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BIOGRAPHY
Rick Dickinson grew up in rural upstate New York where he developed his interest in landscape painting while studying with a professional artist in the neighborhood. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana Institute of Technology and had a successful career in the construction industry until he could return to his first love, landscape oil painting.
Rick and his wife now live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Southport, Maine. He maintains studios in an 1830 era Pennsylvania bank barn and a Maine seaside cottage overlooking Townsend Gut. They have two grown children.
He can often be seen working en plein air at either location.
EDUCATION:
- Bachelor Of Science Mechanical Engineering, Indiana Institute of Technology
- Classes at Mercer College Community College and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
- Individual study with Ty Hodanish, Lois Griffel, Don Stone, David Bradford and Lee Boynton
ORGANIZATIONS:
- Boothbay Region Art Foundation, Boothbay Harbor, ME
- American Society of Marine Artists
- Artsbridge, New Hope, PA
- Plein Air Florida
- Plein Air Painters of Maine
- American Impressionist Society
THE CAP COD SCHOOL OF ART
I really need to mention The Cape Cod School, my friends, role models and mentors. In 2003 I met Ty Hodanish in Stockton, New Jersey when I enrolled in his impressionist landscape class. Ty introduced me to The Cape Cod School of Impressionism, to Lois Griffel, its latest director and to the teachings of Henry Hensche, its long time and best known director and Lois’s teacher.
The genre absolutely fits my temperament, my love of color, my desire to spend time outdoors and the focus of my work for some time to come.
Hensche’s teaching, and now Lois’s, was not only about composition, form, perspective, color mixing, etc. They’re all important, but the teaching was about seeing. Seeing what Hencshe described as the light key was his truth to the way everything, every time of day, every type of weather, every season had its own light key. Every plane change was a color change and not merely a lighter or darker value of the same color. To paint you had to learn to see the light keys, and that learning was a progression of steps with each stage needing to be completed before the next step could be seen. The only way to take the steps is to paint, to take each painting just as far as you can and then start another. Take that one as far as you can and then start yet another. There are no short cuts or easy ways. Get outdoors and do it. If it takes one hundred paintings to make a good one, then make one hundred paintings.
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