Like haiku poems, Vicken Parsons' small paintings articulate form, image and atmosphere to generate a profound visual and psychic impact. They are at once painterly, sculptural and architectonic. Iwona Blazwick, 2005*In early 2012 the Alan Cristea Gallery will present the first solo show in London for over twelve years of the British born artist, Vicken Parsons. The show will consist of around twenty new works and will be accompanied by a fully illustratecd catalogue with introduction by leading psychoanalyst and writer Darian Leader. Parsons makes small, intimate paintings of landscape and architectural spaces which move from figuration to abstraction with quiet ease. Made with thin layers of oil paint on thick plywood panel, the works have a three-dimensional, object-like quality. Often grey or monochrome, the paintings are sometimes hit with a flash of colour, of cornflower blue, bright white or electric yellow which almost seems to fluoresce. At times, however, they simply retreat into deep, dark corners.