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
2025 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, Best of Lot in Mixed Media & Collage2025 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, First Place in Large Mixed Media2025 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, Second Place in Large Mixed Media2025 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, First Place in Small Mixed Media2025 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, Third Place in Small Mixed Media2025 State Fair of Texas Adult Creative Arts Professional Fine Art Competition, Second Premier2024 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, Second Best in Show2024 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, Best of Lot in Mixed Media & Collage2024 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, Second Best in Lot in Miscellaneous Painting2024 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, First Place in Large Mixed Media2024 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, First Place in Combination of Two or More Types of Paint2024 Southern New Mexico State Fair Adult Fine Art Competition, Second Place in Small Mixed Media2022 WINNIE Award for Watercolor category at the 2022 EQUUS Film & Arts FestivalBrave Books bookmark art design selected, June 20222021 LGTBQ+ Border Heroes playing card deck design selected: Grand Prize2019 Border Creatives for the Count Create-A-Thon: Grand Prize2018 El Paso Funeral Home Art Museum Urn Art Competition: First Place2018 Art From the Heart art auction benefiting Hospice of El Paso: Honorable Mention.
Publications
UTEP Rio Grande Review, Spring 2025EPCC Chrysalis Journal, Fall 2024Ziniestro Volume 2, Summer 2024EPCC Chrysalis Journal, Fall 2023Minero Magazine, Volume 35. Fall 2022Rigorous, Volume 5, Issue 1, Online, January 2021Life in the Time, Online, May 2020Ripple Zine, 2018-2019.
Photo by Reba Eoff
Festivals
La Frontera Print Fest Panoramic Print Day, December 7th 2024
La Frontera Print Fest 2024, November 9th 202453rd Annual Renaissance ArtsFaire, November 2nd-3rd 2024Chalk the Block, October 12th-13th 2024Madeline Park Shakespeare Festival, September 20th-21st 2024Brew at the Zoo, September 14th 2024Franciscan Festival of Fine Arts, August 31st - September 1st 2024Feminist Border Arts Zine Fest, June 29th 2024¡mira! Las Cruces, Main Street Las Cruces, April 27th 2024Las Cruces Arts Fair, March 23rd-24th 2024Poppies Fest, March 9th 202452nd Annual Renaissance ArtsFaire, November 4th-5th 2023Chalk the Block, October 14th-15th 2023Madeline Park Shakespeare Festival, September 22nd-23rd 2023Franciscan Festival of Fine Arts, September 2nd-3rd 2023Las Artistas Spring Show, April 29th-30th 2023Poppies Fest, March 4 2023EQUUS Film & Arts Festival, December 1st-4th 2022Las Artistas Fine Arts and Crafts Show, November 19th-20th 2022Chalk the Block, October 7th-9th 2022Shakespeare on the Rocks, September 23rd-24th 2022
Residencies
Retro Revival: September 2023-present, El Paso, TXSoldier Art Workshop Program: January 2023-December 2024, Fort Bliss, TX
Paard Verzameld Collective: December 2021-September 2023, onlineCowgirl Artists of America, founding member, May 2022 - May 2023, onlineEl Paso’s Finest: January 2022-September 2022, El Paso, TXThe Gallery of the Horse: 2020-2021, onlineHorse and Art Research Program (HARP): August 2019, Barnag, Hungary
Photo by Liz Cleaves, HARP 2019 artist-in-resident