"In describing his current work... while encompassing a range of subjects, many of his paintings fall into a type he refers to as 'passages of light:' intense, often late afternoon or early morning scenes of radiance....'It's those spectacular, brief, golden moments of light that make us stop and wonder,' he explains. This luminous touch, along with a strong compositional quality and the freshness of his brushwork, is among the distinguishing traits of his art."
-Gussie Fauntleroy, Focus/Santa Fe
-Gussie Fauntleroy, Focus/Santa Fe
MEMORABLE IMAGES Stories behind archive images.
"A Walk With Evie" 24"x32" oil on panel Private Collection
"I painted this piece in honor of my Studio pup and friend of 13 years, Evie, who suddenly passed on Saint Patrick's Day 2018. 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." -DB
OUT & ABOUT
"I strive for unique depictions of the sublime light and atmosphere in landscapes that speak to the spirit and inspire the viewer of the 'life force' or 'living motion' of Nature. It is often quoted [and never rivaled] in John Muir's description, as it relates to my purpose in producing these scenes, 'that by going out, we are really going in.' Many of my images depict my love of the experiences of National Parks and the continued recording of Wilderness; Pond Scenes, Riverscapes, and Angling experience; Architectural anchors in landscapes unique to a sense of place." -DB
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 come about, as he sees the beauty, participates in the environment and in general, breaths it all in.
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 come about, as he sees the beauty, participates in the environment and in general, breaths it all in.
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"Sun Dance" 16x20 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT -PENNSYLVANIA
OUT & ABOUT -NEW MEXICO
OUT & ABOUT -NEW MEXICO
OUT & ABOUT -NEW MEXICO
OUT & ABOUT -NEW MEXICO
"Passing Rain over Placita" 24x27 oil on panel $6,100
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988-1161
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988-1161
OUT & ABOUT -NEW MEXICO
"In the Midst of Shadows" 12x20 oil on panel $2,700
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988-1161
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988-1161
OUT & ABOUT -NEW MEXICO
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"A thrilling day of storm light! - My wife and our daughter (a photographer) were taking in a beautiful autumn weekend of 'leaf peeping.' I confess, we might have been speeding a bit along the back roads due to the adrenaline of the next spectacular scene unfolding." -DB
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"I have situated my Studio next to my koi ponds. The many days of observing the changing light often become paintings. They are the JOY that I find within creation" -DB
OUT & ABOUT -PENNSYLVANIA
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"Late Light" 8 1/2x12 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"A Sunset" 9x9 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"Colorado Gold. Always a blessing to behold and participate in each year during my annual trek to the Ouray, Colorado area." -DB
"To the Morning" 24x48 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"I have always held that the grandest, most beautiful or wonderful in nature, would...make the grandest, most beautiful or wonderful pictures, and that the business of a great painter should be the representation of the great scenes in nature." -Thomas Moran
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"To understand the artist is to know what inspires them. My koi ponds, just outside the door of my Studio are a constant source of inspiration." -DB
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"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
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"The true end of art...is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion." -George Innes
OUT & ABOUT - ARIZONA
"There is a great celebration within my undertakings in Art, and it is Spiritual..." -DB
"Sunset on the Rim" 24x27 oil on panel $6,400
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988.1161
Available through McLarry Fine Art Gallery @ 505.988.1161
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"What I want to produce lies in the motif and me." -Monet
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"What I'm looking for: 'instantaneity,' the 'envelope,' above all, the same light spread over everything." -DB
"Midsummer Light on Sky Pond" 30x33 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"We were on a spectacular leaf peeping trip and this was a moment where we pulled off, practically left the car running, and traipsed through the grass for the next 20 minutes. I could not wait to visit this scene and did so in a larger format, that could better celebrate the light that we beheld." -DB
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"You never know what you will see when you set up camp"-DB
OUT & ABOUT - NEW MEXICO
"There is nothing so spectacular than to pack into and paint as you are beholding a sunset view... The quest is to capture the spectacle before you. What is most humbling is the endless variety and the sublime effect light has on these wild places." -DB
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"Whether researching sporting life images, landscapes, or places from abroad, painting directly from the subject is essential to capturing the impression of what I see. I am drawn to the things which speak to the senses; the light and atmosphere of landscapes, the impressions of a moment or place, and the spirit of nature and of people." -DB
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
" The true beauty of the work consists in the beauty of the sentiment or emotion which it inspires." George Inness
,"Autumn Beaver Pond" 10x12 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"The winds started to blow me away, but I could not believe what I had laid down on the canvas." -DB
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"This was a magic moment at this high mountain lake, photographing the moon as well as making a mental record of it's light." It was captivating, to say the least."-DB
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"It is important to me to celebrate the untouched look of the land and the range of emotions that it inspires - from the lone and dreary, stormy and turbulent, to illuminated and even magical." -DB
"Golden Hour Reflections" 10x12 oil on panel SOLD
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." -DB
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." -DB
"Canyon Water" 16x20 oil on panel SOLD
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
"Water Colors" 30x36 oil on panel SOLD
"Lily Like a Rose" 10x12 oil on panel SOLD
"Lily on Still Water" 8x10 oil on panel SOLD
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!" -DB
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." -DB
"Sunset Sea" 8x10 oil on panel SOLD
"Sunrise Sea" 8x10 oil on panel SOLD
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 “
"Autumn Reflections" 27x24 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
"Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever." John Muir “
"Summer Sunset" 10x12 oil on panel SOLD
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 SOLD
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 SOLD
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
OUT & ABOUT - NEW MEXICO
'"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains." John Muir
OUT & ABOUT - COLORADO
'"The power of imagination makes us infinite." John Muir
"Winter Light" 9x11 oil on panel SOLD
OUT & ABOUT - UTAH
'"Life is a journey, not a destination." Unknown
"Smell of Sweet Grass" 14x18 oil on panel $2,600
Available through Dix Baines Studio @ 720.353.2670
Available through Dix Baines Studio @ 720.353.2670
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
"Sangre Sky" 7x11.5 oil on panel SOLD
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 - UTAH
'"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.
