About
My entire life has been dedicated to art. As a painter, educator, and advocate, I strive to create art that feeds the soul, tells a story and always leaves you with something new to enjoy or discover.
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You can see my work displayed at the following galleries: Turning Art, Boston, MA; and Wren Gallery, Bethlehem, NH.
Artist’s Statement
As a musician strives for a variety of vibrations in sound, my goal is creating visual color vibrations. I greatly admire the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky in profession and thought. Kandinsky said. “Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts upon every part of the human body.”
I explore different subject matter in my paintings with a need to always challenge myself with complex compositions and color combinations.
Pamela R. Tarbell
Education
Rhode Island School of Design BFA
Participated in the United States Art Embassy Program
Solo Exhibit:
Two Villages Art Society, Hopkinton, NH, 2025
The Blue Door, York, ME, 2025
McLane Center, NH Audubon, Concord, NH 2025
Dublin Community Center-North Gallery, Dublin, NH 2025
Mass Audubon, Habitat Educational Center, Belmont, MA 2024
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Boston, MA 2023
Jaffrey Civic Center, Jaffrey, NH 2023
Wren Gallery, Bethlehem, NH 2007 & 2021
Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA 2019
E.N. Wennberg Gallery, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH 2016
Merrimack College, North Andover, MA 2018
Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital, Lebanon, NH, 2016
Mill Brook Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Concord, NH 2004, 2011
Lyceum Gallery, Derryfield School, Manchester, NH 1994, 2009
Robert Larsen Gallery, Sulloway & Hollis, Concord, NH 2006
Conant Art Gallery, Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA 2006
Galletly Gallery, New Hampton School, New Hampton, NH 2005
Kimball-Jenkins Estate, Concord, NH 1987, 1994
Geissler Gallery, Stoneleigh-Burnham School, Greenfield, MA 1989
Group Shows:
2025:
“Abstraction” National Juried, Art Center Dover, Dover, NH
“Naturally New England” Sunapee Harbor, NH
“Art Center Dover Member” Exhibit, Dover, NH
“Members Summer Exhibit” Two Villages Art Society, Contoocook, NH
“Regional Juried Art Exhibit, Library Art Center, Newport, NH
“Paper Stories” Juried, Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA
“Rock. Paper. Scissors” National Juried Exhibit, Toby Sisson, Juror, Bristol, RI
“Rock the House” Art Center Dover, Members Juried Exhibit, Dover, NH
2024:
Bayview Artisan Gallery, Meredith, NH
New England Pollinators, Till Wave Gallery, Watertown, MA
“Fall Show” The Glimpse Gallery, Concord, NH
“Paper Trail” Juried NH Art Association, Portsmouth, NH
“Naturally New England” Center for the Arts Juried Show, Sunapee, NH
“One” Members Exhibit, Arts Worcester, MA
2023:
Fitchburg Art Museum Regional Juried Exhibit. Fitchburg, MA
“We’ve been around Forever” Juried Exhibit at the Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
“We are not Women, we are Gods” Juried-Multicultural Arts Center, East Cambridge, MA
National Association of Women Arts-MA Chapter
“The Crow Show” National Juried Exhibit, The Studio Door Gallery; Juror: Marie McGhee, Director of the Arizona-Sonoma Desert Museum of Art Institute; San Diego, CA
“Echo/Reflections II” Wren Gallery, Bethlehem, NH
The Healing Art Gallery, Monadnock Community Hospital, Peterborough, NH
2022:
“Magnifince of the Mundane”, Juror: Kurt Sundstrum, Senior Curator Currier Museum;
23rd Annual Joan L Dunfrey Exibit, New Hampshire Art Association, Portsmouth, NH
“So Big” Arts Worcester, Juried Members’ Exhibit, Juror: Nancy Burns, Associate Curator Worcester Art
Museum, Worcester, MA
Echo/Reflections, Matching paintings to quilts, Two Villages Gallery, Contoocook, NH
“Abstract Art: Contemporary Approach” Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA
“Contemporary/Abstraction Exhibit, Juror: Rebecca Proctor,The Art Center, Dover, NH
Hampton Iconic Art Fair, Juried, East Hampton, Long Island
“Trust the Process” John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse, Boston, National Association of Women Artists,
MA Chapter
“Connectivity,” National Juried Exhibit at the Attleboro Arts Museum; Juror: Craig Bogwood, Curator of the Art
Complex Museum, Duxbury
Library Arts Center-Regional Juried Art Exhibit, Newport, NH
2021:
“Nourishing the Senses,” NAWA-MA, Juror: Vladimir Zimakov, Gallery Director; The Wedeman Gallery,
Yamawaki Art & Cultural Center, Lassalle College, Newton, MA
“Changing Lives, Changing Future” Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, National Association of Women Artists
