Pamela Jekel is a nationally-known novelist, well regarded for her historical sagas, with three New York Times bestsellers and four regional bestsellers.. Her fourteen books were published in both hardcover and paperback, and have been translated into sixteen foreign languages, as well as Braille and Large Print editions.
Pamela grew up in a home inspired by art, as her father, Willliam Jekel, was a successful California watercolorist and muralist. Working at his feet as a child, she heard him often say, "Art is the only way to reinvent life according to our own specifications."
Offering encouragement rather than criticism, he helped her develop her ability to make her paintings vibrate with realistic life, lush color, and personal vision.
Jekel received her formal training at UCLA and the University of Virginia, obtained a Ph.D in English, and after twenty years as a successful novelist, turned again to her first love, painting in the classical realism style in both watercolor and oils. Her floral and bird studies are increasingly popular, and she also offers her unique renditions of local landscapes, seascapes, and cloudscapes, which she interprets with the same blend of realism and sensuality which has always infused her art.
Jekel and her family live in Athens, Georgia on a green and noisy river, amidst a landscape that provides many of the subjects for her work. Although she has lived in many states and traveled worldwide, she relishes the tranquillity of her Southern home. Jekel's passion for natural beauty is a conduit into each painting, a way for the viewer to possess forever that perfect moment when the flower blooms, the bird sings, and the fruit is ripe.