Pam Ibbotson
Pam Ibbotson studied painting at Sheffield, graduating in 1987 with a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art. In 1989 she received the Major Award at the Manchester Academy of Fine Art Open Exhibition and was elected a member the same year. She has also received the Manchester Academy Runner Up Award, the National Westminster Bank Award and a Production and New Work Award from the Arts Council. She has exhibited widely, including the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition, Bonhams, London 'Painting Today' and the Quaker Gallery, London (solo). Her work has been acclaimed by the Guardian, where it was compared to 'Van Gogh's almost visionary sense of the underlying rhythms of nature' Robert Clark Artist's statement My paintings gain their inspiration from the landscape of the Derbyshire Peak District. Although colours, textures and forms inherent in the landscape are an important factor, my work tends to be suggestive of natural form, rather than depictive. As such, it can be open to varying interpretation and so is, I feel, stimulating to the imagination. The landscape acts as a catalyst for the expression of what I have described as an 'inner painted world'.