PAM BRANNEN

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Pam Brannen is a PhD economist retired from an investment management career. She and her husband moved from Atlanta to St. Simons in 1999. She has long been an art collector but has only recently, through her involvement with Glynn Visual Arts, become an active participant in the arts. Her work is primarily small paper pieces of mixed media and abstract collage using watercolor or acrylics.  

Pam has exhibited in the Portman Gallery at Glynn Visual Arts, in the St. Simon’s Island Welcome Center, and in an upscale retail venue in Chicago. 

For many years, Suzanne's creative outlet had been food.  She was manager of the Continuing Education Center at Appalachian State University, worked at several restaurants in North Carolina and Atlanta, owned restaurants in North Carolina and Brunswick and had a catering business on Saint Simons for 20 years.  

Fifteen years ago, a friend of hers had suggested they take a drawing class at Glynn Visual Arts on Saint Simons Island in Georgia. Suzanne tried colored pencil, watercolor, and settled on acrylics as her medium of choice. Suzanne's catering business was her main creative outlet, but she managed to fit in painting whenever she could. Trying new techniques, adding the unexpected, and just having fun, following an idea to see where it takes her, helps make each painting an adventure.  

Suzanne has won a number of blue and red ribbons at the Jekyll Art Festival on Jekyll Island in Georgia.

Suzanne had a solo show at Hotel Simone on Saint Simons Island in Georgia from June through September of 2024.