Updates from Steevie Jane Parks, Fine Art
July 31, 2025
I’ve just updated this 36x36 inch acrylic painting, and given it a new name. The new name is ‘Everything Will Eventually Work Out’. Hope you like it!
July 17, 2025
I’ve spent the last ten days sailing around Iceland. Now that I’m in my way back home to North Carolina, I plan to turn all of my best Iceland photos into dramatic abstract landscapes. Stay tuned for my weekly updates to see how my new abstracts are coming along.
June 26, 2025
This week I am updating yet another one of my old paintings. This one is an oil, and uses a single medium sized palette knife. Knives are infinitely easier to clean and allow an artist to spend more time painting, making the whole process quicker, easier and in some ways, more relaxing. Anyway, that’s just my opinion. Thanks again for stopping by to see what’s happening in my art studio this week!
June 19, 2025
I'm painting something a little bit different this week. I found an old photo on my iphone of Bougainvilleas under a porch from one of our yearly trips to Ocracoke Island. I changed around a few things to better fit the memory I had in my imagination. This 36x36 inch oil painting is a combination of the photograph and my imagination. It's not quite finished but the feeling is definitely there. Thanks for reading my post! Steevie
June 5, 2025
I’ve been re doing a bunch of old oil paintings this month. This one used to be all blue and was called ‘Serenity in Blue’. It’s new name is ‘Peaceful Morning from a Campsite’ . Re doing old paintings gives them a second lease on life. I only keep the one’s I am the happiest with. The rest all get recycled.
May 22, 2025
This is my most recent painting. It used to be called ‘Grace’. I gave it a total makeover last week and today, it’s new name is ‘Chance Encounters’. I hope you enjoy it.
May 15, 2025
Hello and Happy Thursday! This 36 x36 inch oil painting has had many iterations.. In 2022 I called it 'Gratitude', in 2024 I renamed it 'Alla Primavera' and just last night I redid parts of it and have renamed it 'Clover Garden with Bubbles'. The name changes follow a progression from expressing a vague feeling, to creating an image that is more grounded in the earth and then putting my focus on very simple things like clovers with dew bubbles on them. Feel free to share a simple joy you have experienced this week in the comment section.
May 8, 2025
I would like to extend my heartfelt thank you to my friend Jessica Villagrana, an incredibly lovely human being, as well as one of my favorite art patrons, who recently purchased ‘Underwater Floral with Fish’ . This is a heavily textured 36x36 inch mixed media painting on gallery wrapped canvas. Thank you Jessica for once again significantly brightening up my spirits and helping to give me the courage to keep on painting and attempting to sell what I create!
May 1, 2025
This 30x40 Mixed Media Collage was created on a large piece of foam board. It started as an exercise from a water media workshop that I took from a local artist in 2015. At first, it seemed like a pointless exercise, cutting up scraps of newspaper and pictures from magazine and haphazardly gelling them onto the board. However, I soon found myself fascinated as I experimented with various textures, and colors. Eventually, I started seeing a colorful landscape, which eventually turned into a woman wearing a head dress. Can you see her?
April 17, 2025
After finding my mother’s old book of Gustav Klimt prints while cleaning out our garage to make room for 30 small artworks for an upcoming art auction, I created the above 12x12 collages using two or three of the actual prints. It was a lot of fun for me, and, if I don’t say so myself, they all turned out pretty nicely! They are a bit more representational than my typical work. You can thank my mother and Gustav Klimt for that!
April 10, 2025
I purchased the above beads from Michaels sometime last spring, thinking that I would use them for making some more mixed media collages. I hid them in a large plastic box under a huge pile of fabric scraps, so that they would not get misplaced. A full year later, I was asked to donate beads for an art activity event, and immediately went to look for my stash of hidden beads. But, I couldn't find them, because after a year went by, I had accumulated five or six more plastic boxes of fabric. Lesson learned.
March 27, 2025
Greetings from Pittsboro, N.C. This week, I have been experimenting with using metallic fabrics, as well as metallic acrylics on an 18 x18 inch gallery wrapped canvas. As you can see, the textures are extremely rich and shiny. I love to create colorful abstracts that inspire each viewer to see something slightly different. This obsession of mine probably comes from 35 years of practicing as a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice. I also love to let my own mind wander where it will. What do you see in the above painted fabric collage?
February 20, 2025
In light of all of the recent turmoil in the world, I decided to create a large 30x40 inch acrylic painting to celebrate the simple joy of being near a lake at night. At first I thought of the scene as taking place in North Carolina and calling it ‘North Carolina Sunset’. But it can really take place almost anywhere. This painting comes from my imagination. It is not meant to look real, only to suggest something real. For this reason, I will hereby refer to this painting as ‘Lake at Night’.
January 16, 2025
Happy 2025 from Pittsboro, N.C. It's been quite a bit colder than usual here in North Carolina, and I have been spending a lot of time indoors preparing myself for the coming year. Pictured here is a 30x30 oil painting called 'Serenity in Blue'. It is meant to inspire a sense of awe and magic about winter, snow, ice, trees and water. My husband Jeff and I will be in Iceland for ten days in July for our first European vacation together. I look forward to taking many photos and turning them into abstract paintings! Happy New Year to All!