Pam COULTER Blehert paints primarily in oil and acrylics. She has around 350 paintings in private collections and 3 in corporate or government collections. She has received many top awards in local shows. Her paintings have been featured in the American Artist magazine (Feb. '95) and included in the North Light Book of Acrylic Painting Techniques (By Earl Grenville). She has participated in regional juried shows and had a number of one-person shows. Until it closed in 1997, She was represented by Venable-Neslage Galleries in Washington, D.C. In 1998, she had a painting accepted for display in the National Art Club in New York City. She participates regularly in Art League shows at the Torpedo Factory as well as League of Reston Artists shows.

An illustrator and cartoonist as well as oil painter, she worked most recently as a technical writer and computer graphics artist for a local company. Now nominally "retired", she conducts an oil/acrylic workshop Wednesday evenings at the Reston Community Center and pursues her painting career as well as volunteer community work for the Church of Scientology. She will do commissions and portraits from photos and sittings. Her work can be seen on the web at www.blehert.com/gallery.

Recent shows and awards:

• August, 2008: "Splash" and "Great Falls - 2006" are on display as part of the annual League of Reston Artists' show at the U.S. Geological Center in Reston VA. Great Falls won First Place award. Vistiors must check in at the Visitors' Parking Lot with photo ID. But this is worth seeing, a display of over 100 paintings by No. Virginia's talented artists.
• July, 2008: Cloudy Day, Riverbend was accepted for display in the monthly show at the Art League of Alexandria.
• June, 2008: Spring House, Nancy's Place was accepted in the juried League of Reston Artists' show at Reston Community Center and received an "Equal Merit" award. (An Equal Merit award replaces the "First, Second and Third Place" awards.)
• April, 2008: Nancy's Place, Reflection (oil, 16 x 12) was painted on site at an estate in Loudoun County during a plein air weekend with local artist and teacher Ed Cooper. It reflects my fascination with water in all its forms. This received an Honorable Mention in the League of Reston Artists April 2008 show at the Reston Community Center.
• Dec, 2007: Les Saintes Harbor IV, a small watercolor, sold from the Bin Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art League gallery.
• Nov, 2007: "MacArthur & Dana (oil study)" was accepted in the Art League monthly show and sold. Also sold "Wild Ducks at Meadowlark Gardens" and gifted "High Winds".
• Sept, 2007: I finished a restoration of a painting for one of my students, a portrait of her mother done when her mother was young. I also did a painting of Masks for the current MAX_21 show. And I completed an interpretation of Riverbend using acrylic and palette knife.
• June, 2007: "Fast Food" and "Universal Liquor" were accepted in the ArtReston, 14th Juried Exhibition on display at the Reston Community Center through July 2, 2007 and "Small Boat Dock, Alexandria" is on display as part of the Paint Alexandria show at the Torpedo Factory Art League gallery space. The June show at the Artworks Gallery in Reston includes 4 one-foot square paintings of Reston. Also participated in an outdoor painting event, June 2, at Riverbend Park, and sold a small oil study of a boy fishing. (No picture taken, unfortunately.) A painting of Riverbend is in the show at the visitor's center through the end of June.
• May, 2007: "Hidden Hope" sold. "Tamara and Skye" sold. "Rainy Day in Herndon" was on display in the Reston Community Center Student-Teacher show.
• April, 2007: She participated in a show with Max_21 and her first really large (36 x 48) non-objective painting.
• March, 2007: "Spring House, Nancy's Place" was accepted in the judged Art League of Alexandria show at the Torpedo Factory.
  
• February, 2007: The artist participated in a show with Max_21 group at ArtWorks in Reston: 21 views of "how we see ourselves" done on uniform panels 2.5' wide by 5' high. Click here to see her painting.
  
• January, 2007: She participated in a community show sponsored by the Arts Council of Fairfax County at Washington Trade Center and a triptich (Winter I, II, III) sold.
  
• Dec, 2006: The Painting "Early Spring, River Bend" was accepted in Art League of Alexandria's monthly show and was sold. Several paintings were also in the MAX_21 show at Artworks in Reston.
  
• Nov, 2006: The painting "Pandora's Box" was accepted in the Art League of Alexandria's "Political" theme show, the painting "Hot Jazz" was accepted into the "Small Works" show, and the painting "Tilt" is showing in the bin gallery at the same venue through Dec 4, 2006.
• Sept, 2006: The painting "Beauty Spot, Potomac" was accepted in the Art League of Alexandria monthly show and was sold within the first week of the show! It remains on view until end Sept. The painting Cloudy Day, Riverbend is also accepted in the "bin gallery".
• June 2006: The painting "Gazebo, Nancy's Place" was painted during a plein air workshop and sold that day.
• June, 2006: The painting "Small Boat Dock Alexandria (study)" Painted in Plein Air during May in Alexandria, was accepted in the June Art League of Alexandria show at the Torpedo Factory.
• June, 2006: The painting "Early Morning After Rain, River Bend Park" was painted 6/3/06 and sold that day at a "wet canvas" auction.
• June 2006: The painting "Beauty Spot, Potomac" was accepted in the 13th Annual Juried Exhibition of the League of Reston Artists, June 2006, judged by Jack Rasmussen, Director of the Art Gallery at the Katzen Arts Center at American University and won a Third Place Award.
• April, 2006, the painting "Mirra, All Dressed Up" was accepted for display in the Art League gallery in the Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA.
• August, 2005, the painting "Mirra, All Dressed Up" won Hon. mention in the League of Reston Artists' show and the painting "Washington Cathedral Façade" was accepted for display at the Art League gallery in the Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA.
• June, 2005, painting "St. Barth's Bay" was accepted for exhibit in The Art League Gallery for the June show
• November, 2004, painting "Temple Farm Creek" was selected for inclusion Open Exhibition, 2004, sponsored by the Arts Council of Fairfax County. Juror: Paul B. Salmon.
• October, 2004, painting "Erin" (a portrait study) was accepted in the monthly juried Art League of Alexandria show at the Torpedo Factory.
• June, 2004, portrait "Monroe" was accepted into the "Portrait" show at the Art League of Alexandria show at the Torpedo Factory.
• May, 2004, painting, "Fast Food" was juried into a show on "Food and the Still Life" at the Art League of Alexandria gallery at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA.
• March, 2004, painting "Farmyard in Winter" was accepted in the Art League of Alexandria monthly juried show. The judge for the show was Mark Leithauser, Senior Curator and Chief in Design for the National Gallery of Art.
• November ,2003, " 'Otel, Midwest" accepted in the prestigious "Open Exhibition 2003", juried by the curator of the Phillips Collection.
• September, 2003, portrait of Louie Bellucci won Best of Show in the Art League Gallery Show at the Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, juried by Duncan Tebow.
• August 2003, "Temple Farm Creek" was accepted in the Art League Gallery Show, and "Universal Liquor" won an "Equal Merit" award In the annual League of Reston Artists show at the US Geological Survey.
• June, 2003, "Farmyard in Winter" accepted in the League of Reston Artists juried show at Reston Community Center, juror, well-known critic and curator, David Tannous.