Artist Demonstration – 13 February 2026
Michelle Parsons
Sea Creatures in Acrylics

This artist demo will take place on 13 February 2026 in Market Hill Rooms, Fish Hill, Royston SG8 9LB (map). The demo will start at 7.30pm and end at 9.30pm.
Free for members of Royston Arts Society – Non-members £4.00 payable in cash on the door. No need to book!

Michelle Parsons is a UK based oil painter specialising in organic-based paintings and commissions. Her artwork is often based on drawing marine creatures, such as lobsters, fish, and crabs, although she has also branched out to abstract artwork and portraits.

She is influenced by painters like Gerhard Richter and John Piper, and her art brings together loose brushstrokes, striking impasto marks, bold colours, and texture to create vivid and tactile pieces. 

She uses colour, space, texture and light to embellish her work, with her loose brushstroke and blurred backgrounds contrasting with her penchant for sharp detail and tighter representational mark-making. Talking about her art, she stated: “The longer I paint, the more I realise that my work is all about the composition as a whole. My style has an adaptive reverence for the subject and yet does not rely on it-elevating the forms with bright use of colour and mark-making. The resulting pieces are proud declarations of colour and expression.”

Click here for see some of Michelle’s work