Pamela Leith
ARTIST STATEMENT
“THERE IS NOTHING PERMANENT EXCEPT CHANGE”
- Heraclitus
Pamela’s art primarily involves carefully embroidering on repurposed vintage linens. These linens evolve from their original ornate decorative use to become a non-traditional part of the fabric of today’s consciousness. Pamela’s other sources of inspiration are flax, once a living plant, and roving, once the sheep’s hair, to become 3-dimensional forms.
“TIME CHANGES THE WAY YOU PERCEIVE THE WORLD”
- Anonymous
ARTIST BIO
Growing up in a family of artist and seamstresses, Pamela’s interest leaned toward textiles at an early age. She earned a Bachelor of Arts and has taken continuing education in the field, including several years of Fiber Sculpture classes taught be the esteemed professor Carol Beadle.
Pamela has been active in three Bay Area Fiber groups over the last 25 years and has shown her work from Maine to California. In her retirement, she enjoys traveling and living in Mill Valley and Long Beach, CA.
Delta a Fair Hand? : Vintage Tablecloth, Embroidery, 29” x 29” x 0.5”
The Artist Before Us: Cave drawings from Lascaux Cave, “Guernica” Pablo Picasso, “Barking Dogs” by Keith Hearing, vintage tablecloth, embroidery, leather, poster board, 22” x 25” x 1”
Gold Rush: flax, indigo dye, gold embroidery, 9” x 9” x 4” each
Border (bor/der)n; To Keep In or Keep Out: Vintage tablecloth, embroidery, 37” x 37” x 0.5”
Dirty Laundry? Who has the highest Incarceration rate? America: vintage napkins/ tablecloths, embroidery, tin plates, 12” x 12” x 1” per plate
Dirty Laundry? Who has the highest incarceration rate? America: vintage napkin/ tablecloth, embroidery, tin plates, table, 27” x 64” X 26”
Flight: flax, 15” x 15” 1.5”
Holey Bible: vintage linen, embroidery (“Thou shalt not kill unless for My God”), bullet shells, bible, stand, 20" x 22" x 11”
Sold
They Gave Their Lives: flag, embroidery, silkscreen, 24” x 34” x 1”
Wedding Present: Pillow cases, embroidery, box tissue, ribbon, 14” x 19” x 3”