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Tellingly, the leopard in the painting is depicted in moonlight - another Alan Parry trope. Elsewhere in the show, a huge moon looms menacingly over the bathers in The Dipper. It does the same in the beguiling Weekend Retreat paintings.
kneels on a leopard skin chaise longue and stares at a painting of a leopard on the wall behind her. The big cat and the furniture are almost exactly the same shape and colour. Ingenious. Tellingly, the leopard in the painting is depicted in moonlight - another Alan Parry trope Elsewhere in the sho. w,
Alan Parry's wonderfully tranquil paintings shimmer with the warmth of late summer English evenings. Many of them were painted in the heart of England near his home in Worcestershire, where the fruit trees burst into blossom and there's Elgar on the soundtrack.
Jun 6, 2014 · They’re so gorgeous in a painting like White Cloud. Yet there’s also something a little intimidating about the way they crowd in like a marching army. The circle motif Alan clearly loves so much in alliums re-surfaces in Lunar Hares and Kingfisher, where the moon looms majestically in the background.
Alan Parry – born 1948 in Garston, Liverpool – is a sports commentator, concentrating on football and athletics. He has commentated for all four main broadcasters of football in the UK – the BBC, BT Sport, ITV and Sky TV.
A welcome return for Alan Parry, who takes inspiration from previous generations of English rural painters such as Paul Nash. For all his paintings' ambiguity, they remain sumptuous and reveal Alan’s dreamy vision of England and her gardens.
May 28, 2018 · Though one could never define Alan as a surrealist, they do recall some of the stranger work of Paul Nash – and remind us that he is part of a long English ruralist tradition. For all their ambiguity, these are still sumptuous paintings that reveal Alan’s nostalgic vision of England and her gardens.
