About the Artist
Bel Parsons
Bel Parsons is a self-taught abstract impressionist artist with a practice spanning over 25 years. Deeply connected to the emotional landscape of the human experience, Bel creates work that resonates with authenticity, introspection, and expressive power. Her art is a visual exploration of feeling — often raw, sometimes restrained, always deeply evocative.
Guided by both her surroundings and internal states, Bel’s work traverses a wide stylistic range, from the quiet elegance of monochromatic simplicity to bold, kinetic bursts of colour and movement. Though her approach evolves with each theme she explores, a constant thread of contrast runs through every piece. She often grounds her work with black — as line, shadow, or hidden depth — inviting the viewer to look closer and uncover what lies beneath.
Favouring oil paint for its richness and texture, Bel also incorporates a variety of mixed media — charcoal, oil stick, acrylic, and pencil — intuitively layering materials to echo the inspiration behind each work. Her creative process is fluid and instinctive, shaped by her emotional response to the moment.
Bel’s background in both Arts and Psychology brings a unique depth to her practice. With a profound understanding of people, she approaches each piece not just as a composition, but as a potential connection point. Her collectors often describe an immediate and powerful emotional resonance with her work a recognition, a memory, or a feeling that makes the piece unmistakably theirs.
For Bel, art is not just something to be viewed — it’s something to be felt. And her goal is simple: to create work that moves people.
Down the Rabbit Hole
A solo exhibition into the Artists mind...
In her latest collection Down the Rabbit Hole, independent artist Bel Parsons presents a series of large-scale abstract paintings inspired by the playful chaos of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland.
Through vivid colour, contrast, and movement, the works explore the messy beauty of being human, touching on self-reflection, mental health, identity, and societal expectations.
Down the Rabbit Hole
200x180cm
Oil on Canvas -Black Frame
This piece is a gentle plunge into imagination. Down the Rabbit Hole blends motion and stillness, pulling you through shifting shapes and earthy tones that echo the forest floor and the flicker of a white tail. It’s that strange in-between feeling—like falling and floating all at once—where the world stretches, reality warps, and your thoughts begin to wander into new, unexpected places.
WonderlandInspiration:
Alice falling down the rabbit hole represents a descent into a dream state, a fantasy world, and a journey into the unknown. It symbolizes curiosity, the potential for unexpected adventures, and a shift from the mundane reality of Alice's everyday life.
$4,200.00
Her Metamorphis
100x150cm
Oil on Canvas -Black Frame
Her Metamorphosis speaks to the quiet, powerful journey of becoming. A young woman’s face, veiled in butterflies, captures the delicate tension between concealment and emergence—between who she has been and who she is becoming. Each butterfly in motion reflects the layers of transformation, uncertainty, and selfdiscovery that shape the feminine experience. This piece is a tribute to the in-between stage of life—where youth fades, adulthood begins, and identity slowly unfolds.
WonderlandInspiration:
The blue butterfly, specifically representing the caterpillar/butterfly character Absolem, symbolises Alice's transformation and coming of age. When Absolem appears as a butterfly at the end of the story, it signifies that Alice has grown and matured, embracing a new understanding of herself and the world.
$2,400.00
Same SAME but Different
9 Artworks: 40x50 cm (120x150cm together)
Acrylic & Resin on canvas, Black frame
Same Same but Different is a quiet celebration of inner worlds. Though each form appears alike, their patterns reveal hidden stories—echoing the unseen diversity within our community. This work honours the beauty of neurodivergence and the quiet strength of those navigating life with ASD, ADHD, dyslexia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and more. It’s a reminder that even when we feel alone or different, we’re all connected.
WonderlandInspiration:
The White Rabbit in Wonderland is a symbolic representation of the anxieties and pressures that can accompany navigating the world, particularly the relentless of time and societal expectations.
$2800.00
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Oil on Canvas -Black Frame
They Are All Mad captures the vibrant chaos of mania, the euphoric rush of dopamine, and the dreamlike clarity that comes with the highs. Inspired by the energy of bipolar episodes, ADHD, and psychosis, this piece celebrates the beautiful frenzy of the mind. Like the Hatter says, "the best of us are mad"—sometimes, in the madness, we find magic.
WonderlandInspiration:
The Mad Hatter’s tea party echoes Victorian-era asylum tea gatherings, blending whimsy with unease. Beneath the surface, it reflects the era’s fascination with—and fear of—madness and mental illness. 120x180cm
$2,600.00
Anyway Series
This collection is all about the twists and turns life throws our way — the moments where decisions aren’t clear-cut, and the path ahead isn’t always straight. Each of these three pieces reflects that beautifully messy process of navigating options, emotions, and outcomes.
Any Which Way is also a personal reflection of Bel Parsons’ own journey as a neurodiverse artist — finding her voice in a world that often expects things to be linear and black-and-white. These works celebrate the inbetween, the uncertainty, and the truth that it’s the journey, not the destination, that shapes us most.
WonderlandInspiration:
In Alice in Wonderland, black and white games, particularly the croquet match with the Queen of Hearts, symbolize the clash between logic and absurdity, order and chaos, and societal expectations versus individual freedom. The black element is often overlooked, highlighting how societal structures often prioritize rules and conformity over the whims of imagination.
100x100cm Oil on Canvas Framed in Black
Echoes of Wonderland
268x168cm
Oil on Canvas -Black Frame
Inspired by the whimsical absurdity of Alice in Wonderland, this work plays with scale, shape, and bold, vivid colour to evoke a world where imagination defies logic. Like Wonderland itself, it blurs the line between fantasy and reality — familiar elements appear out of context, colours are heightened, and everything feels more alive, more intense. It’s a visual leap down the rabbit hole, where nothing is quite as it seems, and every detail invites curiosity.
WonderlandInspiration:
Alice’s journey through a world of curious creatures, surreal landscapes, and delightful absurdity reveals the boundless creativity of a child’s mind. It reminds us that through imagination, the impossible becomes possible — rules bend, meaning shifts, and wonder takes center stage. At its heart, the story captures the magic of seeing the world not as it is, but as it could be
$4,200.00
Horizons of Perspective
60 x90 cm each
Horizons of Perspective explores how the mind shapes perception. Though each horizon appears similar, shifts in tone and colour reveal how mood, mindset, or time of life can transform what we see. A single view becomes many - mirroring the subtle, continual changes within ourselves.
WonderlandInspiration:
In "Alice in Wonderland," the horizon serves as a visual representation of Wonderland's unpredictable and often illogical nature. It's the boundary between the known and the unknown, the familiar and the strange, and the path Alice treads towards new experiences and transformations.
$1,800.00 Enquire to purchase works separately
Oil on Canvas - Tasmanian Oak Frame
Intersections Series
In one of Bel Parsons’ signature styles, Intersections delves into the beauty and tension of contrast; black and white, straight and curved, order and chaos. These works are a visual meditation on the moments where paths cross, diverge, or collide; the choices we make, and the identities we carry.
At its core, the series explores duality: self vs. expectation, freedom vs. conformity, fluidity vs. structure. Through bold forms and subtle tension, Bel captures the inner push and pull experienced by many; particularly within the realms of neurodivergence, sexuality, and individuality.
Some works reflect harmony, where opposing forces blend and move together. Others resist, holding space for dissonance and disruption. Across the series, there’s a constant interplay; of shape, contrast, and presence that invites the viewer to consider where their own intersections lie.
WonderlandInspiration:
In Alice in Wonderland, black and white balance can represent a variety of concepts, including duality, innocence, and the contrast between reality and the fantastical. Black and white can symbolize the contrast between good and evil, sanity and madness, or the two sides of a character.
