About the artist

A fine artist based in rural Port Hope, Pamela Tate’s work is inspired by her background as a professional dancer and her enduring wonder at our world.

The passion, emotion, and movement her work is known for begins with a creative fearlessness, a bold and intuitive first step that embraces curiosity and mystery—the place of arrival yet unknown. Working with the piece, never on it, Pamela engages in a creative conversation with the art, listening intently to what is wanted, what is needed, what is possible. As the piece finds its palette and shape, the enthusiasm for discovery that formed it expands outward, inviting viewers to move closer and share in a meaningful response.


Pamela has built her art practice on collaboration. As owner and curator of The Tate Gallery since 2010, she has shown not only her own considerable body of work, but she has also promoted the collections of more than twenty-five other artists, some local, some from Toronto, Peterborough, and Belleville, others from as far afield as Europe.

Pamela’s work has found homes across Canada, and in the United States, Mexico, Switzerland, Ireland, and England. Commissions are welcome.

Artist C.V.

  • Selected Solo Exhibitions

    2008 Kent Farndale Gallery, Port Perry

    2006 Human Bean, Cobourg

    2005 Human Bean, Cobourg

    2004 Human Bean, Cobourg

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    2004-present Northumberland Hills Studio Tour

    2017 Art Connection, Port Hope with Michiko Nakamura and Peggy Mersereau

    2015 Sozai, Port Hope with Peggy Mersereau, Michiko Nakamura, Elizabeth Vercoe and

    Gundi Viviani-Finch

    2014 Belonging, Port Hope with Heather Cooper and Michiko Nakamura

    2013 Illusions, Port Hope with Michiko Nakamura and Elizabeth Vercoe

    2012 Together for the First Time, Port Hope with Heather Cooper and Michiko Nakamura

    2010-2014 Ganaraska Studio Tour

    2010 Gallery Twenty-One, Belleville with Walter Sawron

    2008 Collection, Port Hope with Christine Brooks and Sue Tate

    2007 Action Central, Port Hope with Barabara Bickell and Wanda Hicks

  • BA (Hon), Queen's University 1976

    Canadian College of Osteopathy 2001-2004

  • 2012 Visual Arts Centre, Bowmanville, best Painting, juried show

    2011. Square Foot Show, Port Hope, Juror's Choice Award

    2009 Visual Arts Centre, Bowmanville, Best Painting, juried show

    2005 Visual Arts Centre, Bowmanville, 3rd place, juried show

  • 2024 Halliburton School of the Arts, drawing the human figure (upcoming)

    2024. Halliburton School of the Arts, basics of acrylic painting (upcoming)

    2009 The Painted Tree, Cobourg - basics in acrylics

    2007 Private art lessons for children (age 8-12), Port Hope

    2092 Quinte Ballet School of Canada, Belleville

    1980-92 School of Toronto Dance Theatre

    1985-89 Ryerson Department of Dance, Toronto

    1984 School of the National Ballet of Canada

    1981-85 Etobicoke School of the Arts, Toronto

    1985-86 Dancemakers, Toronto

    1984 School of Winnipeg Contemporary Dance, Winnipeg