Marcy Parks

I am a self-taught artist (although, I prefer to say informally educated) and writer living in Northeast Tennessee. I create bold and feminine abstract paintings that tell a story of healing.

My works are a reflection of my experiences as a woman and mother and are a way of processing the tangled webs of stories I have inherited around womanhood, femininity, and motherhood. The physicality of my process, involving gestural movements and marks made on the surface with my bare hands, serves as a form of somatic therapy, a way to move the pent up energy I often feel as a result of my experiences, giving my work its characteristic bold and energetic presence. It is through the process of creation that the tangles of stories begin to loosen and I find the heart of the narratives that have driven me, consciously or otherwise, and like Hansel and Gretel following a trail of crumbs, I make my way back out of the woods to be greeted by the abstract forms, lines, and marks that map the journey of my healing.