Vicken Parsons
Works available
Untitled
2005
Oil on wood
17 × 21 cm / 6 3/4 × 8 1/4 ins
Untitled
2006
Oil on wood
12 × 12 cm / 4 3/4 × 4 3/4 ins
Untitled
2000
Oil on wood
15 × 15 cm / 5 7/8 × 5 7/8 ins
Untitled
2006
Oil on wood
22 × 28 cm / 8 5/8 × 11 ins
Biography
(1957–)
Vicken Parsons studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her recent paintings engage with space and light, architectural interiors and landscapes, represented using thin layers of oil paint on wood and latterly glass panels. The images are of spaces remembered or imagined, rendered in subtle muted colour. The diminutive size of the paintings belies the scale of the spaces they engender in the imagination of the viewer.
'...there are tunnels, passages and the borders of rooms – walls, edges and corners as well as doorways and windows, penetrations of light that mark the slender thresholds between inner and outer worlds. Sometimes the lines seem to run out or give up, columns don't support ceilings. It is as if they suggest internal spaces without claiming to be them, they demarcate their possibility and recreate the felt experience of being there.'
Annushka Shani, 2005
Recent exhibitions include New Art Centre, Salisbury 2006, Tate St Ives 2002 and Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2005. She lives and works in London.