Title is River Light. 14 3/4" by 17 3/4" framed. Dix Baines (Born 1961) is active/lives in Colorado. Dix Baines is known for Fish and mountain-landscape painting. A resident of Parker, Colorado, Dix Baines has been an avid fly fisherman who loves bravura brushwork which he applies to his landscape paintings, many of them plein air and expressive of his awe for the totality of his environment. His style combines abstraction and realism and often depicts fishing-genre subject matter. In 1996 and 1997, he was an Arts for the Parks Top 100 selectee, and this recognition became a defining moment to launch his career when his painting of a cutthroat trout won a $7500. price. The piece was purchased by Yellowstone National Park and has led to further commissions. Baines grew up in Denver, the son of a physician. Although he was expected to become a professional, his early bent was for drawing. He attended Brigham Young University where a professor, admiring his skill for realism, steered him to the Interior Design Department. After graduation from BYU, he spent ten years as an architectural interior designer in Denver, where he designed hotel and restaurants interiors across the country. But he became drained by the intensity and repetition and encouraged by his wife, Kathlyn Gogarty-Baines, he enrolled in the Art Students League of Denver and studied with Quang Ho and Kim English. In 1996, he submitted his first work to the Arts for the Parks competition, which was the cutthroat trout, a piece that defied the usual entries of panoramic landscapes and won the cash prize. This success led to his becoming a full-time fine artist, and in 1997, he set up a studio in his home and began selling many paintings. Occasionally he travels for subject matter including to Mexico.