Artist statement: Monica Lucille Dixon

Monica spent her early years on a farm on the northwest coast of Tasmania and, as the
daughter of an environmental artist, was inspired to paint at an early age.
Whilst raising a family and building her career as an interior decorator, painting became away to capture moments and ideas within a busy life.

After three decades as an interior decorator, and with all children following their chosen
paths, Monica commenced painting fulltime as a working artist.

More recently, through study with the acclaimed Conscious Creativity Academy, under the guidance of artists Christopher Remmers and Devin Eckert, Monica explored her authentic voice as a mystic archetype: deeply introspective and spiritually driven, finding wonder and serenity in lived experiences and her surroundings.

Monica’s paintings develop from a very introspective place of imagination and develop
through a deliberate and considered process of play and experimentation, adopting
surrealistic and imaginative concepts, where she feels this adds to the emotion, or nostalgia, of the story.An example being the merging of the wings of a bird with a face, connecting humanness to a moment, a co-existence, or a desire.Monica combines the technical skills of classical oil painting techniques, relative to portraiture, using indirect painting, layering and glazing techniques to achieve realistic skin tones and three- dimensionality to faces, with modern contemporary techniques of
deconstructing and dissolving forms in unexpected ways.