Initially self – taught, Dawson’s formal artistic education started from a HND course in Public Art. She later completed her BA Honours degree in Fine Art and Art Practice in the Community Middlesex University London. Dawson, explores painting with minimal use of paint brushes. She employs utensils to explore a whole new visual language on to canvas. Syringes, watering cans, sticks, string and chains are creating the marks on the chosen media.
In the early days of her Artistic career, Dawson found inspiration in the works of Picasso and Cézanne. She admired their bold use of colours and began portraying their style in images she created from her own dreams.
Dawson’s long-held admiration for Michaly Csikszentmihaly, is concentrated around his description of ‘Flow’… “It’s being involved with an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away, time flies, you forget who and where you are, and where you’re meant to be next. You lose self–consciousness and become at one with what you are doing. The more we can find activities, where we can get into a state of flow, the happier we will be.”