earleywine

ABOUT

Location

Marstons Mills MA US

Born	6-23-55

Gender

Female

Member

Standard

Joined

May 2008

Interests

Bird Watching, Hiking, Bike Riding

A self-taught artist, Pam Earleywine finds inspiration in everyday surroundings. Her work, usually in charcoal or oil, captures a tender and often gritty immediacy that transcends her skills with realism to reveal the soul of the subject matterıas though the art is reacting with the viewer, rather than the other way around. So spirited is her work that one rancher responded to a drawing of his bull by calling it ıthat fence-jumping son of a bitch.ı

Pam Earleywine was born in 1955 and grew up in Western Oregon. Much of her youth was spent outdoors, camping and hunting arrowheads in the desert country of Eastern Oregon and Nevada. Her childhood experiences instigated a lifelong interest in American Western heritage, with its wonderfully varied landscapes and people. She spent a good portion of her adult years living and working on a small ranchıfondly referred to as the ıhomesteadııin Eastern Washington. She and her family owned and raised farm animals, including Quarter Horses, and were active in the local 4-H community. She also had the privilege of helping neighbors with branding days and rounding up cattle on horseback.

In the 1980s and ı90s, with backstage access to fairs, rodeos, and working ranches, much of her art was considered Western. During that time she was very active, showing yearly in Ellensburg, Washingtonıs annual Western Art Association National Art Show, as well as making appearances at the Oregon Trail show in Portland, Oregon, and the Omak Stampede, and winning numerous awards. She also exhibited in several one-woman shows and her work is included in many private and corporate collections. In the late 1990s, however, she was forced to take a hiatus from her art due to becoming a single parent.

Today finds Pam Earleywine living on the East Coast raising her youngest child. The last several years she has been employed full time as a secretary, spending long hours every night pouring over her art. Due to a recent lay off however, she has a small window of opportunity to try to make it as a full time artist - which she is taking every advantage of. She is a member of the Cape Cod Art Association and the Oil Painters of America, and in recent years her art has been accepted into many juried shows throughout the country.

Pam recently participated in the ıGlory of Horsesı mural project. Originating out of Texas, this large mural is comprised of 144 panels, each painted by individual artists with origins scattered through-out the world. With some of the best and most recognized equine artists contributing, this mural will tour the major global equestrian events with the purpose of raising funds to support groups that adopt retired work and race horses to prevent them from being sold for slaughter.

While some of her work retains that ıWesternı flare, her new setting has also inspired an ongoing study of East Coast light, water, and wildlife.

Her current shows and awards include the Cape Cod Art Associationıs National (2006 Best in Show) in addition to their monthly juried shows (including March 2008 Best Drawing, September 2008 Peoples Choice Award, and October 2008 Best in Show and Peoples Choice Award): The Pen & Brush Exhibition in New York City; The American Artist Professional League at the Salmagundi Club in New York (2007 Leila Gardin Sawyer Memorial Award); the Falmouth Art Association in Falmouth, MA (2006 Best Graphic); the Bosque Conservatory Art Council in Clifton Texas; The American Academy of Equine Art Show in Lexington Kentucky; and the Blanche Ames Museum in Easton, MA.

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