Graydon parrish paintings of nature
Paintings of nature and landscape.
Graydon parrish paintings of nature
Graydon Parrish
American painter (born 1970)
Graydon Parrish (born April 3, 1970) is a realist painter living in Austin, Texas.
He is both trained in and an exponent of the atelier method which emphasizes classical painting techniques.
Life
Graydon Parrish was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but spent the majority of his childhood in East Texas.
His parents, collectors of American and European nineteenth-century art, exposed him to painting at a young age and influenced his choice to pursue an academic figurative style.
Parrish attended the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and graduated in 1988.
Unable to find further classical art training, he learned of the newly formed New York Academy of Art in the summer of that year created by Andy Warhol and Stuart Pivar.[1] There, Parrish joined other students who have become leading figures in the classical art revival, including Jacob Collins, founder of the Grand Central Academy of