Daisy-Anne Dickson
Duluth, GA
Contemporary mixed media artist, salvaging and upcycling materials to create soulful artwork
MessageDaisy-Anne is an abstract artist based just outside of Atlanta, GA. Her intuitive and expressionistic abstract paintings are intertwined with the art of storytelling, centering around themes of brokenness, healing, growth, renewal, and restoration. Daisy largely emphasizes layers, texture, motion and color to create a language of her own. Salvaging discarded, surplus, neglected or broken materials to repurpose in her work has become a mainstay of her style.
Healing has become a recurring role and theme in both Daisy’s life and work. After being formally educated in oil painting, Daisy went on to earn a degree in nursing, all while raising a family. Currently, Daisy remains passionate about continuing her work as a registered nurse in both the emergency room and surgical services while working as a full-time artist.
Her work is aptly centered around and integral to the experiences of healing, restoration and the relationship between polarities such as life and death. Daisy’s love of science can be seen in her evolving experimental processes and use of materials. Daisy currently works out of her home studio in Duluth, GA.
Statement
As a mother, artist and registered nurse I have found healing to be a common theme inside my life and within my abstract paintings. My stories of healing, renewal and growth remain a constant inspiration for me, as I attempt to convey an experience of brokenness and subsequent healing—what it might feel and look like. The act of creating, for me, is an act of healing, reflection, and meditation. At times, this process may resemble a bold, inky line across a canvas or wood panel—linear, singular and smooth. At other times, it may be a tangled, knotted mess, pooling with somber greys, cerulean blues and sunset pinks. Abstract elements may emphasize stillness by completely wiping out large portions of ground or remain frozen in time and space by resin. Contrarily, they may branch into many frenzied directions, peel, and drip. In other instances, these tendrils of rich green or glossy black may reach off the canvas onto that which was meant to contain it—the frame—in an act of bold sovereignty. Meanwhile, in the background of our healing, life continues to catapult us forward, being just one of many layers to this process.
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