About the Artist

C harles Dickinson, a Connecticut native, grew up in a family of artists. Charles's grandfather Sidney Dickinson's work hangs in the National Gallery, The High Museum of Art and the Greenville County Museum of Art. Sidney's second cousin, Edwin Dickinson, exhibits in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Norton Museum of Art. Charles has been commissioned for paintings in such diverse locations as The Meadowlands racetrack in New Jersey, Saratoga Springs, New York, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and the New York Stock Exchange. IBM, United Technologies, Lenders Bakery, Hallmark Cards, Flagler College, The Hank Williams Museum, The Apalachicola Museum of Art, and numerous private collectors have purchased his work.

Charles began drawing in early childhood. He received four years of formal training at the Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, and two years of instruction in painting and sculpture at the Lyme Academy of Fine Art in Old Lyme, Connecticut. He has worked as a plein air (open air) landscape painter for more than twenty years and often incorporates imaginative imagery into his landscapes.

He was hired to teach painting a North Hollow School in Rochester, Vermont (1988-89) and at the Johnson College External Degree Program in Johnson, Vermont (1989). Charles has given painting demonstrations at various art leagues around the country.

Charles has been featured in several media formats including the opening presentation on NBC Sports for the PGA Tournament at TCP Sawgrass, Jacksonville's Arbus magazine (Cover Artist), Northeast Florida's Lifestyles Magazine (Feature), Vermont's What's Where magazine (Cover Artist), Cape Cod Guide (Cover Artist), and newspapers in Vermont and Florida. He often participates in invitational plein air painting events such as EpCot's 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th Annual International Flower and Garden Festival/Art in the Garden Plein Air Paint Out where Charles won First and two Second Place awards. He is a member, and award winner, of the St. Augustine Art Association, the Artists Alliance of North Florida, the Plein Air Artists of St. Augustine, Landscape Artists International, and a Signature member of Plein Air Florida. Charles is an artist-in-residence at the Kenneth Dow Museum of Historic Houses in St. Augustine, FL.

Charles has been painting the East Coast of the United States for many years and often divides his time between Florida, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Vermont. Charles's artistic aim is to continue to create paintings from the landscape and his imagination that capture his vision of the spirit and beauty of nature.

all images: © Charles Dickinson