Design Spotlight: Pamela Jorgensen
July 17, 2012
Today’s Design Spotlight shines on Pamela Jorgensen of Pam J Arts who’s been a GCU artist since 2008 – an all around, professional artist who produces great cards!
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I grew up in a rural village in the beautiful New Forest in southern England. It was a wonderful inspiring place for an artistic soul with it’s great old oaks, abundant wild flowers, and creatures great and small. My favorite subjects were toadstools, mice and the little colorful birds that visited our garden. I started with colored pencils, then watercolors and in my teens started with oils, then I bought a ‘real’ camera and a whole new vista opened up.
I did not pursue a career in art, but it is a large part of who I am and it has been a part of my life all through the years. I came to America in my twenties, settled here and met my husband through a good friend. He worked in publishing and our first date was actually built around introducing me to an early version of Photoshop on a Mac computer. From this grew two loves, one with my husband and the other with the electronic graphic arts and photo editing.
PamJArts was established in 2008 out of a desire to use some of my art and floral photography in a venture that would allow me to work from home and be mom to our two young daughters. I found Greeting Card Universe and my adventures in creating cards began. Since those early days I have been on a fun and creative journey in photoshop, which has taken me from photo manipulation into creating my own graphics.
My card designs often originate from a funny line or design idea that pops into my head while doing mundane household chores, vacuuming is great creative thinking time. Listen up guys, if you are not doing the vacuuming for your wife you may be missing a great creative opportunity! With an idea in mind, off I go to create an image that conveys it. When I am not doing household chores for inspiration, I find the Wanted Card Requests on the GCU forum equally inspiring … and less physically taxing.
I love my more recent graphics cards, but the one card that has sold on a regular basis is one of my very early cards. It is a photograph of my daughters when they were much younger. It is not the best photographic quality but there is a simple vintage charm captured here, that combined with a simple verse seems to hit the spot with many folks and in a way, it is rather emblematic of my start here at Greeting Card Universe.
I do want to add a huge thank you to Greeting Card Universe for this opportunity and to all the artists I have come to know on the forum. You have all made this venture so much fun!
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Congrats on your Spotlight Pam! Loved reading about you and your featured card is truly heartwarming.
Hi, Pam, and congratulations!! You are a wonderful artist, and a special, GCU friend! Love your cards and your sweet spirit. The card of your girls when they were young is so heart warming.
Priscilla
Great to see you in the spotlight Pam! I’ve been a fan for a long time and always appreciate the help and wisdom you offer on the forum. So nice to hear some of your artistic journey!
Doreen
Thanks Pam for a great read about you and your cards. I have always been a fan of Pam J Arts. Your daughters were adorable!
Pam, I’ve been a fan for quite a while now, so I enjoyed getting to know you a little better! Your cancer encouragement card with the same photo of your two girls on the front has been in my “favorites” for a long time and has been featured a couple of times on my Hope for Cancer blog. Great spotlight, thanks!
Robin
P.S. I’ve been in a little bit of a design slump lately … maybe I need to vacuum a little more!! 🙂
I did not know back in 2008 what a special and talented community of artists and friends I was about to join. Thank you everyone for your kind words, you have made my day 🙂
Hi Pam, your story is a great read and your cards are fabulous too. Great to get to know you.
Hi Pam, I loved reading your story. Very interesting to learn how you met your hubby, seems like it was meant to be! The card with your daughters is so adorable! Congratulations my friend!
A wonderful read tonight! I too have enjoyed many of your cards.
Congrats on this featured spotlight Pam~ 🙂
Thanks Janet and Lj 🙂 I hope all is well with you and sales are good!
Hi Betsy, I have seen your lovely cards about on GCU and am happy to meet you too 🙂
Robin, how’s the vacuuming going? any new ideas popping in?
Hi, Pam!
Congrats on being featured! What a treat to get to know you a little better!
Penny 🙂
Hi Pam!
Congratulation on being in the design spotlight here on GCU! Your cards are always thoughtfully made and beautiful, and I enjoyed reading your story…although I think I think I knew most of it! Hope you’re enjoying the summer. I’ve been off GCU for a while now, and have been very busy lately with other things, but must get back to it sometime in the near future….glad I happened in here today and saw your card!
All the best, Avis