Recent Landscapes
As I continue
“painting in papers”
LITTER-ALLY KENTUCKY
Also available as
giclée prints
A Change of Seen
When I took paper and paste outside
Recent Landscapes
As I continue
“painting in papers”
LITTER-ALLY KENTUCKY
Also available as
giclée prints
A Change of Seen
When I took paper and paste outside
Reproductions of my collage landscapes are now available to collectors directly from Fine Art Editions of Georgetown, Kentucky. The premium giclée prints are enlargements and successfully capture the dimensional paper details of the original miniatures.
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I am pleased to offer each of my sixteen LITTER-ALLY KENTUCKY landscapes as editions limited to 25 prints. These affordable enlargements are suitable for framing. Enjoy them in your home or office environment.
Collage is ideally suited to opening ourselves to intuitive discovery. It’s only natural for our intellect to seek the upper hand, but we can practice exercising our discernment to perceive the distinction between ordinary deliberation and a connection to the heart of creativity.
Mystery Tramp
collage miniature by J A Dixon
5 x 4.875 inches
from my Series of Rock
“Never put off until tomorrow what you
can do the day after tomorrow.”— Sam Clemens, Oscar Wilde,
or some other unknown wit
Would that I had followed Ben Franklin’s advice in preparation for my class to share collage-making techniques and perspectives. When I “pick a card” like this and invite Lady Luck, I am more likely to find myself in the Mark Twain frame of mind. At any rate, everybody who signed up was fun to be with, all went well, I’m more than pleased, and surely I’ll do it again. We tackled multiple experiments to short-circuit the calculating mind and build intuitive spontaneity. Five participants were there on Friday and six on Saturday. My thanks to each of them and the hospitality of Kleinhelter Gallery!
When Chance Comes to Call
collage miniature, 2025
7 x 8.25 inches, in the Merz tradition
available to collectors
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
— Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863
Deep Morning Zephyr
This studio landscape study was inspired by my plein air practice and a recent train trip from California to Illinois via the transcontinental rail route envisioned by President Lincoln. Today’s memorial observance intensifies my gratitude for all the generations of soldiers and seafaring warriors who selflessly sacrificed all they had and all they would ever have to provide those like me the opportunity to pursue my creative calling. You are remembered and honored forever.
“I called it Merz. This new process whose principle was the use of any material. It was the second syllable of Kommerz. It first appeared in Merzbild, a painting in which, apart from its abstract forms, one could read Merz, cut and pasted from an advertisement for Kommerz und Privatbank. I was looking for a term to designate this new genre, for I could not classify my paintings under old labels such as expressionism, cubism, futurism, and so on.”
— Kurt Schwitters
Mere Scrupulosity
collage miniature on canvas panel
8 x 10 inches, in the Merz tradition
Thanks for your interest in my collage landscapes. Click on each thumbnail to view a larger image. Click here to scroll the original blog posts.
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Looking East
collage en plein air by J A Dixon
10.125 x 7.75 inches, 2024
(appreciation to Rich Brimer at The Art Distillery)