Gaynor Dickeson DipSBA(Dist) SFP is a distinguished botanical artist. She works in watercolour, coloured pencil and graphite and has pictures in collections in Europe, the USA and Australia. Gaynor has taught widely and continues to teach in the UK.

She sells original paintings, limited edition giclée prints, cards and welcomes commissions.

Gaynor was born in the UK, but lived 25 years of her adult life in Norway. As a young adult the choice was Art School or Nursing. Nursing won but she still kept up her artistic interests.

In Norway, Gaynor developed her drawing and painting skills, leaning towards ornithology. At this time she worked with Stavanger Museum which loaned her bird skins so that she could portray bird plumage in detail. She had her pictures in several successful exhibitions in Norway through the 1970s and 80s. Following this she had her own exhibitions in Los Angeles in 1984, and in Stavanger in 1990. She has taught in many Norwegian towns, from Kristiansund in the North to  Kristiansand in the South. In 1984, whilst in Los Angeles she taught there too.

Gaynor moved back to the England in 1996 and now lives in West Sussex. Here, in 2005 she became interested in botanical illustration, working mostly with watercolour.  She also enjoys using coloured and graphite pencils.

Fixing the image of a beautiful or interesting flower or plant onto an archival support gives her a great deal of pleasure. She feels it is important to be able to combine looking, seeing and then registering the detail into a harmonious composition. For this she uses watercolour, coloured pencil or graphite; these show in the same picture the life, delicacy or solidity and detail of the subject matter, which is difficult if not impossible to convey with other media.

Gaynor delights in a seemingly endless supply of subjects and enjoys the challenge of illustrating these in a way that encourages others to look and see what is around them.