Rex Dixon
Rex Dixon – Mountain View
The two paintings submitted “Mountain View” and “Savannah” are visual autobiographical statements commenting on natural phenomena which express psychological insights into the artist’s mind and thinking. I live in Trinidad in an area called Mountain View which still has a lovely dedicated savannah as preserved playground for those who live in this spot. Mountain View was originally part of a Spanish settlement and capital of Trinidad up until the 18th century. It was a fertile agricultural space, wooded and well watered by the St. Joseph river. Today remnants of this past are still evident in the colurs and textures built up over the painting surface echoing time and place in the valley, but scars of incursion into mountains and riverbeds are glaring, and are mirrored by the blocks of letters and words on the painting. The parellel between landscape and memory are evoked in these pictures by the use of words, colour and gestural application.
Rex Dixon – Savannah
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