Gaynor Dickeson DipSBA(Dist) SFP is a distinguished and award winning botanical artist. She works in watercolour, coloured pencil and graphite and has pictures in collections in Europe, the USA and Australia. Gaynor has taught widely and continues to teach in the UK.

 

She welcomes commissions, sells original paintings, limited edition giclée prints and cards.

 

Gaynor was born in the UK, but lived 25 years of her adult life in Norway. After school the choice was Art School or Nursing. Nursing won but she still kept up her artistic interests.

 

In Norway, Gaynor developed her drawing and painting skills, leaning towards ornithology. At this time she worked with Stavanger Museum which loaned her bird skins so that she could portray bird plumage in detail. She had her pictures in several successful exhibitions in Norway through the 1970s and 80s. Following this she had her own exhibitions in Los Angeles in 1984, and in Stavanger in 1990. She taught in many Norwegian towns, from Kristiansund in the North to  Kristiansand in the South. In 1984, whilst in Los Angeles she taught there too.

 

Gaynor moved back to the England in 1996 and now lives in West Sussex. Here, in 2005 she became interested in botanical illustration, working in watercolour, graphite and increasingly in coloured pencil.

 

As an active member of both the Society of Botanical Artists and the Society of Floral painters, Gaynor exhibits regularly and has contributed with demonstrations at their main exhibitions. Additionally, she has taken part in exhibitions in Lucca (Italy), Palmengarten, Frankfurt (Germany), and with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in 2011 winning a coveted Silver Grenfell medal. This joins her growing collection of awards.

 

Gaynor teaches weekly botanical art classes locally and has workshops about once a month. Her students tell her that they are improving their botanical art skills in greater measure than they thought possible. Being able to contribute to other people's joy in creating their own images from botanical life, gives Gaynor as much a thrill as she experiences when completing a painting herself. As the classes and workshops are deliberately small, she can give the attention and advice that each student needs, be they new beginners or experienced artists.

 

Gaynor's students tell her that they look and see the world around them with completely new eyes. How wonderful! There is an endless supply of subjects all year round. She will never get bored and hopes you won't either.

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