About Kim
Kim Parrent is a Canadian artist whose portraits combine exposed canvas, loose rendering, metallic illumination, glitter and bold fluorescent colour.
Kim Parrent · Kim Static
Portraiture with rock-and-roll voltage.
Kim Parrent is a Canadian artist whose portraits combine exposed canvas, loose rendering, metallic illumination, glitter and bold fluorescent colour.
Kim’s work is informed by art history, music, spectacle and a lifelong fascination with larger-than-life cultural figures. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Her portraits turn wrestlers, musicians, actors and cultural icons into charged studies of memory, mythology and presence.
Process · Paint · Surface
Inside the studio.
The work moves from drawing and exposed ground through layered paint, metallic illumination, fluorescent colour and hand-finished detail.
Painting timelapse
Watch a painting come to life.
SOME OF MY TIMELAPSE