Dixie Rogers began her art career early, winning best of show at the age of 17, in the Arkansas Young Artist Exhibition. She continued with a college art degree then began a career in graphic design and illustration. Always feeling she was a painter at heart, she finally left the advertising realm and went full circle--back to her 1 love of painting in oils. "I feel that people should pursue their talents. Mine is painting." She has traveled to Italy and studied the work of the great masters. "This is what moves me" she states. Caravaggio, Michelangelo and da Vinci are among some of her artistic influences. A passion for the human figure and the dramatic use of chiaroscuro sets her work apart and makes it timeless.