Parkin, Ione
Ione Parkin is a painter and printmaker and has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She was born in Oxfordshire in 1965. She studied at Winchester School of Art, graduating in 1988 with a BA Hons in Fine Art. Parkin is an elected member of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) and lives in Bath, UK.
Parkin is deeply interested in geology and the natural environment and her paintings reflect this with tactile virtuosity. Her work is informed by extensive travel – from glaciers to volcanic terrain, from mountain ranges to limestone plateaux and from jungles to caves. The experience of this varied stimuli, recorded through drawing, photography and intense observation, forms and nourishes the fertile matrix of memory. She draws on this internal reservoir of remembered senses to create a language entirely her own. Parkin’s work vibrates with a sense of the expansive, the eternal – an expression of the unity of rhythm and motion that exists at microscopic and macroscopic levels. Her language is instinctual, her vision, unique.