Maracas Valley Studio Productions

Individual and collaborative work of artist Rex Matthew Dixon and scholar, writer/ filmmaker Patricia Mohammed

REX MATTHEW DIXON

 

Rex Dixon was born in 1939 in London, England. After teaching in the New University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern Ireland for several years, he came to Jamaica in 1985 to teach at the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts.

He has held numerous one person exhibitions in Kingston, Port of Spain and abroad and his paintings are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, and numerous private collections. He gave up teaching to paint full time in 1997 and moved to Trinidad in 2002.

His work can be seen at James Wray Gallery in Belfast and Soft Box Studios in Port of Spain.

Click here to view a detailed CV of Rex Dixon.

Adapted from the film 17 colours and a Sitar,
please enjoy this tribute to Rex Dixon in celebration of his 80th Birthday.