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Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions.
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Welcome to Parkerart website, featuring the paintings and artworks of Colin Parker and Colleen Parker.
Parkerart website is managed by Jane Parker, daughter of Colin Parker and Colleen Parker.
The website is designed to:
- Showcase paintings by Colin Parker and Colleen Parker, demonstrating their diverse talent
- Feature new and historical works by each artist
- Provide up to date biographical information
- Provide a contact point to the artists
- Provide a service to potential buyers of investment art
The Parker Family in Sydney
Colin Parker and Colleen Parker currently live in Leura, in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia.
Colin and Colleen Parker were both raised primarily in the North Shore of Sydney, NSW.
Colleen and Colin Parker, 1963.
The Parker family has been interactive with Sydney’s art world for almost a century.
S.A Parker Framing Works
Colin Parker’s grandfather was Sydney Albert Parker, founder of SA Parker Framing works.
SA Parker provided quality frames to the artists and galleries of Sydney, and many still hang in the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW).
Sydney Albert Parker purchased Tesla Framing works in 1917, changing the name to S.A Parker Framing in 1920, going on the become the leading framers for Sydney and many Australian artists. The proximity of the framing business to The Bulletin and artists’ studios was the reason SA Parker Framers became the biggest suppliers of quality frames to the art community. Many of the frames made for those artists still hang today in the Art Gallery of NSW. Parker frames known grace the works of George W. Lambert, Hans Heyson, Grace Cossington-Smith and Margaret Preston. A record of S.A Parker framing was made in a recent book published by the Art Gallery of NSW after the donation of historical records and photographs to the AGNSW by the Parker family.
SA Parker Pty.Ltd. was renamed Parker Galleries, and still is owned and operated today by members of the Parker family within the Rocks Precinct of NSW, providing quality art supplies to Australian artists.
Colin Parker was raised in an environment of artists and creative people. Colin Parker’s mother Helen Parker (nee Seisler) came to Australia from Estonia after WW1, to meet Clarendon Parker, son of SA Parker, marry and settle in Killara on Sydney’s North Shore.
Other artists in the Parker family (past and present) are:
Clarendon (Clarie) Parker – Clarie was a watercolourist, mostly painting traditional rural scenes. His paintings were usually signed “C.Parker”.
Clarie Parker at work in Parker Galleries
Dudley Parker – Younger brother to Clarie Parker, Dudley was well known for his landscape pictures of Australia. His most common medium was oil paint.
Adrian Parker – Adrian is Colin Parker’s son. Adrian paints in a range of styles and mediums.
Helen Parker (nee Seisler) – Helen was best known for her decorative enamel works, however did do some still life painting early in her life. Early works may be signed “H.Seisler”.
Helen Parker, drawing pencil on paper by Thea Procter, 1929.