INSIGHTIn ensuing years she also took on
commissions and tutored art in various
mediums.
“For years I worked with watercolours
- painting many myriads of beautiful
and colourful flowers,” she reveals. “My
favourite floral subject was the Blue
Himalayan Poppy, although I was never
fortunate enough to be able to paint it
from life ... unlike many other studies
picked from my garden or snitched from
someone else’s!”
As well as tutoring watercolours
and mosaics, Mignon snipped, bashed,
glued and grouted away for a couple of
years – attacking anything that stayed
in one place long enough.
“Working with something
‘dimensional’ is like a resting place while
thinking about the next project you are
about to embark on,” she suggests.
Mignon Parker has worked for mass
media magazines, supplying ‘how to do’
projects. She admits there were some fun
projects, as well as some shockers ...
This lady loves to work in different
mediums. She finds it exciting and
challenging to be inspired by beautiful
ancient peeling works of art – such as
fresco – and to recreate this wonderful
artform into more modern works by
using the methods and materials of
the moment instead of waiting months
for traditional liming plasters to cure.
She is convinced that even the great
Michelangelo would approve of her
up-to-date approach.
Mignon has worked with metal leaf,
patinas and rust oxidisation to recreate
the look of heavy iron and copper
plates greened over time. She finds this
direction quite exciting because the
results can differ every time.
“The variation in outcomes forces
me to think past the square and always
take the projects a little further each
time I play with this unpredictable
technique,” she says. “While working
in this medium, I love to use figures ...
especially the curvacious female form.”
Clearly, Mignon Parker did not need
to stay in advertising to maintain the
enjoyment she derives from art. Even a
casual observer can see that everything
this happy artist takes on is definitely
too much fun. n