British
portrait and still life artist Diccon Swan visited the
Flathead Valley in July 2003, where he taught a workshop at
the Hockaday Museum of Art and painted a portrait of
Blackfeet spiritual leader George Kicking Woman for the
Hockaday Museum's Permanent Collection.
Born in Ireland, Swan
completed a degree in theology at St. John’s College,
Oxford, and a degree in art at the Ruskin School of Drawing,
Oxford. He has
exhibited in various galleries, including The Royal Academy;
The Mall Galleries; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; The
Ebury Gallery; the Blackheath Callery; St. Jude’s,
Kensington Church Street; The Hambledon Gallery, Blanford,
Dorset; and The Addison-Ross Gallery.
Official
portraits by Swan include Prime Minister John Major; Benazir
Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan; Francesco Cossiga,
President of Italy; Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the
Exchequer; and Lord Boyd-Carpenter. In 1987, Swan won the
Senior Prize in the Irish National Portrait Painting
Competition with a portrait of actor Rik Mayall.
Swan has also painted portraits of Duchess of York
Sarah Ferguson; Lady Margaret Thatcher, Prince Peter of
Yugoslavia, actors Jane Asher, Sian Phillips and Peter
Bowles, Parliament member Alan Duncan, Canon Eric James;
Parliament member William Hague and his wife Ffion.
Special
Thanks to:
Buz and Carole Meyer for sponsoring Diccon’s
visit and the painting
Tedrowe Watkins for sponsoring the sitting fee
