SCENIC VIEW OF THE BLUE RIDGE (2006) Painting by Lee J. Nixon

Lee Nixon is an artist who teaches. If you attended Orange County High School,
chances are good that Lee Nixon was your art teacher. A native of Orange County,
Lee J. Nixon received his Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education from Virginia State University in 1975. He taught at Daniel Morgan Middle School in Winchester, Virginia for five years. While there, he served on a committee for the annual Fine Arts Festival that involved all of the area schools. In 1980, Lee returned to Orange, to teach at Orange County High School where he initiated an annual Arts and Science Festival, which continued until recently. His own work, which includes painting and creating textural surfaces, has been exhibited numerous galleries including the Science Museum of Virginia, Upstairs Gallery, and the Orange Arts Center. The Artist: Nixon works primarily in acrylics for their versatility and compatibility with other media. His Impressionist paintings reflect a need, care, and reverence for a serene earth, and the desire to share it with the viewer through color, pattern, and texture. The finished work is the culmination of several underpaintings, overpaintings, numerous glazes and other refinements until the work is completed. .

• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : 1951
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary American Artists