Artist: Dixie Morris		 Born in 1936, Dix lived her childhood days on a farm in Southwest, Texas. Her father was a farmer-rancher and her mother a teacher and school administrator. She was the youngest of five children.

Dix and her husband, Frank, (who enthusiastically encourages her painting) spent their working years counseling as certified Transactional Analysts. Together, they founded the Liberation Psychotherapy Training Center in the late '70's. In her paintings Dix seeks to communicate the values they have taught across the years: beauty, truth, justice, goodness, and love.

In the Indian Summer years of her life, Dix has concentrated on artistic endeavors including stained glass, basketry, poetry, and writing, but she has found Pastels to be her medium. She enjoys painting a variety of subjects..

Beginning her work with pastels in April of '97, Dix painted herself into a one-woman show with the Redbud Gallery (Glendale, KY) by December of that year. She was juried into the Masterpieces of Maturity Exhibition sponsored by the Lexington Art League (KY) in May of '98, and has hung paintings in a variety of juried exhibits in the Kentucky and Indiana area. In July of '98 she was juried into the International Pastel Exhibit at the Colorado Museum of History with two paintings selected. She swept the pastel division and won Grand Champion of the Fine Arts Division of the Meade County Fair in Kentucky in July of '98. She was juried into the 3rd Biennial International Pastel Exhibit at the Dartmouth Gallery in Albuquerque, N.M. in 1999, and the 4th Biennial IAPS Exhibit in the Christine Gallery in Santa Fe, N.M. in 2001. Dix won First Place in the KAPS Exhibit at the Pendleton Gallery in Rising Sun, IN in 2001.

Her painting "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness" was juried into the WOMAN: Force of the New Millennium Exhibit in Lexington, KY - January - March, 2000. Her paintings hang in private collections in the Midwest, Colorado, Texas and California. In 1998, she founded the Kentuckiana Artists Pastel Society of which she served as president until moving to Colorado in 2002. Currently, Dix is now a Signature Member of the Colorado Pastel Society.

Dix celebrates life with her husband, Frank, at their home (which serves as a Gallery for her creations and for Frank's sculptures*) in Castle Rock, Colorado. Dix is currently a committee member of the Art Commission of Castle Rock. * See: http://www.ion0.com/woodsoulto view her husband's work. Contact Dix at FrankMorris2010@aol.com.