Dorothy Fagan is an American painter whose work emerges from a sustained, decades-long engagement with the landscapes of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Fagan works from her pond landscape, creating life-size paintings that function as mirrors of an energetic, physical connection to the earth.

Fagan holds a BFA in Printmaking and Painting from East Carolina University. Her training in printmaking sharpened an early attentiveness to drawing, texture, and layered surfaces, which expanded organically throughout the late 1970s and 1980s as she produced pastel landscapes across Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York.

Fagan’s work is held in private, corporate, and institutional collections in the United States and internationally, including the Musée de La Grande Vigne, City University of New York, Camp Lejeune Mental Health Center, and Vir Biotechnology.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

New Earth Healing Art: Beyond the Garden Wall

I embody the landscape as I paint. At the sacred site where woodland streams flow from their Appalachian source — through my Virginia studio by the pond — downstream to the Atlantic, I create life-size expressionist paintings and textiles that offer healing color and light.

Channeling emotions into vibrant chakra colors with thick, impasto palette knife strokes, I ground the healing energy with gritty, willow charcoal drawings. Juxtaposing earth and sky colors, I help viewers regulate their nervous system, spark their spirit and uplift their heart as they mix colors in the mind’s eye.