Evangeline Dickson

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]

• A History and Dictionary of British Flower Painters 1650-1950 by Josephine Walpole (2006), published by Antique Collectors' Club, ISBN 1-85149-504-5