OUT & ABOUT -
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike." John Muir
As an artist, Dix Baines finds that by getting OUT & ABOUT and into nature, as John Muir spoke about, both "body and soul" are healed. Inspiration for new paintings flows, as he sees the beauty, participates in the environment, and in general, breaths it all in. These paintings find their way into galleries, into shows, commissions, and occasionally a miniature painting, that will be auctioned on the STUDIO AUCTION PAGE.
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike." John Muir
As an artist, Dix Baines finds that by getting OUT & ABOUT and into nature, as John Muir spoke about, both "body and soul" are healed. Inspiration for new paintings flows, as he sees the beauty, participates in the environment, and in general, breaths it all in. These paintings find their way into galleries, into shows, commissions, and occasionally a miniature painting, that will be auctioned on the STUDIO AUCTION PAGE.
Dix Baines OUT & ABOUT painting at Delicate Arch in Arches National Monument
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
I can never get enough of the golden hour!
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
Spent some time at this amazing place, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. The depth of the canyon is unbelievable. The views awe-inspiring.
"Black Canyon Light" 10x12 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." Ralph Waldo Emerson
OUT & ABOUT - IDAHO
Commissions are always challenging, trying to capture an important place or a memory, and put it on canvas. For over 30 years one of my clients fished the Snake River every Autumn with the same river guide. HIs wife decided to surprise him for a birthday and flew me up to spend the day on the river with them. The benefit of those trips is that I always come back to the Studio with images to paint, including the commission image. DIX BAINES
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
There's a unexpected turn off of I-70 as you head east from Grand Junction. Kathlyn and I spent about an hour sitting on the side of the road watching the sun cross the sky and eventually drop below the cliffs. The reflections in the river of the cliffs were awesome to watch, as the sun moved westward. DIX BAINES
OUT & ABOUT - NEW MEXICO
"There is nothing more musical than a sunset." Claude Debussy
"October Sunset" 24x36 oil on panel $7700
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all." Stanley Horowitz
"Autumn Along the East Cimmarron" 24x27 oil on panel $6400
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"Monet's endeavors as a gardener were an essential part of his identity as a painter and...his artistic vision drew strength from his passion for his garden...painting his garden was 'an act of faith, an act of love, and humility, in which he struck a harmony with nature that allowed him to identify with creation and become absorbed in it." -from Monet's Garden in Art by Debra N. Mancoff
As an avid gardener and creator of ponds, Dix Baines, likewise, understands well being "absorbed by creation." His Studio reaches far beyond the four walls where his easel stands, into the yard where we have created our own sanctuary, with three Koi ponds, pathways, flowers, trees and in general, the miracles of life. -KATHLYN GOGARTY-BAINES
As an avid gardener and creator of ponds, Dix Baines, likewise, understands well being "absorbed by creation." His Studio reaches far beyond the four walls where his easel stands, into the yard where we have created our own sanctuary, with three Koi ponds, pathways, flowers, trees and in general, the miracles of life. -KATHLYN GOGARTY-BAINES
OUT & ABOUT - NEW MEXICO
"This is Christmas day at the church in Arroyo Seco, after an unbelievable Christmas Eve experience at the Taos Pueblo the nights before. As we left to go to the Pueblo, giant flakes of snow started softly dropping. Snow and darkness cloaked the fires at the Pueblo. As we were walking the approach opened up to a view reddish under clouds of the heavy smoke, and shimmers of the fires appeared through the trees. The massive bonfires reflected the light over all the wet areas of the snow covered ground, Spectacular and sacred!" DIX BAINES
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"Another fall, another turned page..." Wallace Stegner
"Autumn Atmosphere" 12x24 SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - FLORIDA
The opportunity to do commissions for clients and capture something important from their lives in paint, is unique and challenging. In February, I spent four days on the Florida gulf capturing my clients ocean view. The end result was a 24x30 a sunset of their view. both of these images were important in remembering the details and feel of the view. DIX BAINES
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them...may we be filled with the Holy Ghost." John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"The power of imagination makes us infinite." John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"There is a love of wild Nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love ever showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties." John Muir “
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness." John Muir “
"Evening Lake" 24x36 oil on panel $7700
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever." John Muir “
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself." John Muir “
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day ." John Muir “
OUT & ABOUT - UTAH
"Nature is every at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest, but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another." John Muir “
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"The sun shines not on us, but in us." John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"Oh, these vast, calm measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God." John Muir
"After a Black Canyon Rain" 24x36 oil on panel $7700
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988.1161
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988.1161
OUT & ABOUT - NEW MEXICO
"The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of bodies, making them glide and sing." John Muir
"Under a Turquoise Sky" 30x36 oil on panel $9500
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988.1161
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988.1161
OUT & ABOUT - ZIONS NATIONAL PARK, UTAH
'"The rivers rapids rushing by, sing a serenity to the bluing sky. And from that song is the key of life, comes the true meaning, to all of life's strife ."
