CCAG selects Pamela Brown as 'Artist of the Month'

The Cheyenne County Art Guild selected Pamela Brown as February Artist of the Month.

Brown is a CCAG member haling from Akron, Colo. She has lived in that area for more than 35 years.

She works primarily in watercolor and is best known for her soft and subtle paintings depicting the people and landscape of the high plains in eastern Colorado. Her work brings life and beauty to an area often thought of as barren and desolate.

Brown and her late husband lived on the plains about 35 miles southwest of Akron for 28 years where they raised their five children. She continued to paint and enter shows during this time.

In 2001, she opened Sand Creek Studio in Akron; a working studio and a gallery for her work. In 2005, she remarried and moved to town where she continues to paint, enter shows, and occasionally teaches art classes. Her husband builds custom frames and does all of the framing for her work.

Public commissioned paintings by Pamela Brown include the National Radial Engine exhibition in Akron, Colo., from 2004 through 2011, the 100-yea-old Washington County Courthouse in 2009, and a commemorative envelope for the Akron Post Office in 2007. She has had numerous private commissioned artworks as well.

Her award-winning artworks have been exhibited at the Western & Wildlife Show at Fort Robinson, Neb., the Western Spirit Show in Cheyenne, Wyo., the American Plains Artists Show in Texas, the New Mexico Small Paintings Show, the Catherine Lorillard Wolf Art Club's exhibition in New York City, a featured artist show at the Korshare Indian Museum in La Junta, Colo., as well as at the CCAG's Spring Members' Show in Sidney.

Brown's limited edition print of a watercolor titled "Pink Cactus" is on display through March 8 at the Sidney Public Library. Twelve other artworks of Brown's are displayed at the Cheyenne County Community Center. They are open to the public to view.

As Brown once said, "People think of the mountains in the western half of Colorado, but there is the other half of Colorado and it's beautiful, too!"