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Pamela’s passion is to challenge outdated narratives, inspire hope and elevate overlooked voices.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

Torn Series

The shapes begin whole, full, bold , and feminine, screened in colors mixed by hand, laid over vintage wallpaper from the 40s and 50s, each piece carrying its own quiet history. they are the. folded, ripped, and torn apart. Not as an act of destruction, but as a way to mirror the ruptures life delivers us.


The torn edges carry decades of motherhood, the ache of broken families, the loss a sister, the loss a dear friend, the slipping away of youth, and the hollow quiet when grown children step into their own lives. These fragments hold both joy and absence.


the pieces are placed again, glued tight, letting colors and shapes meet in new, abstract ways. From the fragments, a new wholeness emerges, not the same as before. This time period between raising children and the future, becomes a rare period  to rediscover a self beyond “mother,” to imagine what else might be possible.

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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
The Collage Show, The Gallery at Quogue Library - April 2025
Art for Impact - Vicky Alianelli Gallery - June 2025

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