Michelle Parsons

Michelle Parsons is a UK based oil painter specialising in organic-based paintings and commissions. Her artwork is often based on drawing marine creatures, such as lobsters, fish, and crabs, although she has also branched out to abstract artwork and portraits.

Parsons is influenced by painters like Gerhard Richter and John Piper, and her art brings together loose brushstrokes, striking impasto marks, bold colours, and texture to create vivid and tactile pieces. 

Parsons uses colour, space, texture and light to embellish her work, with her loose brushstroke and blurred backgrounds contrasting with her penchant for sharp detail and tighter representational mark-making. Talking about her art, she stated: "The longer I paint, the more I realise that my work is all about the composition as a whole. My style has an adaptive reverence for the subject and yet does not rely on it-elevating the forms with bright use of colour and mark-making. The resulting pieces are proud declarations of colour and expression."