Meet Pami Ciliax-Guthrie

Today we’d like to introduce you to Pami Ciliax-Guthrie.

Every artist has a unique story. Can you briefly walk us through yours?
Painting is my voice and the creative process is my journey. If one has the choice, gift and ability and just one lifetime one should grow in love. Loving is helping others.

American born Artist. Grew up in the Southeast where the air holds the light and Southwest where the light is defined by shadow.

I have been challenged by intellectual aesthetics since a child. Playing in imagination, mark making in the sandbox, finger drawing with water from a puddle on the hot concrete, chalk drawings at night on the driveway when the streetlight at the end of the drive cast shadows from the tree branches creating a new landscape (wearing roller skates with metal wheels – the sound adding to the performance art) and the crayon colors on the Mulberry tree trunk were textured masterpieces. All disappearing with the elements and time.

I feel everything mimics nature and is repeated form. I have lived in the desert and on a mountaintop and asked many questions. My story continues to unfold.

Please tell us about your art.
My genre is large abstract expressionism and small whimsical folklore colloquial storytelling. I paint with acrylic and oil. My palette has been described as the colors one expects to see in heaven. My visual attention to subtle detail and the energy that surrounds the essence of nature all represent an esoteric composition. Brush, wavering line, tertiary color, monochromatic minimalism and blended paint.

I am continually and curiously inspired by classic subjects and European landscapes. Collectors have found my ethereal paintings to inspire and have healing properties. I feel blessed to participate in what I consider the co-creation of spirit. Often, I have painted an angel or picture that I don’t completely understand. At a show, the person whom it was painted for walks up picks it up and explains, often with tearful emotion how this painting speaks to them, heals them, reminds them…I feel blessed to be an instrument of peace.

The picture that Voyage Atl posted on Instagram is one of these paintings. A family who adopted a disabled young girl asked me to paint a picture where she is dancing in a field of flowers and include the quote “He Will Make All Things New Again”. This painting was a joy to paint and a Hallelujah moment!

Other objects of art include mixed media “Mother and Child”, “Measured for Wings”, “Hearts of Gold”, “Traveling Altars” and Paris Altar Bowls.

I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree Stephens College in Columbia, MO and continued my studies in the arts at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. In 2007 I relocated to Atlanta, GA.
My paintings have found their way into collections around the globe and into the homes of well know celebrities, curators and professional athletes. I am pleased to be hanging with Rodin, Renoir, Degas and most recently included with folk artist’s Howard Finster, R.A. Miller and Mose Tolliver.

Choosing a creative or artistic path comes with many financial challenges. Any advice for those struggling to focus on their artwork due to financial concerns?
Remember the creative process is in most activity.
Folk artists painted/drew/created on/with anything they could find.
Simplify.
Process not result.
Choosing the artistic path has always and will always have financial challenges.
Just paint, create, use your imagination and believe. Do it for “a living” if not for income.

How or where can people see your work? How can people support your work?
Complete Information on exhibitions past and present, shows and galleries

www.artgratitude.com
pamic.etsy.com
@pamiciliaxguthrieart
Facebook: Pami M Ciliax-Guthrie

2018 Invited artist, Trinity Spotlight On Art, Atlanta, GA
2017 Whimsical Wares, East Cobb, GA
2017 Invited artist Marist Holiday Market, Atlanta, GA
2017 Pottery Barn Lenox Sq., Live Painting & Pop Up Shop Atlanta, GA
2017 Invited artist, Wesleyan Artist Market, Peachtree Corners, GA
2017 Invited artist, Trinity Spotlight On Art, Atlanta, GA
2016 Pottery Barn Lenox Sq., December Pop Up Shop Atlanta, GA
2016 Showcased Pottery Barn Lenox Square, Atlanta, GA
2016 Pottery Barn September Pop Up Shop, Lenox Square, Atlanta, GA
2016 St. Ives Country Club, Charity Guild, Johns Creek, GA
2016 Now Showing: Cowbells and Snakeskin, Woodland Park, CO& CaveCreek, AZ
2016 Sido Gallery, Clarkesville, GA
2016 Invited artist, Art In the Sq., Gainesville, GA, received Best Of Show Award
2016 Invited artist, Alpharetta Arts Festival, Alpharetta, GA
2016 Invited artist, Dunwoody Village Art Festival, Dunwoody, GA
2016 Not Your Run of the Mill, Hoschton, GA, Third Place Landscape
2016 Invited artist, Folk to Fine, Commerce, GA
2016 Invited artist, Trinity Spotlight On Art, Atlanta, GA
2016 Clay Pigeon, Sedona, AZ
2015-16 Favorite Clothing & Gifts, Sedona, AZ
2015 Invited artist, Party, Huntsville, AL
2015-17 Village Exchange 1 Year Anniversary and Art Stroll, Knoxville, TN
2015-17 Invited artist, Wild Oats and Billy Goats, Decatur, GA
2015&16 Invited artist, Johns Creek Art Festival, Johns Creek, GA
2015&16&17 Juried artist, Marist, Atlanta GA
2015&16 Juried, Crabapple Art Festival, Milton, GA
2015 22 Annual Folk Fest, Atlanta, GA

Contact Info:

• Website: www.artgratitude.com
• Email: pamic@ymail.com
• Instagram: @pamiciliaxguthrieart
• Facebook: Pami M Ciliax-Guthrie

Image Credit:
Steve and Pami

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