NEW WORK
Karen
Lorena
Parker
My life is an optimistic bubble even when times are tough. I’m a romantic. I can enjoy emotional rollercoasters because I’m thankful I took the risk to live. I get paint on everything: clothes, Iphone, Car… my brother’s dog. This may read like a Plenty of fish profile, but what I mean to say is: an artist has to maintain a sense of grandeur at all costs inorder to paint. When I’m alone in my studio, it’s essential to believe my act of painting is worthwhile, meaningful, purposeful to someone other than me.
“It’s like you said in your Dubai article, about being nature inspired.” I meet a true fan interested in my process and rough drafts. “And the Richmond news about the wind in the trees!” She owns two of my paintings and is in my studio before the Thursday sale. She knows the name of every painting I flip through. She has studied me and my work and I am meeting her for the first time as she purchases her third original piece. I’m thrilled and surprised. She is someone who could write my biography.
As a teenager my Dad said to me, “To be an artist, you have to be Great.” When I paint, I think I am. When I see the elation from my clients, it gives me hope I’m not schizophrenic.
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ART SALE
TOMORROW
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“You’re always ‘Excellent!’”
-my Dad not sure if he should believe me.
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Karen Lorena Parker