Nita Dixon: the paintings drive themselves

“The things that inspire me vary,” said Nita Dixon, a New Braunfels mixed media artist and painter who shows her work at Art on 12 in Wimberley. “Sometimes it’s landscapes or water or skies, and sometimes it’s shapes. For a while, I was consumed by the shape of old trucks until I finished studying it in my mind’s eye.”

“My mind will search out what I’m chasing at the time and then when I sit down to paint, it becomes the tree, sky or river of my imagination,” she continued. “It is a representation but isn’t realistic. Adding that extra idea or feeling into the work makes a difference.”

Dixon’s favorite part of creating a painting is composing the subject and finding the combination of colors that pleases her the most.