Screen

About

Pip Dickens is a painter concerned with visual perception and concepts of illusion and double meaning. Her approach to painting is determined by the subject matter and often brings together conventional painting techniques with innovative methods to create unusual surfaces, layers and textures. Depth and surface contrasts are particularly important in her work. Building on previous work that looked at Japanese aesthetics and textile design, Screen is an exhibition featuring selected and new works utilising the conventional format of Japanese screens and also of wallpaper. Some of these paintings are celebratory and luxurious studies of bright, saturated colour and shadow. Other constructions lack adhesion - slipping, unpeeling and melting down to reveal contrasting layers. Pip Dickens was born in 1962 in Nottinghamshire and lives and works in Yorkshire. She studied her Masters in painting at The Slade School of Fine Art graduating in 2000. Her work is in numerous private and corporate collections and also in public collections in the UK. Her book 'Shibusa - Extracting Beauty' co-authored with Professor Monty Adkins examining Japanese aesthetics, art and music, was published in 2012 by University of Huddersfield Press.