PETER DICKISON portfolio
The Rhône Valley of France
The Rhône Valley is one of the truly beautiful places. It is home to vineyards, olive trees, delicious goat cheese, and a landscape that is unimaginably beautiful. My first glimpse was in May of 1989, when I took a teaching assistant job at Lacoste School of the Arts...
Last Summer Rose
During the last few days before the September equinox, this rose bloomed in my yard. The red and white rose hybrid, “Scentimental”, was planted by my great aunt Anna Dunfey. She planted it around 1990 at her home in Newport, Rhode Island, in the Point district. It is...
Memory, Fantasy
2021, oil on linen, 35x21 in. Painted between May and November, 2021, this canvas illuminates the potential in a canvas painted over a period of time for that canvas to encapsulate the artist's perception of life events during its making. This painting unfolds, seems...
Nature’s Primal Sanity
2021, oil on panel, 12x12 in. Buy $1000. Deep forest, flowing water, and great leaves of Japanese Coltsfoot (Petasites japonicus) shuddering from the moving air. Peaceful as well as magical, this place harbors birds, bugs and unseen life forms. The filtered light of a...
The Opened Gate
2021, oil on panel, 12x9 in. Buy $1000. Painted on the day of September 25 during the first Tiverton Four Corners Plein Air Paint Out, this slightly mysterious look into a garden with a very worn fence and gate captured the attention of the judge. Curator Emeritus of...
To tell of how the Sun rose
To Tell of How the Sun Rose : 2021, oil on panel, 10x8in./25x20cm. Buy $1800 Orange ranunculus with yellow and green center inspire me to think of a rising sun. This painting inspired the editor of The Bay magazine as well, and was featured on the September, 2021...
I’ll Fetch Thee brooks from Spotted Nooks
2021, oil on panel, 10x8in. In March when the water was flowing, this little brook was shining golden and reflecting the blue sky in such beautiful combinations that I painted this in homage. There is something wonderful about the water rippling by, and seeing in it...
Love, that is the Pulse of all
Love that is the Pulse of All : 2021, oil on panel, 6x6in./15x15cm. Sold
Upon a Lilac Sea
Upon a Lilac Sea : 2021, oil on panel, 12x12in./30x30cm.Buy $1800 I created this studio painting as the lilac trees were in bloom this spring (2020). Lilac season in the Northeast is an intoxicating time. My friends down south say they do not see many, as Lilacs...