Kevin Parsons

I work primarily in watercolor because it mirrors how I experience the world—fluid, layered, and responsive. I’m less interested in control than I am in conversation: between pigment and water, intention and chance, movement and stillness. Often, I don’t know where a piece is going when I begin, and that uncertainty is part of the work. Time disappears in the layering. The process becomes an escape, a place to breathe.

I don’t believe a painting is ever truly finished. There’s always another layer, another shift, another way it could speak. What matters to me is knowing when to release it—when the piece has said enough.

That philosophy extends beyond my personal practice. I believe artists need spaces where they feel safe to explore, fail, learn, and belong. That belief led me to create this nonprofit art studio—a shared home for artists to collaborate, exhibit their work, and grow together. Preserving the historic building that houses the studio is part of that same commitment: honoring what came before while making room for what’s next.

My work—both on paper and in community—is about creating space. Space to flow. Space to connect. Space to belong.