The children of the late Dixie Burrus Browning, who died June 11, 2024, invite family, friends, and the art-loving public to join them on Sat., Oct. 26 any time between 1:00 and 4:00 pm to pay tribute to this much-loved Hatteras Island native and highly-regarded artist and novelist.
This event, which will be held in the social hall of Our Lady of the Seas Catholic Parish in Buxton, NC, will give attendees an opportunity to share their memories of Dixie and to support three of her favorite local charities through the purchase of her paintings, dozens of which will be on display. All the proceeds from the painting sales and people’s personal donations will go to Hatteras Island Meals, Hatteras Island Cancer Foundation, and Cape Hatteras United Methodist Men, non-profits that Dixie generously supported before her death in June.
As both a successful, award-winning painter and a prolific novelist, Dixie contributed much to the cultural fabric of her community and to North Carolina as well. In 2016, she was recognized by the governor for these outstanding achievements when he conferred on her the state’s highest honor: induction into The Order of the Long Leaf Pine.
Dixie was a versatile painter, who worked as expertly with oil and acrylic as she did with her favorite medium, watercolor. While serving as the first president of the North Carolina Watercolor Society, she helped advance the work of other watercolorists throughout the state while she continued to produce award-winning paintings that can be found in private and corporate collections across the US.
In the middle of her lifelong journey as a painter, Dixie took a detour into romance writing, eventually publishing over 100 books for Silhouette and Harlequin before returning to her first love, that of recreating in watercolor images of her beloved Hatteras and the North Carolina countryside.
