Author Description

What is unusual about Parkes is that in his paintings and lithos, metaphysical and spiritual elements are joined to reality. His work evokes a mysterious atmosphere which can often be deciphered with the help of ancient mythology and eastern philosophy. His real strength lies in the narrow sense, which he has mastered as have few others, to the figurative construction of his phantasmagoria, complete with colour and light, space and material expression, even when this has a mainly immaterial and unearthly character. In this fantasy work of Parkes the laws of earthly reality are abolished, and space and time enter into their own 'motionless' communion.