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Painting the Details

Artist Monique Parry Depicts Nature
Story By rica LewiS | PhotoS By roB wiLKerSoN

While other artists paint scenes, Monique Parry paints
details. Not the drowsy sun slinking into a desert landscape,
but the prickled, green spines of a cactus in the sand. Not a
curious forest where twisted trees stretch and sway, but a single
hand of branches bearing a sleeping nest of speckled eggs. She
hones in, painting slices of life and light as she sees it.
"My paintings are intimate," Parry said.
A hobbyist photographer, her father viewed the world as
she does. A framed photo he took of an insect resting in the
curve of a leaf is displayed in her studio.
"He shot the details," she said.
Parry's mother also was an artist. A painting of ripe fruit
sits on a kitchen counter with dimpled skins beckoning.
"She painted this," Parry said. "Isn't it stunning?"
Growing up, Parry's household was creative, and as a
child she dabbled with paints. Her full-time career as a painter
began in the mid-80s, when she took classes and workshops
and did outdoor shows with her husband, Ron. Also a painter,
Ron's work fills walls in their Village of Charlotte home. A
signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists,
much of Ron's work is of raging waters and foaming seas.
"I sit back now and stare at the work he did," Parry said.
"What an incredible artist he was."

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