Michael Parkes paintings
Michael Parkes is the world’s leading magical realist painter, sculptor, and stone lithographer. His decades of success as a fine artist stand out in the art world, where less than 1% of artists ever achieve the success in both the primary and secondary markets that Michael has achieved. His works are collected by celebrities, private collectors, and galleries around the world, and his body of work stands for the ages. That being said, Michael continues to create many new works, all of which are widely sought after. Read on for more information about Michael’s exhibition history, style and technique, place in art history, and personal history.
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The Juggler is the first of ‘the rope’ paintings. Although the final surrealistic image apprears to have come into being quite naturally, it changed many times until it arrived at its finished state.
Some believe that long ago devas (guardian angels) were given the task of creating our physical universe. Here sits the deva of dragonflies, resting, as an artist would, after creating her work of art.
Rosa was a young dancer that used to frequent our home years ago. When she was accepted to a German ballet company in 1984, her physical and emotional maturity were put to the test. She left her home and country and made that first step out into the world of dance alone.
At the transitional time of puberty, innocence mixes with knowledge to create magic. This child experiences the power of this magic for the first time.
In pursuit of the Unknowable, the swan princess is encouraged by the swans to fly. Until ultimately, like Casteneda’s leaping from the cliff, she will learn to shift from matter to spirit and back again as we all must do eventually.
