The artist
Valentino Dixon
Valentino Dixon learned to draw in a maximum-security prison, with a pencil, a pad and no teacher. He drew the things he could not go and see — golf courses first, then whatever he could hold in his head. Twenty-seven years later his work left the cell before he did.
The work
Memory as a subject
Working without references, Dixon builds each picture from remembered shapes and sound: a fairway from a broadcast he half-heard, a figure from someone’s description. The result is drawing as recollection rather than record.
The medium
Graphite, ink, pastel
Graphite remains the core of the practice, supported by ink and pastel. Works are made on paper, in small formats suited to the space he had, and finished with a restraint that reads as confidence.
The studio
Now
Dixon works from his studio and releases work directly through this collection. Originals and editions are sold here, with documentation and shipping handled by the studio.
“The pencil did not care where I was. It only cared what I could see in my head.”
— Valentino Dixon