The Tactile World of John Dickson Born in 1949, John Dickson approaches the canvas with a sense of physical curiosity. His work is less about the brushstroke and more about the weight and texture of the materials he gathers. He treats the surface of his art as a landscape to be built, layer by layer, using objects that carry their own history and grit. There is a quiet, deliberate nature to how he assembles his compositions, finding a way to make the flat plane of a board feel deep and dimensional. His process involves a careful selection of textures that catch the light in different ways. He…