Parvin studied at Chouinard Art Institute in LosAngeles, known today as the California Institute of the Arts, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Moving from story illustration, to advertising illustration, to fashion illustration, and finally to fine art has been an interesting and rewarding journey for Parvin. Her time at Chouinard allowed her to master painting figures and landscapes. Her portfolio of figure drawings provided her with a position in an advertising company in Massachusetts immediately upon graduation.

Advertising illustration demanded discipline in meeting publishing deadlines while producing imaginative artwork. The experience was invaluable in helping Parvin evolve into an artist producing museum quality art. She eventually moved from the East Coast, left the advertising world, and returned to fine arts.

Parvin does not do preliminary sketches or thumbnails prior to starting a painting; she dives headfirst, usually by pouring paint directly on the canvas. The intimidation of a blank canvas never deters her.

Microsoft and Boeing executives are among those who collect her work worldwide. Her paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Arizona, California, Florida, Montana, New York Oregon, and Washington, as well as five major museums in China as part of a U.S. – China Cultural Exchange Program arranged by the National Gallery in Washington D. C.

Six years ago Parvin switched from working on canvas to creating art on her computer screen, and wrote: “The new ‘ism’ in art might be Digitism. Digital painting on a computer may turn out to be the most creativity expanding “ism” in the history of painting. The digital process offers artists opportunities to take more risk and to  experiment with a variety of techniques which are not as easily achievable with traditional painting methods.

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