Delicate original botanical watercolour study of blue delphiniums and soft pink heather, signed lower right by Lalia Dickson. The painting is done on a good heavy textured artist’s paper and shows her typical style: fine, accurate linework around the stems and sepals, then loose washes building into saturated cobalt and violet in the petals. It sits right in that sweet spot between traditional botanical plate and romantic cottage garden painting, so it works both framed clean and minimal, or in a gold / Victorian mount for full country house energy.
Sheet size is approximately 30 cm tall x 21 cm wide, which is about 11.75 inches x 8.25 inches (around A4). There are a few tiny foxing speckles and light handling marks to the paper, mostly in the blank areas, which you’ll expect from a mid-century studio piece and which will largely sit under a mount once framed.
Lalia Caroline Dickson (1913–1985) was a Scottish botanical and still life painter, illustrator and stained glass designer. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1930 to 1934, then worked as a freelance illustrator, producing finely observed flower studies in watercolour, gouache and pencil.
She exhibited in Edinburgh through the 1960s and 1970s, including solo shows at Gladstone’s Land and at Douglas & Foulis Gallery, and her work was reproduced for publishers such as The Medici Society and in botanical titles for W. & R. Chambers.
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This sheet is unframed and ready to mat and glaze to your taste. Perfect for cottagecore / garden room styling, old-money dressing rooms, botanicals in bathrooms, or as part of a salon wall of original work rather than repro prints.
Sheet size is approximately 30 cm tall x 21 cm wide, which is about 11.75 inches x 8.25 inches (around A4). There are a few tiny foxing speckles and light handling marks to the paper, mostly in the blank areas, which you’ll expect from a mid-century studio piece and which will largely sit under a mount once framed.
Lalia Caroline Dickson (1913–1985) was a Scottish botanical and still life painter, illustrator and stained glass designer. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1930 to 1934, then worked as a freelance illustrator, producing finely observed flower studies in watercolour, gouache and pencil.
She exhibited in Edinburgh through the 1960s and 1970s, including solo shows at Gladstone’s Land and at Douglas & Foulis Gallery, and her work was reproduced for publishers such as The Medici Society and in botanical titles for W. & R. Chambers.
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This sheet is unframed and ready to mat and glaze to your taste. Perfect for cottagecore / garden room styling, old-money dressing rooms, botanicals in bathrooms, or as part of a salon wall of original work rather than repro prints.