Alla Parsons is a Russian-born artist living and working in Hawaii. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Minnesota State University Moorhead, and Master of Fine Art degree from Georgia Southern University. 

    She was a full time Art Professor on the Mainland. Now she teaches art part-time in Hawaii - her "forever home". Her work includes landscape, portraits, and still life, she works in oil, watercolors and mixed media. Her art was exhibited nationally and internationally, have received awards and included in private collections across the US, Canada, Russia, Europe, Northern Africa and South America. She likes to travel the world and visit art museums with her husband Michael and paint on Plein Air. 

    Her favorite art style is Magic Realism – art in which some mystery or secret seems to be hidden within the subject matter, the objects of everyday life are emphasized in new and unfamiliar ways.