A self-taught artist born to midwestern American missionaries and raised on the island of Taiwan, Linda Ruth Dickinson draws on her transcultural heritage to bridge seemingly disparate outlooks by seeking to express the intangible through universal iconography in a synthesis of eastern and western thought.
Translating her vision primarily through paint on panel or canvas, Dickinson attempts a charting of hope within various forms of the Sacred. Because she believes that work can make spiritual beliefs manifest, her art focuses on the expression of those possibilities connecting the viewer to that which may extend beyond usual experience and ordinary existence.
This exploration is displayed in abstracted imagery reminiscent of familiar terrestrial perspective that is also evocative of the inner eye. A threshold entrance to transcendent memory and communion, her works encourage a viewing as altars of possibility that suggest, as she states it, 'a tranquility observant and embracing of the declaration and dialogue between Heaven and Earth.'
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