Pamela Patrick White is one of the few women creating historic art in our country today. Commonly viewed as a man’s field, military history first caught Pamela’s attention while she was working as a book illustrator in New York. “I started going to historic reenactments as a hobby in 1986. I viewed the American Revolutionary War and French and Indian Wars from the edge of the battlefield, but the more I saw, the more I wanted to know…about everything.”
Her answer was to join an 18th Century army as a fifer in the 1st Maryland Regiment and Wieser’s Battalion, taking to the field in all types of weather. The experience has given her insight into some of the conditions men and women shared during our country’s inception.
Over the years, Pamela has gone from learning historic facts, to applying emotions that exist today into the lives of people from the past. While the Revolutionary War and Colonial period is her main focus, the early years of the first colonies, the War of 1812 and the Civil War have also been the subjects of her pastel and oil paintings. |
