Pamela Summers attended the Pretoria Art School of the College for Advanced Technology in Pretoria, South Africa, the University of Texas at Arlington and Tarrant County College in Ft. Worth, Texas.

After making the decision in art school to become a full time ceramic artist, Pamela developed a strong signature technique for her contemporary Polychrome ceramics that has given her both regional and national recognition.

Thirty years later, she decided to focus on her love of photography, one of her passions since high school. Transferring her sense of form and color composition from 3D to 2D has been a natural transition and is reflected in her photographs, which she describes as natural and nautical abstractions.

She shoots with a digital camera and uses the computer to digitally abstract her photographs. Much of her work incorporates images reflecting her love of sailing and the sea.

Her work has been shown and sold in several juried exhibitions.

Pamela owns and operates Cliff House Studio and Gallery in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband and dog.


Selected Exhibitions;

2006 March - "Texas Biannual" Exhibition. Fort Worth Committee Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas

2004 October - "Polychrome" Exhibition. Goddard Center for the Preforming and Visual Arts, Ardmore, Oklahoma.

2005 - 1987 - An Artist's Christmas - invitational exhibition sponsored by First Texas Council of Camp Fire in Fort Worth, Texas (various awards including "Best of Show 2003, Best Abstract 2005" through the years)

2003 February - "Born of Fire" Exhibition and gallery talk. Cowley College, Wichita, Kansas,

2003 September - "The Webster Show" Angelina College, Currated by Wally Knight, Lufkin, Texas

2001 February - "Made in Texas" Midwestern State University

1999 December - "Contemporary Ceramics" William Campbell Contemporary Art Inc.

1998 October - "Texas Roots" Denton Arts Council The Center for the Visual Arts

1998 March - Exhibitions concurrent with NCECA conference, Fort Worth, Texas
"Ceramics" William Campbell Contemporary Art
"Fireworks: On and Off the Wall" Dallas Visual Art Center Dallas, Texas
"The Jerry Mahle Invitational" Texas Wesleyan University Fort Worth, Texas
"Texas Clay" Texas Pottery and Sculpture Guild, Fort Worth, Texas

1997 - Charter Members Show - Contemporary Art Center of Fort Worth

1996 March - Frontroom Gallery - Dallas, Texas

1995-1988 - Main Street Fine Arts Competition - Ft. Worth, Texas, April

1993, 1991, 1989 - International Gallery - San Diego, California, exhibitions

1990 - William Campbell Contemporary Art, Inc. - Ft. Worth, Texas, Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition

Pamela's works are in several private and public collections; including the Ruth Carter Stapleton Estate in North Carolina, Mr. and Mrs. John Justin of Fort Worth, the permanent collection of Price-Waterhouse of Fort Worth, Notio Ohga, C.E.O. Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, Pier One Imports, Fort Worth, Texas, Allegro Rug Weaving Company, Boulder Colorado, Charles Weatherby, Fort Worth, Texas and Santa Fe, New Mexico, First National Savings and Loan Association, Waco, Texas.

Pamela is active in many local and national art organizations. She is presently on the Exhibition and Advisory Panel for The Fort Worth Community Artist Center, a charter artist and past board member of The Contemporary Art Center of Fort Worth, and past president, as well as a founding member of the Texas Pottery and Sculpture Guild.
Pamela's work is represented by;

• William Campbell Contemporary Art Inc., Fort Worth, Texas
• Strings, Fort Worth, Texas
• The William and Joseph Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 13 Photography, Grand Junction, Colorado