Artist Biography:
Pamela Montague was born in Southern Delaware to a family that embraced the arts. This enabled her to discover her very own love for the arts. Many childhood years were spent in and around the surf. Throughout her life, a camera was always in her hands. After high school, Pamela attended the Art Institute of Philadelphia. One lucky day in 2003, she opened her own gallery, Lightspun Gallery in downtown Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. During this time, the sky was the limit. She exhibited fine art, black & white florals, and hand colored floral and landscape images. Lightspun Gallery also represented many well known local and regional artists and photographers.
Her black and white collections have been on exhibit in Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Many commissioned pieces are in numerous states within the United States. Two particular images, Sugared Magnolia and Unfolding were juried into numerous East Coast exhibits including the Washington Gallery of Photography in Bethesda, MD and The Robeson Gallery at Penn State University. The sepia toned image, Gordons Pond, was juried into the premiere exhibit, “BiggsShot” at the Biggs Museum of American Art and received an honorable mention. Pamela was a recipient of a Delaware Division of Arts Opportunity Grant that enabled her to participate in an invitational traveling exhibit entitled “Treasures of the Land; Delaware Barns and Outbuildings”, alongside 13 emerging and professional artists.
Artist Statement:
“I love photography, I always have. What really inspires and motivates me to capturing shots is the Inspiration from energy, light, texture, and elements. I first fell in love with black and white photography for its stunning simplicity. Along the way, color photography became more and more intriguing to me as I explored alternative processes through hand coloring with oil paints on photography paper and image transfers with acrylics on paper. Photography has always been the basis of capturing beauty in some way or another for me.”
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