Barony Street-based Fee Dickson is a pub cook and an artist/illustrator, and this summer she is combining these complementary elements by showing her paintings in a pop-up exhibition at the Barony Bar on Broughton Street – the same place she prepares scampi and chips for customers.
A graduate in Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art, her Broughton Series depicts the characterful streets of this area in glowing yellows, browns, reds, oranges and ambers. The majority of them show local scenes, and the bendy perspective of the buildings perhaps suggests the way some customers occasionally perceive the city on their way home.
Dickson is fascinated by the dynamic quality of light, and this interest recurs through much of her painting. 'When the light changes,' she writes, 'at sunset, or sunrise, or on a stormy day, is the moment where I am uplifted and energised'.
Six of her dramatic oils are now on display in the Barony, including Cask Conditioned Sky shown below (oil bar on board). Three of them have already sold to friends and locals. Regular customers have of course long enjoyed her Sunset on Barony, which was bought and displayed by the landlord and is now available as a greetings card.
Dickson's work will show between 12am and 12pm, daily, in the Barony Bar until 29 August. You can see other examples of her work at her own website: www.feedickson.co.uk
Her next appearance will be in about a month's time as part of a joint exhibition at the Gallery on the Corner on Northumberland Street. Expect more skylines and greater abstraction, but still the same unabashed enjoyment of vivid colour.
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