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Biography & Background
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Welsh slate, water and pebbles.
Pam Harmer is a sculptor and letter cutter in stone. She has been working in stone since 1984 and uses lettering in her work as an artist. She has acquired a wide skill base through doing a variety of commissions giving her the versatility of being able to work in stone, with lettering in calligraphy and letter cutting, drawing, portraits on paper and in stone, some woodwork gilding and working in oils, watercolour and egg tempera. This enables her to express her ideas in a wide range of media. She teaches, calligraphy, drawing and letter cutting and most sculptural activities. She does a variety of tailored workshops as and when requested.
B.A. ( Hons ) Fine Art. Painting. Gloucestershire College of Art and Design
Art Teacher's Certificate. Leeds Polytechnic.
Her statement
I started life as a painter but moved to 3-D as soon as I left college in 1976.
My ideas have evolved in sculpture from the landscape of the hills and valleys in which we live.
I have used the elements of landscape in my early work and included, earth, sand, candles, plants and words.
Gradually the landscapes in stone became bowl forms in which to put my ideas and I call them CONCEPTACLES, an idea in a receptacle; an idea for creative reproduction.
Gradually the trees disappeared, and the ideas within the bowls were put into words, hence my interest in calligraphy, so that I could design my own lettering.
The bowls became vessels and the ideas more philosophical and symbolic, rather than about place and environment.
My recurrent themes are the sanctity of everyday life; the circle as the most sacred of shapes; water and as Carl Gustav Jung has said for the purpose of art
'To find again the deepest springs of life'.
In the maturity of an artist, there is freedom, as there was in childhood. The bit in the middle is learning, finding the way, making mistakes, acquiring skills and being guided by the reality check. I enjoy having a wide skill base so that my ideas can be expressed in whatever means seems appropriate.
Artists have freedom.
Solo exhibition at Cirencester Museum and Art Gallery 2011
