Pamela Davis’ Statement

Designing and weaving tapestries is my full-time work. The technical and artistic skills demanded by my craft take years to develop. My designs are mystical, bold, geometric, often whimsical, with repetitive patterns and symbols. Color is important to my work and I achieve the richness in color by hand dying my wool yarn. My inspiration comes from nature and the use of symbols to demonstrate a connection with the ancestors. I weave large and small format tapestries. Currently I am expanding my small format tapestries to include metal-smithing and bead weaving.

Pamela Davis’s Biography

As a tapestry weaver my hands move through the yarns as if I am playing with the wind and telling a tale that takes me back in time. Feeling connected to my ancestors and nature are essential in my work. My ancestors have lived in North America since 1640, in the New England and Appalachian Regions in the Eastern United States. They immigrated to the United States from England, Wales and Scotland. I come from generations of artists and craft people. As a child I watched my elders and family creating decorative cut work on linen, tailoring for the local townspeople, knitting, crocheting, sewing, embroidering, drawing, playing the saxophone and clarinet during the Big Band Era, and entertain as country and folk singers. It is in the weaving of tapestries that I feel the presence of my ancestors and the rhythm of nature.

Currently my art is my full time work and I teach tapestry weaving. I am honored to have studied with several master weavers in the United States and Internationally. My prior lives include management and sales careers in fashion accessories and as a science consultant in water resources science.