Qcc Artist Directory

Monique Parker

With deep emotion, I try to capture sacred images found within various pantheons of spirituality.

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About the Art

Painting for Monique is an act of worship that allows her to be a conduit for the unpredictability and magic of creating something from emptiness. She finds the artistic process to be a deeply personal, intuitive act of mining her interior dimension. Much like Tibetan prayer flags that release holy prayers, her paintings are a way for her to offer blessings to the world. Although she works in a variety of styles and mediums, most of her paintings are bold and colorful expressions of indigenous people, landscapes, animals, and the many forms of the Divine.

Her process relies heavily on her intuition and connection to nature and spiritual energy. She is inspired to paint in unexpected and serendipitous ways that allow her to challenge herself to constantly try new techniques.

Bio

Monique earned an MFA in Creative Writing, a BA in Mass Communications, and advanced teaching certifications in Vedic Chanting and Yoga Therapy. She located to the Questa area from Santa Cruz, CA in 2001. For the past twenty-three years, Monique has dedicated herself to teaching, writing, spiritual studies—and now art. Her paintings are inspired by her many pilgrimages to India, as well as living in NNM with its rugged landscape, diverse cultures, and shifting light. In late August 2024, she will have her first dual shop with prominent artist Albert Anderson Clymer at the Spanish Peaks Arts Council in La Veda, Colorado.

Her paintings have been collected internationally and exhibited throughout the USA, including Art Moziak Santa Fe, Taos Arts Banner Contest, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos Fall Arts Festival, Questa Studio Arts Tour, Millicent Rogers Annual Miniature Show, New Mexico Art League’s Small Works Holiday Show, Colorium Online International Exhibit, San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center, Las Laguna Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA, The Studio Door in San Diego, CA, KBM Art Gallery in Riverside, CA, Tubac Center for the Arts in Tubac, AZ, and the Taos Abstract Artists Collective.