“Roddy Exhibition”, Concord Art Association; Concord, MA, Juried by Sam Adams, Curatorial Fellowship at the
deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum
“Art Forward,” Galatea Fine Arts; MA Chapter, National Association of Women Artists, Boston
“22nd Annual Joan l. Dunfey Open Exhibition” NH Artists Association; Juror: Mary Harding, Curator
“Tanden”, Invitational, Sprinkler Factory, Worcester, MA
Arts in Bloom 2021, Juror: Tatiana Filis, Hopkinton Arts Center, Hopkinton, MA
“Trios: A Balance of Three” Invitational, Sprinkler Factory, Worcester, MA
Womxn, Juried, National Association of Women Artists, MA Chapter, Marblehead Art Association,
Hooper House, Marblehead, MA
An Artist’s Vision, Juried, Cape Cod Center for the Arts, Barnstable, MA
2020:
“Inspirational Journey,” National Association of Women Artists, SC Chapter, Charleston, SC
National Association of Women Artists, Annual Membership Exhibit, online
New Hampshire Business for the Arts, event at Lavalee Brensinger Architects, with Artist Pamela
“SHE/HE” Juried, Atlantic Wharf Gallery. Boston, National Association of Women Artists-MA Chapter
“A Woman’s Point of View”, WCA-NH, Vynn Art Gallery, Meredith, NH
“Tree & Twig” Invitational Exhibit at the Twiggs Gallery, Boscawen, NH
Annual Juried Exhibit, Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Juror; Steven Pennell, Pawtucket, RI
“Mirror Images” Juried, MA Chapter, National Association of Women Artists, King Hooper House,
Marblehead, MA
2019:
“HUM-MAN-IZE”, National Association of Women Artists-MA Chapter, John Joseph Moakley U. S
Courthouse, Boston, MA
“Cowboys Up” Juried Exhibit, Liberty Art Center, Ureka, CA
“Paper West” Juried by Judith Brodsky, at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2018:
“Day Dreaming” Juried Exhibit, National Association of Women Artists, Coral Springs, FL
“Natural Force” Trustman Art Gallery, Juried Exhibit by the National Association of Women Artists-
MA Chapter, Simmons College, Boston, MA
“Radar-Act I”, Juror: David Thomson & Tameka Eastman-Coburn, Artlery160 Gallery, MA Chapter of
the National Association of Women Artists, Boston, MA
“‘Radar-Act II”, Harrison-Lobdell Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
“A Second Look” Women Caucus of NH, Kimball Jenkins School of Art
2017:
“Open Horizons”, National Juried Exhibit, Art & Design Gallery of County College of Morris, Randolph,
NJ, in conjunction with the National Association of Women Artists
“Figuratively Speaking”, Invitational Exhibit, Curated by Mike Howat, Kimball Jenkins Estate,
Concord, NH
13 Moons: An Abenaki Child’s Year; Mosaic: Exploring our Multicultural Neighbors, Children’s
Museum, Dover, NH
MA-Chapter of the National Association of Women Artists, Endicott College, Beverly, MA
Invitational Group Exhibit, Jaffray Civic Center, NH
*For a longer list of group exhibitions please contact the artist.
Press and Publications
The Art of the Saltwater by The Green Room 831, A Coffee Table Book, 2025
Concord Monitor, Concord, NH 2025
Dublin Community Center by David Allen, Monadnock Legar, 2025
“Around Concord” Magazine, article by Laura Pope, 2008 & 2018
“Eleven NH Women Artists to Keep Your Eye On,” NH Magazine, 2017
Art New England Review by David Raymond, 2016
NH Tourism: Film/Video, one of three artists selected for promoting art in “Visit NH,” 2015
“The Force of Nature” WCA-NH Exhibit Book, Plymouth, NH, 2015
“Tell Me a Story” WCA-NH Exhibit Book, Jaffrey, NH, 2015
Manchester Union Leader, Manchester, NH, 2009
Artscope Magazine, Boston, MA, 2009
Corporate and Private Collections:
Senior Living, Rosendale, MA (3 paintings)
Foxfire Management Company, Concord, NH
Gallagher, Callahan, & Gartrell Law Firm, Concord, NH
Payson Cancer Center, Concord, Hospital, Concord, NH
Sulloway & Hollis Law Firm, Concord, NH
Tomie dePaola, New London, NH
Commissioned Work:
Five Rivers Conservation, NH
Six large pastel drawings for NH Department of Health and Human Services, Brown Building
Managed by the NH Arts Council for Percent for the Arts Program
Five Rivers Conservation, Concord, NH
YMCA, Concord, NH
Newfield-Warren, Inc., Exeter, NH
Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell Law Firm, Concord, NH
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forest, Concord, NH
Gallery Representation:
Art 3, Manchester, NH
The Blue Door Gallery, York, Maine 2025-
The Blue Raven Gallery, Rockland, Maine
Bayview Artisans Gallery, Meredith, NH 2024-
Glimpse Gallery, Concord, NH 2024-
Turning Art, Boston, MA, 2020-
Personal Awards:
“Outstanding Women in Business” Award, NH Business Review, 2015
“Fascinating Individual” Award, Concord Community TV, Concord, NH 2014