The Artists Behind
Silver Pick Studios

Pámela Vigo Sánchez is a visual artist based in El Paso, Texas. Her love for horses began almost as soon as she could walk up to a horse, emphasized by drawing colorful horses in notebooks and wearing equestrian themed outfits for school picture day. Riding horses and making little drawings for teachers and classmates were the beginnings of Pámela's future equestrian lifestyle. She now owns Indy, an Appendix gelding, whom she collaborates with to create her colorful watercolor and ink drawings lovingly dubbed Indoodles. 
Pámela started her art career while attending the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) for a pre-law degree, and switched over to art three years into the law program. While attending UTEP, she created the body of work called Indoodles, watercolor paintwork by Indy with her line drawings superimposed on top. She graduated with a Bachelors in Arts in 2019, and followed graduation with a residency in the 2019 Horse and Art Research Program in Barnag, Hungary. In addition to her freelance work and owning her art business, Silver Pick Studios, Pámela began her teaching career as volunteer instructor for SKIES Unlimited children's art classes, part of the Soldier Art Workshop program on Fort Bliss. She continues teaching with SKIES Unlimited as an art instructor.
 
Photos by Jean Marie Newman & Strange Studios Photos.

Mural Work

El Paso Zoo, completed March 2024

Awards

  • 2024 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, Second Best in Show 
  • 2024 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, Best of Lot in Mixed Media & Collage
  • 2024 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, Second Best in Lot in Miscellaneous Painting
  • 2024 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, First Place in Large Mixed Media 
  • 2024 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, First Place in Combination of Two or More Types of Paint
  • 2024 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, Second Place in Small Mixed Media
  • 2022 WINNIE Award for Watercolor category at the 2022 EQUUS Film & Arts Festival
  • Brave Books bookmark art design selected, June 2022
  • 2021 LGTBQ+ Border Heroes playing card deck design selected: Grand Prize 
  • 2019 Border Creatives for the Count Create-A-Thon: Grand Prize
  • 2018 El Paso Funeral Home Art Museum Urn Art Competition: First Place
  • 2018 Art From the Heart art auction benefiting Hospice of El Paso: Honorable Mention.

Publications

Photo by Reba Eoff

Festivals

  • La Frontera Print Fest Panoramic Print Day, December 7th  2024
  • La Frontera Print Fest 2024, November 9th 2024
  • 53rd Annual Renaissance ArtsFaire, November 2nd-3rd 2024
  • Chalk the Block, October 12th-13th 2024
  • Madeline Park Shakespeare Festival, September 20th-21st 2024
  • Brew at the Zoo, September 14th 2024
  • Franciscan Festival of Fine Arts, August 31st - September 1st 2024
  • Feminist Border Arts  Zine Fest, June 29th 2024
  • ¡mira! Las Cruces, Main Street Las Cruces, April 27th 2024 
  • Las Cruces Arts Fair, March 23rd-24th 2024
  • Poppies Fest, March 9th 2024
  • 52nd Annual Renaissance ArtsFaire, November 4th-5th 2023
  • Chalk the Block, October 14th-15th 2023
  • Madeline Park Shakespeare Festival, September 22nd-23rd 2023
  • Franciscan Festival of Fine Arts, September 2nd-3rd 2023
  • Las Artistas Spring Show, April 29th-30th 2023
  • Poppies Fest, March 4 2023
  • EQUUS Film & Arts Festival, December 1st-4th 2022
  • Las Artistas Fine Arts and Crafts Show, November 19th-20th 2022
  • Chalk the Block, October 7th-9th 2022
  • Shakespeare on the Rocks, September 23rd-24th 2022

Residencies

  • Retro Revival: September 2023-present, El Paso, TX
  • Soldier Art Workshop Program: January 2023-December 2024, Fort Bliss, TX
  • Paard Verzameld Collective: December 2021-September 2023, online
  • Cowgirl Artists of America, founding member, May 2022 - May 2023, online
  • El Paso’s Finest: January 2022-September 2022, El Paso, TX
  • The Gallery of the Horse: 2020-2021, online
  • Horse and Art Research Program (HARP): August 2019, Barnag, Hungary
Photo by Liz Cleaves, HARP 2019 artist-in-resident

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