PAMELA RHODES

APRIL ARTIST

Pamela Rhodes…

…is the founder, director and lead instructor of ARTroads.  She believes that everyone is capable of seeing the world that surrounds us in a deeper way and also capable of transposing that vision onto paper and canvas.

Pamela graduated with a business degree, majoring in advertising.  She has pursued her own art education through numerous classes at San Francisco State, The Academy of Sciences, and under the tutelage of professional artists.  She has worked as a technical illustrator and directed a corporate audio-visual department. 

While pursuing other careers as an attorney and financial planner, she managed to continue her artistic efforts emphasizing portraits of people and places.  Her graphite, colored pencil and watercolor work are owned by clients throughout the US, Mexico, England and Italy.

Pamela has taught drawing and watercolor classes for the YWCA, Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, Pathways for Kids, Seven Tepees Youth Center and San Francisco Women Artists.  She offers her signature class "Learning to Draw so You can Paint" in San Francisco, the Yucatan and as an essential part of the “Ten Days in Tuscany” art workshop each autumn.

Memberships include the California Watercolor Association, Sunday Afternoon Watercolor Society, and the San Francisco Women Artists where she served as Vice President and Director of Development for several years.  She organized and marketed educational seminars for the artist members collaborating with California Lawyers for the Arts.  Her downtown financial planning office maintains an on-site, art gallery; “Spare Change Artist Space”, hosting numerous educational programs and parallel art shows focusing on financial topics important to artists and us all.

Pamela is a patient and prepared instructor.  She provides the tools and techniques that allow each student to develop their drawing and painting skills.  She is committed to the goal of having each of us really see all that surrounds us and drawing and painting those treasures that we see.  She believes that the skill of seeing, really seeing, combined with the practice of drawing, results in a wondrous excitement of personal expression.

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