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Dorothy Fagan

Cobbs Creek, VA

About Dorothy Fagan

Cobbs Creek, VA

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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Selected Exhibitions

  • Milan Fasion Week DressME 202 , MADS Gallery
    Milan, Italy, 2020
  • Peninsula Fine Art Center
    Newport News, VA, 2019
  • Abbaye de Lehon
    Lehon, France, 2019
  • Musee de La Grande Vigne
    Dinan, France, 2014
  • The Copley Society, Pastel Society of America Members’ Exhibition,
    Boston, MA, 1984
  • Virginia Contemporary Museum of Art, Virginia Beach, VA
    Virginia Contemporary Museum of Art, Virginia Beach, VA, 1983
  • New Jersey Institute of Technology, Pastel Society of America Members’ Exhibition,
    Newark, NJ, 1982
  • Hermitage Museum, Pastel Society of America Members’ Exhibition,
    Norfolk, VA, 1982
  • G.V.W. Smith Art Museum, National Juried Exhibition,
    Springfield, MA, 1982
  • American Artists Professional League, National Juried Exhibition, Salmagundi Club,
    New York, NY, 1982
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Prints & Drawings ’81 National Juried Exhibition,
    Richmond, VA, 1981
  • Pastel Society of Canada, International Juried Exhibition, Cambrian Rose Gallery,
    Ottawa, CA, 1980
  • Pastel Society of America, National Juried Exhibition, National Arts Club,
    New York, NY, 1979

Press and Accolades

  • Art Ideal / Circle Foundation
    2020
  • Coda Magazine / Magic of Color
    January 2023
  • DressME2020 / Exhibition Review
    Sept 2020

Education

  • Robert Bowers Mayo Gallery, Masters Painting Mentorship
    Richmond, Virginia,1990 
  • East Carolina University, BFA
    Greenville, North Carolina,1972 
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