Pamela Desmet Franklin

As a multiplatform artist, the work of Pamela Desmet Franklin comprises images from the natural world: photography, mixed media/collage/prints and watercolor/ink, acrylic & digital paintings. Coming from a craft background of sewing, knitting, embroidery and crochet, she experiments with fabric and fibre to create book covers, soft sculptures and hangings- dyeing silk and cotton using both natural and fibre reactive dyes.  “I like the idea of “touchable art” and try to emphasize and create imaginably more texturized art in an increasingly digitized world. I am similarly drawn toward creatively repurposing objects through the recovery arts.”  

Pamela has exhibited at Martha Street Studio, C2, Fleet, cre8ery, The Pavilion in Assiniboine Park, Buhler, MAWA, & Prairie Fusion Galleries. Her art can be seen on Instagram @pameladesmetfranklinart & alternative gallery spaces: El Spa & Gordies’ Coffee House or by appointment by email.