Dix Baines
Dix Baines
"Time and Light" 24x26 oil on panel $6200
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988.1161
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988.1161
OUT & ABOUT - NEW MEXICO
'"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains." John Muir
"What I Love About New Mexico" 24x48 oil on panel $9700
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988.1161
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988.1161
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
'"The power of imagination makes us infinite." John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - UTAH
'"Life is a journey, not a destination." Unknown
"Smell of Sweet Grass" 14x18 oil on panel $2600
OUT & ABOUT - NEW MEXICO
'"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Unknown
OUT & ABOUT - UTAH
'"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in" John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - NEW MEXICO
'"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening-still all is Beauty!" John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - UTAH
'"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life." John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - PENNSYLVANIA
'"The forests too, seem kindly familiar, and the lakes and meadows and glad singing streams. I should like to dwell with them forever." John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
'"Every feature glowed with intention, reflecting the plans of God." John Muir
"Autumn Tapestry" 30x30 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
'"I have discovered that I also live in 'Creation's Dawn.' The morning stars still sing together and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day." John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
'"Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest, but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another." John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
'"New beauty meets us at every step, in all our wanderings." John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
'"The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the...canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain." John Wesley Powell
"I painted this piece in honor of my Studio pup and friend of 13 years, Evie, who suddenly passed on Saint Patrick's Day this year. She was a faithful friend, who saw us through some difficult times of loss of parents, and was a steadfast fixture in the Studio, as well as in our lives. She went on many a painting trip with me, including trips to the beautiful Glenwood Canyon in Colorado, where the inspiration for this painting came." Dix Baines
'"The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the...canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain." John Wesley Powell
"I painted this piece in honor of my Studio pup and friend of 13 years, Evie, who suddenly passed on Saint Patrick's Day this year. She was a faithful friend, who saw us through some difficult times of loss of parents, and was a steadfast fixture in the Studio, as well as in our lives. She went on many a painting trip with me, including trips to the beautiful Glenwood Canyon in Colorado, where the inspiration for this painting came." Dix Baines
"On a Walk With Evie" 24 x32 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
'"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt." John Muir
'"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt." John Muir
"Barnwood Light" 9 x9 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
'"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." John Muir
'"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
'We live in a grand and magical place in Colorado, and many of my paintings celebrate this. The truth to which I am striving to capture is best said in these words by George Inness; 'The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion...the intelligence to be conveyed by it is not an outer fact, but an inner life.' -Dix Baines
'We live in a grand and magical place in Colorado, and many of my paintings celebrate this. The truth to which I am striving to capture is best said in these words by George Inness; 'The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion...the intelligence to be conveyed by it is not an outer fact, but an inner life.' -Dix Baines
OUT & ABOUT - UTAH CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK
"Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain of danger ... or is conversant with terrible objects .. is the source of sublime: that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling." Edmund Burke
"The lightning not seen in this view, in these moments, had me soon running to my vehicle. It was awesome to behold briefly the fury of the elements that shape the land." Dix Baines
"Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain of danger ... or is conversant with terrible objects .. is the source of sublime: that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling." Edmund Burke
"The lightning not seen in this view, in these moments, had me soon running to my vehicle. It was awesome to behold briefly the fury of the elements that shape the land." Dix Baines
OUT & ABOUT - UTAH ARCHES NATIONAL PARK
