Pamela Root

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Pamela Root

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Pamela Root

“I have a fine eye for composition and finding the right light in all of the images that I shoot. This comes from years of being involved in the commercial interior design trade and from my painting background with watercolors. I tend to gravitate toward the small details in every shot but I love to travel and see the big picture too.


Pamela Root, an Arizona resident since 1980, earned her AAS Interior Design degree from Phoenix College in 1989. Pam worked in commercial interior design for 18 years ending with Best Western International Headquarters as a Property Transition Design Consultant. 

2006-2017 Fine Art Photographer and Watercolorist


Pamela has been studying and painting watercolors, including Chinese style painting with sumi ink on rice paper, since 2007. Her art reflects her newfound immersion into nature and the enjoyment of spontaneous art. Currently her watercolors and single focal point photography are displayed for sale at Esprit Decor Gallery. 


Juried Art Exhibits: Herberger Theater Center Art Gallery for five juried shows from 2011-2015 and twice at the University Club in Phoenix. She has exhibited with the Arizona Watercolor Association (AWA) and Contemporary Watercolorists of Arizona (CWA) at the Phoenix Burton Barr Library. Her large scale watercolor paintings have been accepted in to the Glendale Annual Juried Fine Arts Competition every year since 2012. WFWS 41st Annual Exhibition in Colorado, June 2016 and Tubac Center for the Arts Exhibit AZ Aqueous XXXI in 2017.


Honors and Awards: Guest Curator for Photography Exhibit at the University Club in Phoenix for the Herberger Theater Art Gallery. 1st and 4th place with www.az.gov at the Arizona State Fair in Sept. 2014, received a plaque for large color photographic prints and honorable mentions for advanced photography and painting. Pamela has been selected and published in “Friday Fotos” blog for the Arizona Highways Magazine on Facebook in 2012 and 2013. Pamela currently has her original photography of Arizona installed in all of the guest rooms and lobby at the remodeled Red Lion Inn & Suites in Tempe, Arizona. Pamela Root was the purchasing agent and co-photographer with Pat Kofahl for this 2013 remodeling project. Pamela volunteers her time with AWA and is currently an AWA Board Member and Chairman of CWA. She is currently a 2017 workshop instructor for Shemer Art Center for Marbling with ink on Rice Paper.

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