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Ex - local teacher Pam Renhard goes solo to show her work at the New Atrium Gallery at the Blakenall Village Centre. Pam born and brought up locally, attending Harden Junior school where she entered, and won her first and only painting competition at the age of ten. This was a view across the lea looking onto the front of Goscote Hospital. Following primary school teacher training in Sheffield, Pam returned to Walsall where she thoroughly enjoyed teaching at the North Walsall Junior School and followed by Priory Primary School in Leamore. Pam said: "Art has always been my main interest and it was one of the subjects for which I had a responsibility during my teaching career. I always tried to encourage an enjoyment of art for all my pupils, allowing them to experience and experiment with as many art mediums as possible". Pam took early retirement from teaching in 2002 due to ill health, this has allowed her to fulfil a promise to herself, to allow time to attempt water colour painting. Pam, encouraged, by her family, joined an art class at the Hawbush Centre where she finds painting alongside like-minded friends very motivating. Pam is a member of the Walsall Society for Artists and has had paintings accepted for their past three Christmas exhibitions at Walsall Art Gallery. Pam works mainly from photographs, sometimes using the direct image or digitally enhancing or manipulating them before setting to work with the paint. Pam said; "I have never consciously worked to themes, I just paint what pleases me, seeing each image as a fresh challenge. I have recently set myself a further challenge, that of using acrylics and I am enjoying the challenges that the medium offers". "My last few paintings are evident of a different ways of working. I have poured and splashed paint on to the paper or canvas to create a background on which to work. I’ve masked out shapes created by the flow of the paint before pouring again or painted into the shapes that I see". Pam Renhards show is at the Blakenall Village Centre from Friday 16th August until 22nd September If you are interested in showing your work please contact Andy Bradley or Sally Gamston on 01922 712858. Ends..... Photo opportunities are on Monday 13th August 10.00 am in the New Atrium Gallery at the Blakenall Village Centre, Thames Road, Blakenall, Walsall. Journalists are welcome to attend the Private View that will take place on Thursday 15th August, 5.00pm until 7.00pm. (Please let either Sally or Andy know that you can come along). For more information about Walsall's New Deal for Communities initiative please contact Andy Bradley on 01922 712858. E mail: bradleya@walsall.gov.uk Walsall's New Deal for Communities is a regeneration initiative working in the areas of Blakenall, Bloxwich and Leamore. The initiative received a £52 million Government grant from the Department for Communities and Local Government (formerly the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) to be spent on sustainable regeneration spread over a ten year period that commenced 2001. |
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