Mail Art News #33: Pam Chatfield's Whimsical Surrealism
Yellow House by Pam Chatfield (cropped for header image use) ✉ 🎨 🖌 📰 ✉ 🎨 🖌 📰 ✉ 🎨 🖌 📰 Thomas Brown (TB): I see on your blog that you've been a mail artist since 1979. How did you get started in mail art? Pam Chatfield (PC): When I was a teenager I tried penpalling. I found that I wasn't too much into letter writing, but I loved exchanging drawings, stickers, and participating in add & passes. I lost most of my pen pals because they liked long letters and they were lucky to get a whole paragraph out of me. Eventually the letter writers dropped off and I was left with a few people who were like me, so we continued to send each other art and circulate our little add & pass booklets. Then when I got married my new hubby was in the air force and I moved from Massachusetts to New Mexico. At that point my friends from Massachusetts joined in the art and add & pass correspondence to ...