Pamela Meacher

ARTIST STATEMENT

“My call is deep my call is strong, it will not let me sleep too long.”

I had my first critique at the age of 3 when I finger-painted using coal dust and baby oil on my mother’s cream-coloured carpet. Why I painted again is a mystery.

Creativity in some form has followed me. I studied interior design at McGill University, as well as cultural anthropology, oil painting and grapho-analysis. As I am a mirror dyslexic, I have never written any of the final exams. Being dyslexic when the word had not yet been invented, I was, on a daily basis in high school, compared to my siblings. Thankfully I was accepted in the world of the arts but never judged. It is here where I grew and shone.

I helped to start the Richmond Hill Group of Artists and created their original logo. I became a founding director of the Canadian Wildflower Society and also created the original logo. I was also instrumental in beginning the Scugog Spring Studio Tour. Later I became the VP of the Scugog Council for the arts and VP of the public art acquisitions board. I also served as curator of their gallery. Over the years became deeply involved with the Mayor of Port Perry’s annual fundraising dinner for the arts and did all the décor for the annual Highland of Durham White Heather Ball. It was through my art that I was able to raise close to $30,000.00 for the Stephen Lewis Foundation.
Just before my daughter-in-law died, she asked if I would finish a book that I started five years earlier. To honour her I started a new and difficult journey and wrote, illustrated and self-published 3 award-winning books.