About

JONATHAN PARKER
“Notes”

“I work by intuition or feeling, using a sensibility I’ve developed over time to guide me, rather than my critical mind. In this way I’ve eliminated some of the internal thinking, which for me can get in the way. I do my work, one piece at a time, trying to have no expectations – just an open heart for what is to come. Primarily, the paintings are first and foremost about shapes, and how shapes work alongside each other or stand on their own. My recent larger work – which either hang together as a grid or are sewn onto a large piece of canvas – sit in my imagination as …