November 2025
Make, Then See
Sean Bw Parker
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Sean Bw Parker
Sean Bw Parker (b. 1975, Exeter, UK) is a British artist, writer, and musician whose practice spans painting, poetry, cultural theory, and social justice reform.
He holds an MA in Fine Art from the University for the Creative Arts (2003). Having lived and worked in Istanbul for ten years, Parker has published several books and music albums, given a TED Talk, curated and performed at art festivals, and exhibited widely—from London’s South Bank to New York’s Times Square.
His painting practice blends abstraction and figuration, combining cultural memory, music, and immediacy. Guided by intuition, Parker’s creative approach follows the principle “Make, then see what I’ve made,” embracing spontaneity and subconscious expression in an age dominated by digital precision.
Dead Sparrow At DFS
Oil pastel, acrylic and mixed media (2025)
Impression of photo of a dead sparrow outside the DFS store in Hove.
Wings 1979
Watercolours and mixed media (2024)
Impression of Paul McCartney's band Wings.
The Trial
Impression of the trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
Oil pastel, acrylic and mixed media (2025)
Aideen McQueen
Oil pastel, acrylic and mixed media (2025)
Portrait impression of the Irish comedienne.
Sean Bw Parker (MA) is a British artist, writer and musician specialising in painting, poetry, cultural theory and justice reform.
After gaining a Masters degree in Fine Art from the University for the Creative Arts in 2003 he lived and worked in Istanbul for ten years, has published a number of books
and albums, performed at or curated festivals, given a TED talk, had paintings exhibited from
London’s South Bank to New York’s Times Square, and won awards for his work. He was born in Exeter in 1975 and currently lives on the West Sussex coast.
More About Sean Bw Parker
While I’m happy to write about other people’s creative work, writing about my own feels somehow disingenuous, whether that’s about painting or music. It’s so much more interesting when the viewer gives you their own interpretation. That said, the cultural milieu influences my portraits, the paint itself influences my abstracts, and it’s all at its best when I bring them together successfully - though success is a famously subjective term
in art.
I love the process of painting, and that having its own communicative style, rather than trying to find words to describe it. I try to add whatever is happening in the present moment to ‘the world of art’, in my own style. My work in painting (and poetry) tends to be: 'Make, then see what I've made' – concept follows production, via the subconscious - and my new motto is: If it doesn’t look like it could have been made by AI, then it’s ‘successful’ enough.
—— Sean Bw Parker