Pamela Barnett was born in 1959 in Charleston, West
Virginia. Since childhood, art has played an important
role throughout her life through her love of sketching,
painting and creating. She graduated from the Art
Institute of Pittsburgh where she studied traditional
forms of painting, life drawing and commercial art.
Pam moved to Nashville in 1980 and worked in the
advertising community as a designer and art director.
She married John Robert Padgett in 1985 and returned
to fine arts in 1995 when she began to study with
Nashville artist Michael Shane Neal. She has also
studied with fellow Nashville artists Paula Frisby
and Dawn Whitelaw and has attended plein air workshops
with Ken Auster, Matt Smith and a number of nationally
known painters.
A member of the Chestnut Group and Cumberland Painters
Society, groups of painters from Franklin, Tennessee,
she appreciates the elements of painting outside
and directly from life. She is inspired by the
painterly traditional styles of Peter Paul Rubens,
turn of
the century artists Joaquin Sorolia, John Singer
Sargent and Cecilia Beaux. Pam enjoys painting
the still life and landscape.
Pam Padgett is the mother of two children, daughter
Kelsey and son Will. She also enjoys gardening,
travel and music. |
