless.”
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