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| About the Artist |  |
| Pamela Silin-Palmer started creating art when she was a child. For Pamela, nature is the source of all design and beauty. “I look at relationships between objects, light and shadow and am inspired to play games with that visual information. I am enabled by a photographic memory, so I can visualize my paintings before they are painted. I mix images and effects in my mind and then paint them as I imagine them.” | | | While living in Florence, Pamela was entranced by the artists of the Italian Renaissance. She realized that everything man-made, whether decorative or utilitarian, should be an art form, that decorative art was just as important to the overall quality of life as fine art. Pamela was also influenced by the pattern-on-pattern technique of late medieval Tapestry; the equivalent patterning found in Persian and Indian art; the 17th century Dutch still-life painters, who focused on the intricate details of insects, flowers and animals emerging from a shadowed dark background; the 19th century English illustrators and the Victorian Romantic painters such as Lord Leighton and Alma-Tadema. |  | Pamela believes that her work reflects her deep appreciation for these painters and styles. Pamela founded the Faunus Studio of Decorative Art with partner, Karen Kariya, in 1976. Their one-of-a-kind painted furniture, murals, ceramic ware, backdrops, rugs and fabrics have been represented by the top showrooms in the interior design industry in every major city in the United States. Pamela has designed a signature line of fantasy furniture for Neiman-Marcus and has been featured in their Christmas catalogue. She has created hand-made Renaissance animal dolls for two consecutive Christmas displays for Bergdorf-Goodman, 5th Avenue. | | Pamela has created two picture books for Random House, Bunny and the Beast and Sleeping Bunny. Recently Leanin’ Tree released fifty greeting cards featuring images from Pamela’s book illustrations as well as from images under Pamela’s trademark brand, “Rabbits of the Rainbow.” Pamela lives in Northern California with her husband and business partner, Patrick Palmer. She has four grown daughters and a very busy bull terrier named Jack. | Contact Pamela Silin-Palmer  
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