dOROTHY fAGAN | expressionist fine art Paintings & Textiles
Healing Art for the Meadow of Life
Oyster & Pearl: The Watershed
As AI data centers threaten the aquifer, artist Dorothy Fagan invites people into her world: as an oyster embedded in brackish waters of the pond beside her Cobbs Creek, Virginia studio — to discover a healing art partnership with aquaculture.
After fifty years of filtering the grit of life, Fagan’s Watershed Portfolio demonstrates how people can claim ownership of their own pearls of wisdom from the aquifer. A working library of art to create sanctuary, regulate the nervous system, and align with nature's vibrant energy..
The Crossing: Coming Home
Step into The Crossing: Coming Home, a pandemic-inspired, 8-canvas mural painting that depicts a sparkling blue teal river flowing diagonally across the lower four canvases. Standing in front of the ten-foot wide painting, one automatically aligns with the last standing purple pine in the woodlands.
Stepping across, one willingly chooses to stop pining in the would-lands and claim a place — flourishing in the meadow on the other side. The rules of creativity reverse in the meadow, expressing colorful emotions from the heart first — before drawing the line.
Heart Expression: Before Drawing the line
The artist’s Splash Scribble™ method demonstrates how she healed life-threatening trauma, regulated her nervous system, and reclaimed the pearls created from the grit of her own experiences. She develped the New Earth Healing Palette™, translating chakra wavelengths into colors for art and decor.
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The Aquifer: Restored Harmony
In The Aquifer mural, Fagan envisions a new earth relationship for humans wherein creative resources are embodied and shared. The abstract expressionist, earth sky water triptych painting depicts the flow from the highlands source, through lush blooming meadows, along-side a vibrant flowing river.
Her mixed media, oil, and pastel paintings portray the aquaculture of embodied landscape from the Appalachian highlands, through woodland streams to the pond beside her studio in Cobbs Creek, Virginia. Located at the mouth of the Piankatank River, where Hills Bay joins the Chesapeake Bay, Fagan’s studio became the vortex, connecting her via Queen’s Creek with the aquaculture that embodies her art.
All There Is, Beyond Dreams
An expansive Atlantis view of the Chesapeake Bay portal is portrayed in two paintings; All There Is, and Beyond Dreams. The sky opens with buttery palette knife strokes of ethereal colors, and fills a peaceful sanctuary with light. Strokes of hot pink, teal, and green in the foreground marsh reflect human vitality, and divine feminine harmony.
Flourishing in the Meadow of Life
Painting with emotional colors, Fagan digs deeply with impasto oil paint, her trowel-size palette knife, and twigs of willow charcoal. Embodying aquaculture, she senses the landscape in those quiet moments. She feels the watershed within, flooding her senses with with the cosmos, and here on earth, flourishing in the meadow of life.
In this time of great global transformation, we now create powerfully through unity. Fagan opens her studio art practice to you with this co-creative studio project to blossom your creative heart.
Track from seed to blossom in 60 days, as I plant, paint, and harvest in real time.