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Brad "Tiki Shark" Parker
Aloha Tiki Tribe! Welcome to my new website showcasing all my art over the years.
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"The Sunken Tiki was the first painting I did after I permanently moved to the Island of Hawaii. Only the ninth gallery piece I ever painted. The idea came to me while I was snorkeling along the Kona-Kohala coast. I was appreciating the bright yellow tangs - the most common local reef fish in Hawaii schooling around the reef. They moved and took shapes as a group. They're so bright you can see them clearly from the shore as they swim beneath the waves, glimmering as lovely as tropical flowers. My imagination saw them as a Hawaiian Lei draped around the neck of a sunken tiki, hugging an object to avoid the cartoon eel/snake; my own made up undersea menace. The eel-snake protects a lost chest of pirate treasure. My first Hawaii born painting was born, all I had to do was swim to shore, get to my studio, and put brush to canvas." - Brad Parker
The original painting is acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20".
The Giclee on Canvas is a Limited Edition item. Please contact info@tikishark for pricing.
Visit product page →Brad "Tiki-Shark" Parker is a "Tiki-Artist" working in the pop-surrealistic style of the "Low-Brow" Art movement. Learn more about Brad Parker.
Tiki Shark giclee's are created with archival, fade resistant inks on museum quality paper. Printed in Kamuela, on the Island of Hawaii. All prints are certified as authentic, signed by the artist, and guaranteed as represented.
For more information, please contact info@tikishark.
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This piece is about environment, sunsets, and stargazer flowers I bought at a local Farmer's Market in Kona.
The man who grew them hand-picked his very best for me after I told him I was going to use them as a reference in a painting.
The waterfall was what I remembered from a trip to the other side of the island to see Akaka Falls.
The wave I witnessed over and over as I contemplated the perfect rush and sweep of water at my local surf spot.
Other SizesVisit product page →Brad "Tiki-Shark" Parker is a "Tiki-Artist" working in the pop-surrealistic style of the "Low-Brow" Art movement. Learn more about Brad Parker.
Tiki Shark giclee's are created with archival, fade resistant inks on museum quality paper. Printed in Kamuela, on the Island of Hawaii. All prints are certified as authentic, signed by the artist, and guaranteed as represented.
For more information, please contact info@tikishark.
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This painting the 16th "Mystic Tiki Painting" I created. It is my "Hawaiianna" take on a classical painting. "Der Wanderer uber den Nedlmeer" or "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" was painted in 1818 by German romantic artist Casper David Fridrich. The meaning conveyed in that famous painting is self-reflection as the man stands atop a mountain and looks down into an ocean of clouds.
I changed the hiker into a surfer watching the ocean waves. Reflection on his inner self, or his urging his mastery over the powerful sea? I placed a Tiki image in the sky and many ancient idols beneath the traveler's feet. This could mean there is a supernatural element to his journey, inward, and outward.
Most surfers I know have a keen, almost spiritual attachment to the sea. However, I try to leave conception of the art to the individual viewer as each person should give the art their own personal meaning.
Other Sizes
The Wanderer - Canvas Giclee
12" x 24" - $1195
The Wanderer - Mini Canvas Giclee
8" x 12" - $395Visit product page →Brad "Tiki-Shark" Parker is a "Tiki-Artist" working in the pop-surrealistic style of the "Low-Brow" Art movement. Learn more about Brad Parker.
Tiki Shark giclee's are created with archival, fade resistant inks on museum quality paper. Printed in Kamuela, on the Island of Hawaii. All prints are certified as authentic, signed by the artist, and guaranteed as represented.
For more information, please contact info@tikishark.
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The Exotic Traveler was painted for a specific reason, I was asked to paint something for the cover of "Tiki Magazine". This was a very big deal for me! I wanted to show a classic looking Tiki. I wanted it to vein a very classic "Hawaiianna" setting a beautiful night scene of a secluded beach, a perfect wave, with a small enchanted tiki hut on a beach in the background. I carefully placed in exotic orchids to frame the foreground.
Then, I wanted a touch of the fantastic; I wanted to show something about local superstitions we have on the big Island of Hawaii about spirit-balls glowing in the jungle. A few dance around the hut, then one rises up out of the sand right in front of the TIKI. What is it? Good question! As the title suggests maybe it's a visitor from far away enjoying the beauty of Hawaii, an inter-dimensional tourist? Maybe a dear departed loved on watching over family? Or maybe just a trick of the light and the glowing lights you sometimes see in the jungle at night are nothing at all. These questions are best answered by the viewer.
Visit product page →Brad "Tiki-Shark" Parker is a "Tiki-Artist" working in the pop-surrealistic style of the "Low-Brow" Art movement. Learn more about Brad Parker.
Tiki Shark giclee's are created with archival, fade resistant inks on museum quality paper. Printed in Kamuela, on the Island of Hawaii. All prints are certified as authentic, signed by the artist, and guaranteed as represented.
For more information, please contact info@tikishark.
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Kona Oceanfront Gallery
In the heart of Kailua-Kona is the Kona Oceanfront Gallery, the premiere gallery to show the award-winning work of renowned artist Brad "Tiki Shark" Parker. Combining pop surrealism with Hawaiiana, Brad's art is simultaneously vintage tiki culture and contemporary cartoon realism. Visit the Kona Oceanfront Gallery and explore the avant-garde tiki art world of Brad "Tiki Shark" Parker.
