"Canyon Night" 7x8 **SOLD**
"Saint Francis Night" 7x8 **SOLD**
“As a painter, I’m always chasing the light, trying to capture those nuances of light,” Dix Baines told Sam Curtis in a 2002 interview for “Big Sky Journal” ( http://dixbaines.com/big-sky-journal/). I did not realize that “chasing the light” did not necessarily mean during the day light hours. On the particular evening, where these two painting images were captured, “Canyon Night” and “Saint Francis Night,” I found myself walking the streets of Santa Fe with Dix Baines as he “chased the light.” ”The color palette of the night hours is vastly different,” or so he told this non-artist, and “so as an artist you are never quite sure what you will get until the painting is complete”. It is a bit of a mystery or like unwrapping a present, or so it seems to me. In my view it must be a bit intriguing for an artist to “chase the light,” when at first glance there does not seem to be any light and then to be able to capture that image onto the canvas. -Kathlyn Gogarty-Baines
