John Parks - Artist Info

About John Parks

  • Biography

    John A.Parks is an English painter who was educated at the Royal College of Art in London. He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy while still a graduate student and achieved immediate success as a portrait painter, undertaking the famous Pear's Portrait Commission as well as many private commissions. Parks moved to New York in the late seventies and has exhibited widely in the United States and Britain over the last forty years.

    Parks is a member of the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York where he teaches courses on portraiture, realist techniques and gouache techniques.

    In additionto his work as a painter Parks has published many articles on art and travel in publications ranging from the New York Ti...

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