Contact:

Studio # 314

Email: djdickeman@hotmail.com

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About:

I really appreciate my studio in Building 30 West. After years on the waiting list, I moved into the building in February 2019. I am very happy to have my own space - to be able to come in and close the door and focus on my work is invaluable. The building is a great working environment with a good community of artists, and the location in Magnuson Park is an added plus. 

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My work is mainly based in painting and drawing in the mediums of oil, acrylic, watercolor and gouache, charcoal, and graphite. I am pretty firmly attached to that two-dimensional plane. I begin a piece with an idea in mind, but the image really resolves during the process of working. The surface shows the history of the process, scraping and repainting, a record of the changes. My work balances the line between imagery and abstraction, particularly when working on a series. The imagery is often more recognizable early on and becomes more abstract over time. 

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Most of my recent work has been focused on land and water, rivers, wave patterns, geologic formations. Much of it references the eastern Washington landscape that I grew up in and that is still dear to me, especially the Columbia River, but also the Pacific Ocean and the land and waters of the Pacific Northwest. 

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