This is a wonderfully detailed and colourful study of military costumes!

Dick was born in Worcester, where he lives today and where he earns his living as a graphic designer, however, he has been a painter all his life.

He went through Art College: A Foundation Course at Bournville School of Art, Birmingham; BA (Hons) at Cheltenham Art College (as once was) and an MA at the University of Ulster in Belfast.

Having initially painted in oils he discovered the joys of watercolour as a medium: the ability to mix a colour that is still usable the next day, the ability to pick up a brush and start painting immediately and the relatively easy creation of sensible sized paintings which can be easily printed.

The subject matter reflects Dick's hobby of historical re-enactment. He has variously been a Civil War Pikeman and Musketeer, a Napoleonic soldier from both the British and French sides, and more recently a French machine-gunner of the First World War and a French soldier of 1940.

The majority of the paintings on display here are watercolours painted over the last eight years or so. 'Cigarette Cards', Prints and Mini-prints of Dick's work are also available.

Links:

delingpolestudio.co.uk
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More of Dick's Artwork