A Dreamer Dorothy Fagan believes the landscape is a mirror of our own inner landscape ~ each of us charged with intense color, great depth and passion.  She paints “to provide a window to her own soul” and in the process opens a conversation which enables others to see themselves as well.

A Plein Air Painter Dorothy paints in oil and pastel on location en plein air and in her glass-walled studio by the pond. She can walk to the Chesapeake Bay from her studio in southern Virginia. She is known for her color. A colorist who sees light in dark places; she paints to enable others to see what she sees ~ brilliance and joy in every subject.

Trained by the Masters After earning her B. F. A. from East Carolina University in Printmaking and Painting with Don Sexauer and Ed Reep, she completed a ten-year Painting Mentorship in American Impressionist Painting with Robert B. Mayo, Valentine Museum and Gallery Mayo. She learned to think for herself ~ developing her own unique Color Sensing Technique over the past thirty years. She has written three books; The Suncatcher, Ping Journal and Dinner with the Muse.

She entertains with her unique ability to juxtapose dream interpretations with real life inspiration. Her skilled writing and story telling engage us in dreaming along with her ~ and in seeing ourselves through her enlightening vision.

Collections Her work has been featured in two PBS specials and is included in over two hundred private collections in the U. S., England, Lebanon and Canada. Her paintings are in the collections of the City University of New York, General Electric, First National Exchange Bank, International Paper,  Emory University, Longwood College, Monarch Bank, Towne Bank, AAA and Coldwell Banker.

Juried Exhibitions She was the first Virginian elected to the Pastel Society of America. Dorothy’s paintings have been included in juried exhibitions there and at the Pastel Society of Canada, The National Arts Club, American Artists Professional League, G. V. W. Smith Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Virginia Contemporary Museum of Art, Salmagundi Club, the Copley Society, Kansas Pastel Society, the Hermitage Museum, New Jersey Institute of Technology and others.