Vicken Parsons
Works available
Untitled
2005
17 × 21 cm / 6 3/4 × 8 1/4 ins
Untitled
2006
12 × 12 cm / 4 3/4 × 4 3/4 ins
Untitled
2000
15 × 15 cm / 5 7/8 × 5 7/8 ins
Untitled
2006
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
Exhibitions of her work have included New Art Centre, Salisbury, Tate St Ives and Christine König Galerie, Vienna. She lives and works in London.