Leigh Parry was born in London and went to St Martin's School of Art. He works in oils, watercolours and pastels and has been exhibition for many years, first showing with the Royal Society or British Artists ot the original true RBA gallery in Suffolk Street in 1953, at the Manchester Academy in the same year and at the old Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Gallery in Piccadilly one year later.

Leigh Parry is a Senior member and Trustee of the Pastel Society UK (President 1983-88 initiating the renaissance of that Society during those years after a fallow period: a member of the Society of Equestrian Artists: an Honorary Treasurer in 1993. He served on the board of governors of the Federation of british Artists from 1983-86. He had received a "mention honorable" at the Paris Salon and won a number of awards in the Societies including the Cuneo Medal in the Society of Equestrian Artists, struck in the name of the late President Terence Cuneo CVO OBE and awarded for the most meritorious group of works.

Apart from annual exhibitions with the various societies of which he is a member, he has held one man shows in specialist subjects: mountaineering at the Alpine Gallery London, equestrian and travel the Heritage Gallery in Calgary Canada and in the UK at galleries in the Midlands and London covering hid journeys to Canada, India, China and Tibet. Additionally he a has worked for a number Years with the British Horse Society:he is mentioned in The Dictionary of British Equestrian Artists and is author of articles on equestrian studies

Group shows include: Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, Royal Cambrian Academy, Paris Salon, The National Gallery of Canada, The new English Art Club and the Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries in London, and for a number of years annually at the Llewllyn Alexander gallery as well as other London and provincial Galleries.

In equestrian art Leigh Parry follows a family tradition, which he traces back to his forbear Walter Parry Hodges (1760 - 1845) whose word wad engraved by Henry Alken Senior for the Beaufort Hunt Prints in 1833, Parry himself had been commissioned by the brutish Horse society to paint pictures of the Burghley Horse trials which have been published as limited edition prints, a nice family coincidence in that the Beaufort Hunt had its home at Badminton House and since 1961 the two principal Horse Trials in the UK annual equestrian calendar have been Burghley and Badminton. A recent equestrian commission mow competed had been to paint a series of pictures of their Olympic and other event horses competing at Badminton, Burghley and chatsworth for the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire.

Works by Leigh Parry is in possession of such public bodies as the HSBC Bank plc , Singer and Friidlander Band, Remy Martin, Lincolnshire Museums, Kesteven County council, essex county council, Burghley House, Oundle School, Guy's Hospital and the British Horse Society.