Art Talk: Mary Parkman

This Musings Blog Mary Parkman discusses how she creates her beautiful floral paintings for The Art Appreciation Group with The League Club of Naples.

Mary is a floral, abstract and figurative painter whose work is varied in technique and content. Inspired from nature, Parkman translates the world around her using expressive paint strokes and a colorful palette. “My floral paintings consider the same elements as when painting an abstract painting. I put paint on the canvas and push and pull with the paint: addressing value, color, shape and mark making until I achieve a balance and sense of space that feels complete. Though making a“representational” painting, it is not just about the hydrangeas or roses—but amore complicated balance of what I see and feel within, in combination of what the viewer sees and feels. This balance is constantly in motion. Underneath the finished painting, there are a myriad of paintings the viewer doesn’t see. All of those buried layers represent equations that were wrestled with before I moved on.”

“How do I know when a painting is done? I don’t. I just have to stop.”

To see Mary Parkmans paintings at Gardner Colby Gallery click here