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Ione Parkin
Painter & Printmaker

My work is concerned with the elemental processes of landscape. I combine an intuitive and tactile exploration of the painting medium with a response to natural phenomena, the forces of geological activity and the development of organic form.

Through various mark-making processes the paint is imbued with the spark and charge of life and gradually each painting becomes like a fossil-bearing surface, revealing tracks and traces - a record of remembered senses. The work eventually sets into its new-found form, freeze-framed in time and motion.

This is a point of unstable equilibrium where the contrasting states of resolution and quest co-exist.

The paintings function as a microcosm - a finely balanced and sustainable system where each of the complex variety of marks makes a vital and unique contribution to the success of the whole.

A state of fragile stability is achieved between clarity and diffusion, between the relative densities of substance and space, between structure and chaos. The work is in a sense a homage to the force of nature.

Selected Solo Exhibitions (recent)
2002 Royal United Hospital, Bath (c/o Six Chapel Row Gallery) 
1998 Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, USA
1996 Art First, Cork Street, London
1994 Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath
1989 Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury
         The Artisans Gallery, Bath
                                              

Background and Training
1965   Born Henley-on-Thames
1985 – 88   Winchester School of Art BA Hons, Fine Art
1996 – 98   New York study visits and studio work
1998 – 99   City of Bath College, Printmaking
1999   Bath Artist Printmakers, Lithography
1999 – 2000   University of Bath, lecturer
             
 
              
Private Collections
UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Switzerland, France, Denmark
              
Corporate Collections
Reuters Ltd, London

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