Born in Malawi, Pam has spent most of her life in one of Africa's most remote wilderness areas - the Luangwa River Valley in Zambia. Pam's father, Norman Carr, was the resident game ranger and one of the great characters of the conservation milieu in southern Africa.

Pam grew up fascinated by the extraordinary natural riches that surrounded her and she shared her father’s sensitivity to the needs and aspirations of the local rural population. Tribal legends and oral traditions were part of her life and now pervade much of the intellectual process that underpins her painting.

An instinctive draughtsman, Pam’s African creatures meander haphazardly across the canvas and playful images and totemic symbols often intrude on her descriptions of a subtle and sometimes violent ecosystem. This alludes to the reality that today no wilderness is without any influence from mankind. This tense interface between rural man and true wilderness fascinates Carr and is now perhaps the central theme running through her art.