Artist profile

Jennifer Dickson RA trained as a painter and printmaker at Goldsmith's College School of Art (1954-1959), going on to found and direct the graduate printmaking programme at Brighton College of Art.

Dickson became a member of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers, London in 1965, and was elected Royal Academician in 1976.

Her hauntingly beautiful, meticulously hand-tinted etchings, prints, photographs and watercolour paintings focus on the structure and symbolism of historic gardens.

She lives and works in Ottawa, Canada.

Photo: © Kenneth Ginn