Jurors of Selection: Pamela Reese and Kathy Anderson

Pamela Reese

Art is my passion, it’s who I am. I grew up in Connecticut watching my artist/sign painter mother paint seascapes, cityscapes, portraits, and also signs for the Ritz Ballroom. I would sit by her, drawing my own version of her scene.  

After receiving a BA in Fine Arts, I continued studying at the School of Visual Arts, the Silvermine School of Art, and at workshops with various acclaimed artists. Having studied graphic design and architectural engineering, I was also an architectural illustrator for thirty-five years. 

I continuously delight in painting landscapes or ramble-scapes – whether NYC cobblestones, country lanes, or sheep paths  – all of which depict my desire to hit the road for new vistas. Painting en plein air brings a compelling immediacy to the work, painting the local color with no time to chase the light. My oils and pastels also include still life, interiors and figurative paintings.

I am a member of Putney Painters, Vermont, started by Richard Schmid, a painting group of dedicated New England artists. We meet several times a month with a model, still life or painting en plein air. This group inspires my creativity and stimulates great art discussions…with some dancing thrown in.

Recent Awards
Plein Air Salon Online Aug/Sept – Best Landscape Award
Salmagundi Club 135th Members Exhibition
Art Spirit Foundation Gold Medal Award – Excellence in Pastel
“Black Canyon of the Gunnison” – Western Art Collector Magazine honoring the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service

Affiliations
Salmagundi Art Club – New York
Oil Painters of America
Connecticut Pastel Society
Pastel Society of Colorado
Lyme Art Association, CT
Putney Painters, VT
Audubon Artists

We moved to Redding in 1985, and I first entered the Mark Twain Library Art Show in 1987. I began helping on delivery day in 1989, and then in 1990 was asked to lead the Artists and Exhibition Committee. Those were the days of handwriting artists’ prospectus and mailing it via USPS. I even recruited my children to collate and stuff the envelopes.

Kathy Anderson

Kathy Anderson is best known for her unique interpretation of flowers and gardens, and intimate scenes of landscape. Working in oils and painting mostly from life, her focus is on a strong design and movement in the painting, keeping the subject as naturally as you would find it. Her style is representational, but goes a step further into reality, often depicting weeds in the garden, flowers past their prime, etc.

Kathy is included in many prestigious private collections, is a master signature member of Oil Painters of America, an artist member of the Salmagundi Club NY, and is in the permanent collection of the National Arts Club, NYC. She teaches workshops in the US and abroad and has three popular videos. 

She was lucky to be able to call as personal friends two of our greatest contemporary artists– Richard Schmid and Everett Raymond Kinstler, both sadly deceased. She has spent countless years with each of them, soaking up their wisdom and life stories. 

“I see paintings everywhere – every flower, rock, tree, dapple of light, sparkling waterfall – there’s no end to subject matter for an artist when your eyes are always open.”

Recent Awards
2022 Best in Show – Salmagundi Club Landscape Show
2021 Gold Medal – Masters Division Oil Painters of America Salon Show
2021 Best Floral – Plein Air Magazine Salon Show
2021 Art Focus, Hamilton, MT, Art in Bloom – Best in Show
2020 Salmagundi Club, Peter Helch Award, Thumb Box Show
2019 Salmagundi Club, Sylvia Maria Glesmann Floral Award 2nd Prize
2019 Second Place, Masters Division, Virtuosos of OPA
2018 Salmagundi Club, 2018 Fall Auction, Edwin H. Blashfield Award
2018 Oil Painters of America National Exhibition – Donors’ Award of Excellence
2018 Fine Art Connoisseur Award of Excellence – Windows to the Divine Show
2018 Third Place – National Arts Club Exhibiting Artist Member Show
2017 President’s Award – National Arts Club Exhibiting Artist Member Show
2017 1st Place Still Life – Salmagundi Club, Still Life in Color Show 

Publications
Art of the West – Nov/Dec 2021, Feature Article
Southwest Art Magazine – August 2017
Pratique des Arts – Summer 2016 – six page article
Plein Air Magazine – May/June 2014

Selected Exhibitions
Gallery 1261, Three-person show with Susan Lyon & Scott Burdick
Turner Fine Art “While we Were Still…Flowers Bloomed,” Jackson, WY
American Masters Invitational, Salmagundi Club, NY
Laumeister Art Center, Bennington, VT – Tribute to Richard Schmid Show, Sept. 2018
Legacy Gallery, Bozeman, MT – August 2017, two-person Show
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK – 2015
Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ,  Two person show, Feb.2015
St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA – three-person show with Richard Schmid & Nancy Guzik, Nov. 2014