The art of

Pamela Derry NS (1932 - 2002)

Pamela Derry was born in Welwyn Garden City and lived in a beautiful thatched cottage in a rural area of Dorset. She was a frequent visitor to the Cotswolds and often stayed near Longborough and Winchcombe where the surrounding landscape provided the inspiration for some of her later work.

She very much enjoyed walking and this pastime took her around Dorset, the Cotswolds, Exmoor and beyond, enabling her to sketch and to get as close to nature as possible. The English countryside was the source for her work and Pamela was particularly skilful at capturing the light and shade of dappled sunlight. She had a great feeling for the link between poetry, music and painting and always had music playing while she worked.

Pamela worked exclusively in oils and all her work was done with the palette knife. Having started painting professionally at the age of 28 she exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Society of British Artists, Society of Women Artists, Paris Salon and the New English Art Club. Pamela’s work is also in the permanent collection of the Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth.

Pamela has held many successful exhibitions in galleries throughout the country. Her first one-woman show was held over thirty years ago in Wold Galleries and her work is in private collections in countries including Holland, Austria, Japan, Australia and the USA.

In 2000 she participated in an exhibition held in Manhattan, New York. The same year saw the publication of a set of eight new greetings cards and a limited edition print ‘A New Dawn’ to celebrate the Millennium. Her family has published further limited edition prints since her death in July 2002 and a retrospective exhibition was held to celebrate her lifetime of painting at Wold Galleries in the Cotswolds in May 2003.

Wold Galleries The Old Saddlery, 3a Oxford St, Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 0LA