CHRIS J. T. DIXON (b. 1962) grew up on the Connecticut shoreline, where he developed interests in the rich history and beauty of Long Island Sound and the Southern Connecticut River Valley, a favorite subject for the impressionistic painters of the Old Lyme artist colony. Painters of that time period, such as Childe Hassam and Willard Metcalf, continue to inspire Dixon with a variety of visual interpretations of familiar landscapes.

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Chris was graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 1987 and completed the school’s fifth year program in 1990, with a concentration in landscape painting. He went on to study illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and plein-air painting with George Strickland, John Budicin, and Matt Smith, artists from the Plein Air Painters of America.

Chris is an elected member of the Lyme Art Association and the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society.

 

SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS

Lyme Art Association, Elected Artist Show, Old Lyme CT, May 2016, Second Prize Award.

Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester VT, Winter Members Show, January 2016.

Granby Land Trust Show, Lost Acre Vineyard Granby CT, November 2015

Eric Sloan Museum, Annual Summer Exhibition, Kent CT, July, 2015

Lyme Art Association , Summer Exhibition, Old Lyme CT, July 2o15

Connecticut Academy Of Fine Arts 104th Exhibition, Mystic Arts Center, Mystic CT, June 2015

Wayne Plein-Air Paint Festival 9th Anual Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA, May 2015

Mark Twain Library Annual Holiday Show, Redding CT, December 2014

Southern Vermont Art Center, Winter Exhibition Manchester Vt, January 2012

Academic Artists Association 61st Annual National Exhibition, American International College, Springfield MA, May 2011

Connecticut Academy Of Fine Arts,100th Exhibition, Mystic Arts Center, Mystic CT, June 2011

Hudson Valley Art Association, 80th Annual Exhibition, Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme CT, September 2011