Born in 1946 in Rural Retreat, Virginia, Pamela Stafford
has won numerous awards & scholarships for her work
including 1st Place in the Florida Arts Society, the Austin
Abbey Foundation Mural Award, and honors from the Cork
Gallery, Andre Wang Arts School, and the National Academy
School of Design. She began designing and painting in high
school and traveled the world as a model in the years
following. In 1976, she came to New York and continued a
successful design career under her own label, Stafford of
New York.
In 1994, Pamela suddenly realized that she needed to return
to art and began drawing, sculpting and painting from
morning till night at the Art Students' League and the
National Academy. Pamela was asked in 1999 to create an
instructional video on portraiture, entitled "How to Paint
the Portrait", and went on to paint at the Ecole des Baux
Arts in Paris as well as studying Byzantine icons at the
Centre d'Etude Russes Saint-George (Center for Russian
Icons) in Maudon, France. She now holds a three-year
certificate at the National Academy.
Since 2001, Pamela has worked as a private portraiture
& landscape instructor and has continued to offer
commissioned portraiture and restoration.