Ocean / Neruda
30" x 22" gouache and charcoal on paper
Collection of the Artist

Catherine Parker's work can be seen at:

Art Dialogue
One Linwood Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14209
(716) 885 2251

Meibohm Fine Arts
478 Main St.
East Aurora, NY 14052
(716) 652 0940

Vern Stein Galleries
5747 Main St.
Williamsville, NY 14221
716 626 5688

Prices on request:
Catherine Parker
[716] 886-3240
email: cathp@verizon.net

Over the years Parker's work has grown increasingly abstract. Forms have become simpler, brush strokes have become bolder, and colors have become more intuitive. An omnipresent moon in her night paintings is haunting in the same way that Edvard Munch's reflected moon dominates The Dance of Life . . .

Nancy Weekly, Theme and Variations:
The Art of Catherine Parker

In Parker’s capable hands, landscape elements--trees, flowers, cliffs, clouds, suns, moons, water and birds--are highly condensed things that suggest a whole imaginative spectrum of shifting and intertwining metaphors. As Parker moves toward greater abstraction, it is a symbolic language that has grown remarkably in its ability to bridge between observed phenomena and the associative power of raw shape.

. . . . she forcefully strikes out into remarkably personal territory where the ordinary becomes the extraordinary and the mundane begins to tremble with odd mystic evocations.
What gives Parker her unique vision is her unobtrusive bridging between what the eye sees and the mind imagines.


Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News

Wednesday, July 22nd 7:00PM
Talking Leaves Bookstore
3158 Main Street
Buffalo, NY. 14214

“Always a Rose”

A book with CD documenting the collaboration of Roland Martin and Catherine Parker.

The poetry of Pablo Neruda, Music by Roland Martin and Paintings by Catherine Parker.

A song cycle for Soprano, Tenor, Viola and Piano.

We’ll all be there to sign books, Janz Castelo, Cristen Gregory, Ron Martin, Catherine Parker and Jeffrey Porter. If you have already purchased one, you could come by and say “HI” and listen to the performance.