NOLA PARKER
Montpelier, VT
Nola Parker (b. 1987) is a self-taught painter who lives and works in central Vermont. Her work has been exhibited nationally and has been included in flat file programs with Collar Works and Ortega y Gasset Projects. Her work is in permanent public collection in San Antonio, TX, through the Salud-Arte Public Art Program. She has appeared in publications such as New American Paintings, Aether Art, and Create Magazine. She is represented by Sarah Bouchard Gallery.
Selected Works
![The Acheron
36 x 24 inches
Acrylic on wood
2026 [sold]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69df952ced2431242d7919b8/9b17b508-8710-47f2-8263-c4650a93715e/NolaParker_TheAcheron.jpg)
The Acheron
36 x 24 inches
Acrylic on wood
2026 [sold]
![The Cocytus
36 x 24 inches
Acrylic on wood
2026 [sold]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69df952ced2431242d7919b8/c350ad79-06f8-446c-bce5-6d294b854923/NolaParker_TheCocytus.jpg)
The Cocytus
36 x 24 inches
Acrylic on wood
2026 [sold]
![The Mnemosyne
36 x 24 inches
Acrylic on wood
2026 [sold]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69df952ced2431242d7919b8/0035cc05-bb10-4296-ab14-a8605ce66e44/NolaParker_TheMnemosyne.jpg)
The Mnemosyne
36 x 24 inches
Acrylic on wood
2026 [sold]
The Styx
48 x 36 inches
Acrylic on wood
2026
The Lethe
36 x 24 inches
Acrylic on wood
2026
The Phlegethon
36 x 24 inches
Acrylic on wood
2026
![How to See in the Dark (Acheron)
16 x 12 inches
Acrylic on wood
2025 [sold]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69df952ced2431242d7919b8/dc5b1f61-5513-44a7-b665-2955a20e3881/NolaParker_HowToSeeInTheDark%28Acheron%29.jpg)
How to See in the Dark (Acheron)
16 x 12 inches
Acrylic on wood
2025 [sold]
How Long Have I Been Here? (Lethe)
16 x 12 inches
Acrylic on wood
2026
How to Be a Tree 1
30 x 20 inches
Acrylic on wood
2023
How to Be a Tree 2
30 x 20 inches
Acrylic on wood
2023
Asphodel Grass
18 x 24 inches
Acrylic on wood
2026
Bright Meadow
16 x 12 inches
Acrylic on wood
2023
exhibits
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Under World
Nola Parker
May 23 – June 28, 2026 [link:/under-world]
Artist Statement
Growing up in Vermont, the outdoors was a calming, reflective, and often mystical space for me. This feeling of connectedness with nature has always been a driving force in my life and work. Photographs from my daily life act as anchoring references in my colorful, acrylic landscapes. I often work from a single image but in my new work I use collected photos to create a collage of a new, fictional landscape. I use the Guerra Paint system, mixing single pigments with an acrylic medium to create a matte, yet vibrant paint. While my work can be viewed as an exploration and celebration of the natural world, it also functions as an autobiographical outlet. Through my surroundings I feel out the boundaries of my existence, the spaces that contain me and form my personal geography.
Working with themes of home, belonging, and healing, the landscape offers itself up as a mirror, revealing truths about ourselves and the world around us. Influenced by memory and experience, I aim to create a universe that is both fantastical and familiar, picturing a place not through strict realism but through its personality, mood, or feeling. I'm captivated by both the detail and variety of the natural landscape as well as the suburban spaces where nature and human society converge in a strange dance of balance, submission, or dominance.
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Resides: Montpelier, VT
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2023
NYC Crit Club Advanced Painting & Drawing Critique with Judy Glantzman2021
NYC Crit Club Advanced Painting & Materials with Hilary Doyle2013
B.A. University of Texas at Austin -
2026
Under World, Sarah Bouchard Gallery, Woolwich, ME2024
Dewdrops in the Garden, group exhibition, Hexum Gallery, Montpelier, VT2023
Holding Space, solo exhibition, Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX2022
Flat File 2023, group exhibition, Collarworks, Troy, NY
Flat File 2022, group exhibition, Ortega Y Gasset Projects, New York, NY2021
Transcendental States, group exhibition, Project Gallery V, online2018
20 Landscapes, solo exhibition, Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
Sweet Bowl, group exhibition, Olympia & Fishs Eddy, New York, NY2017
Light, group exhibition, Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX2015
Due East, group exhibition, Big Medium, Austin, TX -
Public Collection, Salud-Arte Public Art Program, University Healthy Systems, San Antonio, TX
Corporate Collection, St. David’s Foundation, Austin, TX
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2023
Create Magazine, Issue No. 342021
CandyFloss Magazine, “The Flora and Fauna Issue”2018
Aether Art, “Nola Parker: 20 Landscapes,” Kathryn Pearce, November2016
Southwest Art Magazine, “21 Under 31,” Bonnie Gangelhoff, September2015
New American Paintings, Issue No. 120 -
2023
Vermont Studio Center Vermont Week Fellow2021
Recipient of VT Arts Council Artist Development Grant2015
Vermont Studio Center Residency -
2023
Working Artist Org. Purchase Award April/May2021
Studio Break Podcast Pro Competition Runner-Up2015
Hunting Art Prize Finalist
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