Colin Parker

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Colin parker is an artist of outstanding talent and ability who is best known for his figurative depiction of outback Australia in oils. His name is one that conjures up an immediate affinity for the Australian landscape with its harshness and sheer isolation that is so boldly and colourfully captured in his works.
Colin recently spent a month as “Artist-in-Residence at Ayers Rock in the Central Desert and has been “Artist-in Residence” at Kakadu on many occasions.

As well as his love of painting outback Australia, Colin has painted in Paris, Southern France, Rome and the North of Italy – his “Paris in the Snow” series winning many accolades.

Colin is a respected Art Judge and recently completed four years as President of the Royal Art Society of
New South Wales. He has had three portraits hung in the prestigious Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of N.S.W., a landscape in the Wynne Prize and has won First Prize in Sydney’s Royal Easter Show competition on three occasions.

His works are included in many Corporate collections both in Australia and overseas, in State Government Collections and in Comonwealth Government Collections.