Pamela George

PAMELA GEORGE is an environmental artist whose work honors imperiled environments – coral reefs by warming seas, rain forests by encroaching mines and plantations, island cultures by sea level rise, and precious flora and fauna by mismanagement of their terrains. She owns the P’Gale Fine Art Studio in Durham, North Carolina.

George was a long-time Professor at North Carolina Central and Duke universities where she taught research techniques to Education and Environmental Science graduate students who might one day evaluate, monitor and improve our schools and our planet. Her teaching work took her to Samoa (as a Peace Corps teacher), to Thailand, the Maldives, Portugal and South Africa (as a Fulbright Professor), and to China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Malaysia to document the work-lives of teachers around the globe. "College Teaching Abroad" is her book that documents this work.

Additionally, George served in Papua New Guinea and Borneo as the field camp manager for her environmental scientist daughter who studies imperiled rain forests. They met over a hundred wild orangutans in the Borneo forests and she was inspired to paint many of them.

George is famous among her grand-daughter’s little pals (and the 'under-five set' in North Carolina), as author of “The North Carolina Alphabet.” It depicts native flora and fauna from alligators to Venus fly-traps.

In her latest children’s book, “Little Turtle and Baby Ray,” kids encounter delightful and perilous creatures as they follow a wee hawksbill turtle and a baby sting ray around a living coral reef. A diver for 50 years, George illustrates this book from her knowledge of the fauna and her own adventures at the bottom of the sea.

George lives in Durham, North Carolina with her husband and a building full of mates at the Durham Central Park Cohousing Community…and where her kids and grand-daughter enjoy, yet do serious quality control of, her children’s books.