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.
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]