Gordon Dickson
Gordon Dickson is a full time artist living in Yackandandah, North East Victoria. He is best known for his stunning, emotive watercolours, and has also gained a reputation for his striking work in oil and acrylic.
Watercolour is his favourite medium, and working en plein air (on location) is his preferred method of painting. In his words, “for the landscape artist, painting on location enables the most honest, direct and immediate response to what one sees and feels. Painting this way is both visceral and meditative, particularly when painting with watercolour. It’s fast, with little room for mistakes, and invites an immediate emotional, poetic response to the subject, rather than a more literal, or prosaic one.”
Gordon has won numerous awards for his work, including inaugural Artist of the Year in the Watercolour Society of Australia in 2012. He has taught, demonstrated and exhibited overseas and in Australia over many years, and continues to travel widely with his easel and paints. Many of his works hang in private, corporate and public/state collections.
He has had many solo exhibitions over the almost 20 years that he has been at the easel full time, with the highlights being several residencies with ISF Academy and annual solo exhibitions in Hong Kong, residencies on HMAS Sirius at sea and ashore at HMAS Cerberus with the Royal Australian Navy, and international and domestic recognition from his peers as a master watercolourist. Gordon has been featured twice in the international journal The Art of Watercolour as well as in online and print watercolour magazines. He has two published books of his work - Light on the Landscape and The Sirius Sketchbook. He is presently writing and preparing a book on walking and painting the Camino de Santiago.
UPDATE: New pages have been added to this site to show work painted during and after walking his three Camino de Santiago pilgrimages (some 1300 kms) - the Caminos Frances, Portuguës and Inglés. Gordon will walk and paint the Camino Frances and on to Finisterre again in May 2024.