William Parker

My work has an impulsive, spontaneous, energetic feel - by design. My goal is to capture the emotions of the moment of creation; to make pictures that are raw and immediate, and that transmit an energy that is equal to that with which they are made.
I paint mainly with acrylic, using a wide variety of materials – charcoal, pencils, markers, spray paint, oil sticks, latex and enamel paints - for additional mark-making. I try to work quickly and with abandon, resisting the urge to judge my progress too soon. Ideas and marks are put down then often painted over, only to have new ones made in their place. Mistakes or changes of mind are often frantically scribbled out and reconsidered.
I want to invite the viewer to see and share the entire history of the painting’s birth. Warts and all.

I am an abstract expressionist painter.
My work is inspired primarily by Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn and current artists including Reginald Sylvester II, Eddie Martinez and Joe Bradley.

I have been an abstract expressionist painter since 2018.
I am primarily self-taught, although I have taken foundational courses at Queen Elizabeth Park - Oakville, Dundas Valley School of Art and Visual Arts Mississauga.

2021
Riverdale ArtWalk Show
Erebus and Hemera selected for inclusion in juried Visual Arts Mississauga show

2022
Industrial Strength selected for inclusion in ‘Why Do You Create?’, juried Visual Arts Mississauga Show
Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre Corridor Gallery, Solo Exhibition
Everything Was Perfect featured in SaatchiArt ‘New This Week’
Riverdale ArtWalk Show
Oakville Art In The Park Show
Leslie Grove ‘Life In Colour’ 4-person Exhibition
Queen West Art Crawl Show

2023
Riverdale ArtWalk Show
TOAF – Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
Ontario Society of Artists ‘Colour Splash’ Show
Queen West Art Crawl Show
VAM Art In The Park Show
Cabbagetown Art and Craft Fair