The
Cheyenne County Art Guild selected Pamela Brown as February Artist of
the Month. Brown is a CCAG member haling from Akron, Colorado.
Washington County, Colorado, has been her home for over thirty-five
years. She works primarily in watercolor and is best known for her soft
and subtle paintings depicting the people and landscape of the high
plains in eastern Colorado. Her work brings life and beauty to an area
often thought of as barren and desolate.
Brown
and her late husband lived on the plains thirty-four miles southwest of
Akron for twenty-eight years where they raised their five children.
She continued to paint and enter shows during this time. In 2001 she
opened Sand Creek Studio in Akron; a working studio and a gallery for
her work. In 2005 she remarried and moved to town where she continues
to paint, enter shows, and occasionally teaches art classes. Her
husband builds custom frames and does all of the framing for her work.
Public
commissioned paintings by Pamela Brown include the National Radial
Engine Exhibition in Akron, CO--2004 through 2011, the 100 Year Old
Washington County Courthouse in 2009, and a Commemorative Envelope for
the Akron Post Office in 2007. She has painted numerous private
commissioned artworks, too.
Her
award-winning artworks have been exhibited at the Western &
Wildlife Show at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, the Western Spirit Show in
Cheyenne, Wyo., the American Plains Artists Show in Texas, the New
Mexico Small Paintings Show, the Catherine Lorillard Wolf Art Club's
exhibition in New York City, NY, a Featured Artist show at the Korshare
Indian Museum in La Junta, CO, as well as at the CCAG's Spring Members'
Show in Sidney, NE.
Pamela
Brown's limited edition print of a watercolor titled "Pink Cactus" is
on display now through Sunday, March 8th at the Sidney Public Library.
Twelve other artworks of Brown's are displayed at the Cheyenne County
Community Center. The public is encouraged to view all of these fine
artworks by this artist who has been called the "Chronicler of the High
Plains." As Brown once said, "People think of the mountains in the
western half of Colorado, but there is the other half of Colorado and
it's beautiful, too!"
