About Pamela Bell

Bio

Pamela Bell is a collage artist whose work explores loss, transformation, and renewal. Through layered compositions, she reimagines history, identity, and the roles women occupy in art and society.

Color and pattern have long been central to Pamela’s practice. Her creative process—spanning painting, shape creation, and silkscreening—is both a personal ritual and form of self-care: an intuitive act of cutting, tearing, assembling, and layering that reflects cultural shifts.To Pamela, collage is more than expression; it’s a metaphor for resilience. Her pieces draw from a decade of transitions—losing loved ones, raising children, and saying goodbye to a home. Her creations inspire reflection, healing, and joy in imperfections.

Beyond creativity, Pamela is an entrepreneur and advocate. She founded Prinkshop, a social enterprise producing advocacy-based wearable campaigns in the USA. (www.prinkshop.com)

She was one of the four founding partners of Kate Spade and Jack Spade, alongside Elyce Arons, Kate Spade, and Andy Spade. Pamela shaped the brand’s design, development, retail strategy, and international reach.A longtime supporter of mental health, Pamela co-founded the Bowery Arts Project in 2012, offering classes to homeless individuals in recovery. In 2019, she joined Kenneth Cole as a co-founder of The Mental Health Coalition, an organization dedicated to reducing stigma. (www.mentalhealthcoalition.org)

Her dedication includes serving as a Tony Voter, Disruptor Fellow, CFDA member, and Lang Center Innovation Fellow at Columbia Business School. She also serves on the Advisory Committee of The American Theatre Wing.

Pamela’s passion is to challenge outdated narratives, inspire hope and elevate overlooked voices.

Contact: pamelajbell@gmail.com

Words on work

Color and pattern always feel like a second language to me. The process of creating collage is a lifelong love and practice. A path in business that satisfies my desire to create things and use color as a means to an end has been my vocation throughout my career.

The making of this body of work conjures up deep feelings I long ago buried or had not known existed. This work is self-care, a meditation, and a therapy of sorts. This decade has been a time of monumental transition for my family — children growing into young adults, the loss of loved ones, and the loss of our familial home. The shapes and papers and paint become a daily practice, screen printing, cutting, tearing, and gluing. Making, breaking down, and putting all back together on a blank canvas of sorts. A process that is in many ways parallel to the cultural shift in our country. Breaking down old views – tearing apart the status quo and re-building what, one hopes, to be a better world.

The entire series is an intervention with art history. All the collages in this series are created over book pages by male artists, reimagined with color, emotion, and desire. The shapes covering the pages mimic the position female artists, as well as women in many other careers, have had throughout time. These pages provide a space for women to reflect on the space they take up in the world, the space they deserve.

My dream is that this work will emit an energy of hope, inspiring others to feel their grief and emerge with forgiveness, for both themselves and others. Allowing the viewer to see the world with a newfound joy about the beautiful imperfect journey that brings us all here now and pushes us all to test out limiting beliefs.

Pamela Bell

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Exhibitions and Features

Solo Shows

Mercer Gallery, South Hampton, NY - June 2021
P Gallery, Summit, NJ - May 2024

Group Shows

Bravin Lee Projects, Group Book Show - June 2024

Current Exhibitions

Selected works at L'Epicuriste, Main Street, Bridgehampton
Selected works at Patrick Meile, William Street, Greenwich, CT

Features

Featured Artist in Juniper Magazine, 2022
Featured in Patrick Meile Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse - May 2024