Evangeline Dickson Explained

Evangeline Dickson
Birth Name:Evangeline Sladen
Birth Date:31 August 1922
Birth Place:Sheffield, England
Death Place:Wirksworth, Derbyshire
Nationality:British
Known For:Painting
Spouse:John Wanless Dickson, m. 1949-2001, his death

Evangeline Mary Lambart Dickson née Sladen (31 August 1922 – 21 May 2004) was a British landscape artist and painter.

Biography

Dickson was born in Sheffield into a family active in the Salvation Army; her great-grandfather was General William Booth and her great-aunt was Evangeline Booth.[1] After boarding school in Devon, Dickson worked as a nurse and teacher before, in 1960, she and her surgeon husband moved to the village of Westerfield in Suffolk.[1] There she studied with two local artists, Anna Airy and Violet Garrod, and became a prolific artist in her own right.[2] Working in a variety of styles, Dickson painted landscapes and flower pictures in pastels, watercolour and mixed media.[3] Her 1992 exhibition Ancient Places, at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, featured paintings of the pre-historic monuments at Stonehenge, at Avebury and the Uffington White Horse.[3] Her flower paintings illustrated a number of natural history guide books.[2] Dickson exhibited with the Royal Watercolour Society, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, at the Paris Salon and with the Ipswich Art Society.[1] She also had solo shows at the Clarges Gallery, at Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich and at the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Evangeline Dickson . The Independent . 16 June 2004 . Simon Fenwick . 15 March 2022.
  2. Web site: Dickson, Evangeline Mary Lambart. Suffolk Artists. 15 March 2022.
  3. Book: David Buckman. Art Dictionaries Ltd. 2006. Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L . 0-9532609-5-X.