Alan Parker

Born in1965 in Woodsetts, Yorkshire, he studied at Barnsley College of Art and then The Royal Academy Schools. He has taught at several school and colleges in the UK and was Director of The Leonardo Centre at Uppingham School.

Alan Parker’s work is not easy to categorise – he is known largely for his English Folk Art sensibilities,describing personal experiences, observations from his rural life, through to images from folk tales, Bible stories, and latterly almost abstract land, sea and skyscapes.

Parker describes how he has ‘a huge amount of images inside myself’ and his art describes this world. Lowry had his Salford, Wallis his St Ives, and Parker his misty, remote Lincolnshire fenland, where he has lived and worked for his adult life.

He has had many and varied joint and solo exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA and is represented in many important private and public collections, including The National Portrait Gallery. He has been a visiting artist Cambridge and Warwick Universities, a Visiting Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, a Leverhulme Scholar, and the recipient of a number of awards and prizes, including The Sunday Times Watercolour Prize, The Royal Watercolour Society Presidents Prize and The National Portrait Gallery Travel Prize.