Artist tells her nature message in her works
AWARD-WINNING north Queensland painter Pam Schultz has made her mark capturing the tireless efforts of environmental conservationists.
Schultz returned to painting full-time after completing a PhD in Environmental Science, throwing her love of the environment into her work.
“My upbringing played an important part in my development as an artist and later scientist,” she said.
“On holidays, our family was taken to wild places that were largely undeveloped.
Artists of the North exhibition, Cairns, and a highly commended was awarded to her at the recent 2020 Cairns Art Society Annual Show.
As an environmental scientist, Schultz also works with Dr Pierce and other volunteers on bird surveys and monitoring, trying to work out the state and range of habitats and why species are increasing or diminishing, such as the threatened Gouldian and Whitebellied Crimson Finches.
Schultz has recently received acknowledgment for her work by being selected in prestigious art prize exhibitions in Queensland such as The Holmes Art Prize for Excellence
in Realistic Australian Bird Art 2019 and the Stanthorpe Portrait Prize 2018.
Pam said she hopes to be selected in other national art prizes for her portraits of conservation ecologists.
“It is a good way to promote the work that these people do for the natural environment and which is little known or perhaps forgotten outside their circle of friends and colleagues,” she said.
Pam’s work can be found online at pamschultzgallery.com, bluethumb.com.au/ pam-schultz/ or by visiting Kuranda Arts Cooperative in Kuranda (kurandaartscoop.com).
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