Peter Dickison, American Artist (b.1960)
Painting the mesmerizing beauty of nature, Peter Dickison’s inspirations range from architectural landscapes to the innumerable configurations of clouds to the enchantment of a forest. He captures in oil paintings the timeless feeling of historic edifices, forest gardens with their woodland creatures and the silky textured skies at his studio in Tiverton, RI.
Native of Rhode Island, Peter studied painting at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, graduating in 1982. He continued his study at the Yale University Summer School for Art, and the Parson’s School of Design Graduate Program in Painting. Dickison was then studio assistant to the artist Nell Blaine (1922-1996), whose exuberant spirit for life and painting was a strong influence. As Assistant Teacher for Drawing with the Cleveland Institute of Art in Lacoste, France, he worked with drawing professor Leonard Stokes, taught landscape and figure drawing, and painted prolifically in the landscape of Provence. As writer Laurence Hazell once commented on Dickison’s work, “his central intuition is that human activity is framed by nature, but that human understanding fabricates the landscape.”
Peter has exhibited at the Prince Street Gallery and the Painting Center in New York City, SUNY Purchase Art Gallery, the Newport Art Museum, Crowell’s Fine Art and Gallery X in New Bedford and Deblois Gallery in Newport. He has taught painting, drawing and portraiture at the Newport Art Museum. He is based in Tiverton Four Corners, RI, where his work is frequently represented at Tiffany Peay Jewelry and Healing Arts.