Landscape and figure painter, mostly plein air, born in Blaenau Ffestiniog, in what is now Gwynedd, where he continued to live. Parry went to Manchester College of Art but “left disillusioned after the first year.” For years, Parry “in order to survive doing what I need to do, had to paint subjects that stood the best chance of selling. I hated it and think of those years as wasted time.” He also illustrated several books. Parry continued to take on part-time labouring, working in slate quarrying and forestry, to enable him concentrate on “making a visual record of my country and people as I see it and them.” He had several library solo exhibitions, including National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2001, which holds his work. Good examples of his atmospheric landscapes were included in Welsh Painters Past and Present, organised in 2005 by John Davies Fine Paintings at Upper Swell, Stow-on-the-Wold.