Pamela Thurston

Pam was born in Chile and raised in Quebec; she earned her CEGEP (Arts) diploma in 1972 at Concordia University, Montreal, where she had her first formal fine art instruction. During  travel in Europe in 1974, she made the decision to study photography and returned to Canada to enter the Photograpy Program at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. This training led her to work in restoring, retouching and hand–colouring photographs.

She moved between London, Edmonton and Vancouver working as a graphic artist and photo artist, and finally settled in Edmonton in 1985 when she became the single parent of her two young boys. In 1986, she returned to school and studied at University of Alberta, earning a Bachelor of Fine Art degree, “with distinction”, in 1992.  Upon graduation she worked as a freelance graphic designer and then as a coordinator and instructor of adult and youth training programs.  In 2000 she left  the city, her job and her children to live and paint in her current lakeside home.

Exhibitions

2007               CIBC Wood Gundy, Edmonton, Alberta
2007-08           Annual Juried Show, Pigeon Lake Artists Society
2006                Feature Artist, ArtBeat Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta
2005-08           Annual Juried Show, VAAA Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2005-06           Annual Lacombe Art Exhibit  (Juried Group), Lacombe, Alberta
2003               "Natural Selections" (Solo) Stanley Milner Foyer Gallery, Edmonton
2003               "Natural Thoughts " (Solo) Red Deer & District AAC Gallery, Red Deer
2003               "Food for the Soul " (Solo) Cafe Delite, Edmonton
2000               Celebration of the Arts (Juried Group),  Red Deer & District Allied Arts
1997 – 2007     Annual Members’ Shows, Harcourt House Gallery , Edmonton

Education

1997               Colour Workshops (Sue Bell), Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton
1992               Bachelor of Fine Art (with distinction), University of Alberta, Edmonton
1976               Photography Program, Fanshawe College, London, Ontario 
1972               CEGEP Arts Diploma, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Memberships

Visual Arts Alberta Association, Edmonton, Alberta
WECAN Society of Artists, Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta

 

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