Plain Song, Duality - For the Colour Gold

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CreatorParker, J.S.NamePlain Song, Duality - For the Colour GoldDate Made2010Medium DescriptionOil on canvasObject NumberLU270Dimensionsactual 800 mm x 1200 mmCredit LineIn Memory of David Reid Wilkie, B.Ag.Sc. Lincoln (1933 - 1935). Visionary, Innovator and Soil Conservator ahead of his time. Gifted by Gill (nee Wilkie) and Bruce Ross and family.
Further information‘I became, against my will, side-tracked by the luminosity and lyricism of my natural surroundings’.
J.S. Parker

Landscape is central to the paintings of J.S. Parker. For over forty years he was based in Blenheim where he interpreted the landscape through abstract compositions concerned with space, colour, light and texture.
These two works illustrate Parker’s journey toward refining his vision of the landscape to its barest formal elements. Lines and shapes representing horizons, fields and rivers.

Parker graduated from Ilam School of Fine Arts in 1966 and moved to Blenheim in 1971 to teach. He worked on his well-known Plain Song series from the 1980s till his death in 2017 – expressing the colour of the Marlborough landscape in musical terms.
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Plain Song, Duality - For the Colour Gold