Pam Ellis received an Honorable Mention in the Utrecht 60th Anniversary Art Contest. RANGELEY — Pamela Jo Ellis of Rangeley received an Honorable Mention in the Utrecht 60th Anniversary Art Contest. Ellis’s winning image, “Three Boys,” will be pictured in the January and February issues of American Artist magazine.

Artists from all over the country submitted over six thousand images to the competition, and Ellis is one of six winners in the watercolor category. As a reward for her Honorable Mention, she received a free year gift subscription to American Artist magazine.

Ellis paints small-scale and miniature paintings of children as well as intimate landscapes of her beloved western Maine. She has won many other prestigious awards from exhibits around Maine as well as from the Miniature Art Society of Florida, the Mount Washington Valley Art Society, the Cider Painters of America, and the New Mexico Miniature Art Society.

She is represented locally by the Birds of a Feather Gallery in Rangeley, the Gallery at Stony Batter in Oquossoc, and at the Fore Street Gallery in Portland. Her works can be seen online at www.pjellisart.com.

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