Adrian Parnell was brought up in North Devon and studied at St. Martin’s School of Art and the Slade from 1970–77.

He was an associate member of the Penwith Society, St. Ives, Cornwall and has work in the Tate Gallery’s collection at Kettles Yard, Cambridge.

Adrian has exhibited regularly in London at the RCA British Art Fair, the London Contemporary and galleries in Amsterdam and New York.