"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere. The dew is never dried all at once. A shower is forever falling. Vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise. Eternal dawn and gloaming. On seas and continents and islands. Each in it's turn as the round earth rolls." John Muir
While OUT & ABOUT and visiting Arches National Park during September's 1435 mile adventure through Utah's parks with Dix's wife and 87 year old father-in-law, there was a torrential rain storm that closed the only road out of the Delicate Arch parking lot. It took the park service several hours to get the road open again, which meant being stuck in the parking lot until nearly 8 PM. The silver lining to the very long day was an unbelievable and spectacular sunset display, that became the subject of "Light After the Storm" (24x36)
"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere. The dew is never dried all at once. A shower is forever falling. Vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise. Eternal dawn and gloaming. On seas and continents and islands. Each in it's turn as the round earth rolls." John Muir
While OUT & ABOUT and visiting Arches National Park during September's 1435 mile adventure through Utah's parks with Dix's wife and 87 year old father-in-law, there was a torrential rain storm that closed the only road out of the Delicate Arch parking lot. It took the park service several hours to get the road open again, which meant being stuck in the parking lot until nearly 8 PM. The silver lining to the very long day was an unbelievable and spectacular sunset display, that became the subject of "Light After the Storm" (24x36)
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAINS OCTOBER
"Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God." John Muir
Part of being OUT & ABOUT means bringing the inspiration of photos, painted sketches, and memories back to the Studio to create larger paintings. The inspiration for this painting, "Storm Light," came from being OUT & ABOUT in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in August.
"Storm Light" 24 x 48 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - UTAH PARKS SEPTEMBER
"In every walk with nature, one receives for more than he seeks." John Muir
September took Dix Baines to some unexpected and spectacular land, to restore and invigorate his creativity. Utah is home to a number of National and State Parks, some of which before this trip, he had not explored. The five day, 1435 mile trip took him along the Colorado River into Moab, Utah, followed by Arches National Park, Dead Horse Point State Park, Canyonlands National Park, The Needles Overlook, National Bridges Monument, and Goblin State Park. The inspiration and 159 photos brought back to the Studio, will keep him busy for months to come.
"In every walk with nature, one receives for more than he seeks." John Muir
September took Dix Baines to some unexpected and spectacular land, to restore and invigorate his creativity. Utah is home to a number of National and State Parks, some of which before this trip, he had not explored. The five day, 1435 mile trip took him along the Colorado River into Moab, Utah, followed by Arches National Park, Dead Horse Point State Park, Canyonlands National Park, The Needles Overlook, National Bridges Monument, and Goblin State Park. The inspiration and 159 photos brought back to the Studio, will keep him busy for months to come.
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAINS AUGUST
"Keep close to Nature's heart ... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." John Muir
As a Colorado native the Colorado Rocky Mountains are always home.
"Keep close to Nature's heart ... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." John Muir
As a Colorado native the Colorado Rocky Mountains are always home.
OUT & ABOUT - North Rim of the Grand Canyon August
The North Rim of the Grand canyon, sitting at 8800 ft, is one of the crown jewels of the United States National Parks, yet it is one that is often overlooked. We recently spent our 35th wedding anniversary there and found it not a bad place to spend some "wanderlust." The sunrises were reverent, the sunsets astounding, the views abundant, possibilities endless, and at times overwhelming.
As John Muir penned: "By going out, we are really going in." It's what our National Parks are all about. we wander "Hill and Dale" to see them. Awestruck, is the least of what we experience in them. They are images, we can equally enjoy on our walls, when captured in paint.
The North Rim of the Grand canyon, sitting at 8800 ft, is one of the crown jewels of the United States National Parks, yet it is one that is often overlooked. We recently spent our 35th wedding anniversary there and found it not a bad place to spend some "wanderlust." The sunrises were reverent, the sunsets astounding, the views abundant, possibilities endless, and at times overwhelming.
As John Muir penned: "By going out, we are really going in." It's what our National Parks are all about. we wander "Hill and Dale" to see them. Awestruck, is the least of what we experience in them. They are images, we can equally enjoy on our walls, when captured in paint.
"Close to the Edge" 6 x 12 oil on panel $1100
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988.1161
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988.1161
