Fiona Parkinson

Momento Mori

2023

Chance Two by Fiona Parkinson features two perfectly preserved Cymothoe Sangaris or Blood-Red Glider butterfly to create this Two of Hearts desig...

Sphenoid by Fiona Parkinson combines the Blood-red Glider and a Luna Morpho to create a stunning piece which is part of the Memento Mori collection. Na...

Considering the atoms and elements that link us, and have travelled so far to become us, creates a dichotomy of emotions between a deep sense of being a part of something and the rea...

Much of my work is about challenging our natural responses to situations, species and people who may seem somehow different to us. For me (and many others) spiders like these are cha...

Space has always fascinated me, it engages with my inquisitive mind, like I suppose it has done since we’ve been on this planet. It has inspired wonder, mythology and science since the days when the only tools humans had to look on it were their eyes. Now it seems the more that we discover the more awe it has to offer and we’re searching within it for the answers to many of the important questions we have about our own existence. My fascination with it however has also always been a deeply emotional one, like somehow despite so much of it being on an inconceivable scale, I’m somehow connected to it and it somehow reflects my emotions. Often when I think about it I can feel an overwhelming sense of vulnerability and isolation even utter insignificance when faced with its enormity “Look again at that pale blue dot… every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam” Carl Sagan But think again and it can engender emotions of importance, uniqueness and potential, good fortune to think that given its enormity and the sheer improbability of us being here that somehow we are, and we actually are aware of it and we should be thankful that somehow it gave birth to us. “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself” Carl Sagan The Milky Way, our home galaxy is home to up to an estimated 400 billion stars. One in a Billion comprises of 28 perfectly preserved butterfly...

Ziggy by Fiona Parkinson features the stunning Papilio Ulysses – Blue Mountain Swallowtail butterfly to create this piece from her Planets and Space co...

mixed media on paper

Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Ode to Angelo - Malibu". Work is mixed media on D'Arches Aquarelle paper, signed and dated 2021 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA...

Roy DeForest Untitled (Figure with yellow eyes), 1985 mixed media on paper 30 x 44" unique

'Elegance, Good taste, and Confiding love' Original Artwork, Triptych. Framed ready to hang _________________________ Pendulums of fuschia flowers, dancing to rhythms of the afterno...

SOPHIA MILLIGAN 'Transient Beauty' Original Artwork __________________________ The red lily, symbol of passion, love, motherhood, fertility and good fortune. Flashing shafts of sunli...

Locating Your Epiglottis, mixed media collage, 15 x 10 inches (Framed size: 20.5 x 17 inches), $700 Trent Alvey is known as a mixed-media artist who uses painting, sculpture, light ...