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Red River #3

Red River #3, painting by Mark Dixon
15 x 13 inches, acrylic on paper, 2010

Another Red River

Red River painting by Mark Dixon

Red River Series, acrylic on paper, 15 x 13 inches, 2010

New Red River Painting

Red River Painting by Mark Dixon

Looking to exchange art work

If you are interested please leave a comment here (or contact me at m a r k (at) m a r k d i x o n . c a ).

I forgot to name it

redriver-2-nyu-500
untitled so far, acrylic on paper, 30 x 40 inches, 2009.
Collection of the New York University Medical Center.

Orphan (a painting)


Orphan, 100 x 93 cm, 2003.

Blue Forest

Blue Forest
Blue Forest, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 cm, 2009.

Fall Trees

Fall Trees
Fall Trees, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm, 2008.

Through pink

through-pink

Pink Through the Yellow

Pink Through the Yellow
Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches, 2008-09.

Red Forest (another new painting)

Red Forest
Oil on canvas, about 30 x 36 inches, 2009.

During my last trip to the studio I decided this painting is finished.

Dark Forest

Dark Forest, painting by Mark Dixon
Dark Forest, 100 x 120 cm, oil on canvas, 2008-09.

White Sky

white-sky
White Sky, oil on canvas, 10 x 12 inches, 2009.

Bigger.

Sky for Trees

Tree Blur, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2009
Tree Blur, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2009

Pink Sky Woods

Pink Sky Woods

Currently Reading

Currently reading : Sarah Thornton, SEVEN DAYS IN THE ART WORLD

Interesting Site

Visualize people being born and dying in the world as well as the amount of carbon being emitted by each country : www.breathingearth.net

New Painting

Oil on canvas, 3 x 4 feet, 2009
Grand Lake Orange, oil on canvas, 3 x 4 feet, 2009

It has been some time since I have posted anything here. I have been making quite a bit of new work and will start to post them in the next few days.

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I hope you enjoy and I appreciate any comments!

two friends


two friends, oil on board, 30 x 30 cm, 2008

A small painting that I finished today.

Open Letter to a Bike Thief, Part 2

I lost yet another to Montreal bike thieves. It is depressing and enraging… there is not much more I can say about someone who steals bikes. Here is a post I wrote a few years ago when Bike #2 was stolen : Open Letter to a Bike Thief.

Arts funding programs under attack

As you may have heard, several arts funding programs have been cancelled in the last seven days. While many in the press have condemned this decision, government leaks have been handled in such a way that indicates they feel it is electorally profitable for them to cancel these programs.

from www.carfac.ca

Yellow Jade


oil on board, 30 x 30 cm, 2008

MY Studio

My studio
This is where I have been working the past few months. It is working out quite well especially since it is just down the street from where I live.

Jade (in orange)

oil on board, 30 x 30 cm, 2008
Oil on board, 30 x 30 cm, 2008.

This is an example of one of the small paintings I have been working on. I am also working on some other landscape paintings that I consider more “forest paintings” - paintings of the dense woods instead of the more vista type paintings I have been doing. I will most one of them soon - perhaps in progress…

Jade, a digital study

Digital Study