Piece description from the artist
Abstract human torso in an ombre chakra chroma embodies earth. When turned end to end, reveals the landscape, within This Side of the Sun, and Other Side of the Moon. Ribs form ridgeline trees, arms float between earth and sky at each horizon. Chakra colors above and below the heart (cool and warm) connect the body earth and spirit.
OIl paint with palette knife, willow charcoal, oil paint stick on gallery wrap canvas
40" x 60", each canvas 40" x 30" shown as torso
30" x 80" as landscape
I painted this landscape, initially horizontal as a landscape. In process, I turned the canvases on end. Feeling myself, my body, my spine along the divide between the two vertical canvases, I completed the painting embodied. Trauma causes us to leave our bodies. After the attack in my studio 35 years ago, this painting brought me home.
This is a TurningArt exclusive limited edition print available in editions of 100.
With a trowel-size palette knife and willow twigs, Dorothy Fagan expresses the rejuvenating relationship with her beloved garden by the pond. Each painting begins in the garden as deep emotional colors stroke passions with thick impasto paint. As her botanical essences take form, the artist’s hand draws automatic writing from earth spirit with willow charcoal.
The drawing painting fusion enacts the human nature connection. Colorful emotions grounded by charred wood drawings creates the color alchemy, repeating nature’s restorative process of renewal and rejuvenation.
Dorothy Fagan holds a B.F.A. in printmaking and painting from East Carolina University, and completed a ten- year mentorship with Robert Bowers Mayo in American Masters Painting. Fagan's paintings are collected by hospitals, institutions, and corporations in the United States and abroad, including Musee de La Grande Vigne, City University of New York, Camp Lejeune Mental Health Center, and Vir Biotechnology.
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