Jonathan Parker is a British artist born in Belfast (1968), who lives and works in London with his wife and family.
He makes portraits and fine art compositions that combine figure, interior and landscape.
Educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, London (1982-86) and Camberwell School of Art, London (1987), he then lived and painted in Zaragoza, Spain (1988/89) and undertook a screen print apprenticeship at the Taller Rene Portocarrero in Havana (1991). He graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University) in 1992 with a degree in Fine Art and won the Royal Academy Richard Ford Award in the same year. He has had a studio in London since 1993 where he painted his first portrait commission for the National Trust in 1994. There are thirteen of his artworks* in the UK’s National Art Collection.

Exhibitions :
Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts Foundation Show 1987
Can Pilis (Barcelona) Bocetos 1988
Kingston Hill Art Gallery Inauguration 1989
Kingston Hill Art Gallery The Three From King's 1990
El Fondo de Bienes Culturales (Havana) Dibujos 1991
Whiteleys Group Show 1993
Gir Art (Barcelona) J.H.Parker 1995
Open Studio Drawings and Paintings 1995
The Clock Tower Wallington Conversation Pieces 1998
Mercury Gallery Summer Show 1997
Mercury Gallery New Paintings 1998
Mercury Gallery New Paintings 2000
John Martin Gallery Winter Show 2001
Bohun Gallery Painters Of Promise 2001
Henley Royal Regatta Art Gallery 2003/04/05/06/07/08/23/24
Shire Pottery Gallery The Tidecatcher 2005
Cannizaro House The Hang 2008
King's College School Cotman Gallery On the Corner 2008
Robert Phillips Gallery Thames and the City 2010
Piers Feetham Gallery Thames Group Show 2010
River and Rowing Museum Wind and Fire, Earth and Space, Water 2010/11
Lloyds Private Bank Mayfair The Neptune Collection 2011
Wallington, Northumberland Time and Tide Wait For No Man 2012
Durham Centre Visual Arts Culture Familiarity And Mystery 2017 (to view catalogue click here)
Lloyds Private Bank Mayfair Private View Prelude - Familiarity and Mystery 2017
Lloyds Private Bank Mayfair Flights From Gravity 2017
ArtBAB International Art Fair 2019
Brocket Gallery The Isolation Series 2020
ArtOnAPostcard 2021/23/24
Brocket Gallery Little Western 2023

* including George on the Wrekin, seen by 1.5 million people since 1997, about which the artist gave a National Portrait Gallery Webinar (2022)
To view video click here.

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