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Yvonne Parr: Sing a Song of Sixpence, Oil on canvas. (2006) Courtesy of the artist.
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There’s an Angel Looking Over Your Shoulder, Oil on Canvas. (2006). Courtesy of the artist
Exhibition
Yvonne Parr: Heaven, Hell & Earth
7 Mar 2020 – 10 May 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 16:00
Address
- 2nd Floor, Berwick YHA
- Dewar's Lane
- Berwick-upon-tweed
England - TD15 1HJ
- United Kingdom
Yvonne Parr’s paintings reflect life through landscape and the people around her. They are influenced by what she sees, hears or reads and are filled with black humour, pathos, love and metamorphosis
About
Yvonne Parr was born in 1951 in Newcastle, but her formal art education didn’t begin until 1991, when she attended a foundation course at Chelsea School of Art, followed by a Degree at Byam Shaw School of Art and 3 years postgraduate work at the Royal Academy of Arts. She has exhibited widely and received numerous awards and scholarships, with works held in both public and private art collections.
Yvonne’s paintings reflect life through landscape and the people around her, influenced by things she reads or sees or hears. Her work is filled with black humour, pathos, love and metamorphosis. These elements are usually disguised by colour and by each other; often simultaneously naïve and complex.
Inspirational triggers include episodes of small account, often influenced by cruelty, sadness, pleasure or wicked fun. They may be events she has personally experienced, seen or heard about second or third hand. Unusual perspective and hidden writing often distort and create tension, inviting the viewer to make their own interpretation of what the works portray.
Heaven, Hell & Earth includes works from throughout her artistic career, including paintings inspired by the books of Cormac McCarthy and Patrick White and from time spent living in Istanbul and Berwick-upon-Tweed.
